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American Revolution
The Constitution
Jefferson Era
Manifest Destiny
Civil War
100
Volunteer soldiers who were ready to fight in a moments notice.
What are Minutemen?
100
Government's power is shared equally between a national government and several local governments.
What is Federalism?
100
The right of the Supreme Court to determine if a law violates the Constitution.
What is Judicial Review?
100
The belief that Americans were meant to control all the land from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean, "from sea to shining sea".
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
Civil War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
These colonists were loyal to the King of England, George III, during the revolutionary war. They did not want Independence.
Who are the Loyalists?
200
System designed to keep any 1 branch of government from becoming to powerful.
What are Check and Balances?
200
The right to sail the seas and not take sides in a war.
What are Neutral Rights?
200
The first pioneers west; hunters and fur trappers who "discovered" Native American trails today known as the Oregon Trail and Santa Fe Trail.
Who are Mountain Men?
200
A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
American colonists who were undetermined to fight the British until the American Independence was won.
Who are the Patriots?
300
Idea that government is not all powerful. It is limited by the People and by the Constitution.
What is Limited Government?
300
Similar to a pirate but instead receive a "letter of marque" from a nation in order to legalize their piracy against other nations ships.
What are Privateers?
300
2000 mile journey from Independence, Missouri to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Oregon Trial?
300
A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance of power.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
War between Britain vs. France and the Indians over disputed territory in the Americas.
What is The French and Indian War?
400
States that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land.
What is Supremacy Clause?
400
Republicans during Madison's presidency who pressed for war with Britain.
What are War Hawks?
400
People who flocked to California in search of gold after it was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848.
Who are the 49ers?
400
Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
British red coats open fire on a colonial mob in self defense which resulted in 5 colonial casualties. This event would further resentment against the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
500
Guaranteed by the 5th Amendment. The process that government must go through before depriving a person of their life, liberty, or property.
What is Due Process?
500
Loyalty to a nation and promotion of its interests above all others.
What is Nationalism?
500
Christians that settled in Utah to escape persecution.
Who are the Marmons?
500
Successful Union general who attended West Point Military Academy; against slavery.
What is Ulysses S. Grant?