Political
Party
Colonies
Jackson
Early
Government
Cold War
100

The leader of the Federalists Party

Who is Alexander Hamilton?

100

Which of the following was the last battle of the American Revolution?

Yorktown

100

What were the two new political parties that were formed during Jacksonian Democracy?

Whigs and the Know-Nothing

100

Who authored the Bill of Rights?

James Madison

100

What was the Marshall Plan?

The U.S. government providing financial aid to war-torn Europe after WWII

200

The leader of the Democratic-Republicans

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

200

What group would be most inspired by Patrick Henry’s quote, “Give me liberty or give me death!”

Patriots

200

The forced relocation of several Native American groups from their homes on the Atlantic coast to Oklahoma was known as this

What is the Trail of Tears?

200

What was significant about the election of 1800?

It was the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties

200

When did the Cold War end?

1991 

300

Which political party supported the Farmers, artisans, and frontier settlers in the South?

Democratic-Republicans

300

What states made up the Middle Colonies?

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

300

The state that Jackson called in the military against so that they would pay their dues from the Tariff of 1832

What is South Carolina?

300

What were the 1st two political parties in the USA?

Federalists and Democratic-Republicans

300

Winston Churchill used this two-word term to describe the divide between Eastern and Western Europe

What is the Iron Curtain?

400

Which political party opposed the spread of slavery?

Republican party

400

The New England colonies were settled primarily by

people seeking religious freedom

400

Jackson personified the “democratic spirit” of the age by challenging economic elites and rewarding campaign supporters with public office through what became known as this

What is the spoils system?

400

Which of the following won the presidential election of 1800?

Thomas Jefferson

400

This French word describes Nixon's decreasing of tensions between the US and USSR/China during the 1970s

What is detente?

500

This Federalist President was the first to peacefully transfer power to a rival political party after the election of 1800 between him and Thomas Jefferson

Who is John Adams?

500

Why is the Battle of Saratoga considered the turning point of the American Revolution?

It convinced the French to ally with the Patriots.

500

The changing character of American politics in the “age of the common man” saw increased this

What is voter participation?

500

The Three-Fifths Compromise provided that for purposes of representation in the ________________, enslaved persons would each be counted as three-fifths and added to the free population of the state.

House of Representatives

500

What was the U.S. policy during the Cold War?

Truman Doctrine; “containment of communism”; not to roll communism back but to keep it from spreading