1st Semester Review
Gold, Glory, God
What are the main reasons for European voyages of exploration?
1619
When were the first Africans brought to the American colonies?
Mayflower Compact
What was the first democratic document in American History?
City Upon a Hill
What did John Winthrop say the Puritan community would be?
Anne Hutchinson
Who was banished from Massachusetts for preaching antinomianism?
Maryland
Where were Catholics allowed to settle in Colonial America?
Headright System
What incentive was given to those who paid another's passage to the English Colonies?
2nd Great Awakening
What was the major religious revival of the 1820-30’s?
Jonathan Edwards
Who wrote Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God?
James Oglethorpe
Who was the founder of Georgia?
Mercantilism
What was the economic policy of European Colonization?
Leisler’s Rebellion
What was the Dutch New Yorkers reaction to the Glorious Revolution in England?
Bacon’s Rebellion, Regulator War, Paxton Boy’s Uprising
What were examples of the colonial conflict between the east coast (tidewater) region and the western frontier (piedmont) ?
John Peter Zenger
What colonial newspaper publisher was tried for Sedition?
Proclamation of 1763
What British law closed the colonial frontier west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlement?
Salutary Neglect
What phrase best describes the British enforcement of colonial policies before 1763?
James Otis
Who fought against the Writs of Assistance?
Samuel Adams & John Hancock
Who led the rebellion in Massachusetts prior to the American Revolution?
John Dickenson
Which member of the 2nd Continental Congress did not sign the Declaration of Indpendence?
Common Sense
What writing by Thomas Paine convinced American colonists to support independence?
George Rogers Clark
What individual was most responsible for the U.S. acquisition of the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River?
Connecticut Compromise
How did the founding fathers settle the dispute over congressional representation in the Constitutional Convention?
Hamilton, Madison, Jay
Who wrote the Federalists Papers?
Jefferson & Hamilton
Which members of Washington’s cabinet founded the first Political Parties?
Whiskey Tax
What caused Pennsylvania farmers to rebel during Washington’s presidency?
Federalist President
Who was John Adams?
Hardford Convention & The Alien and Sedition Acts
What caused the downfall of the Federalist Party?
Coercive Acts
How did Great Britain punish Boston for their Tea Party?
Shay’s Rebellion
What rebellion convinced the founding fathers to trade the Articles of Confederation for a stronger government?
Elections of 1800 & 1824
What elections were settled by Congressional vote?
Marbury v. Madison
What court ruling by John Marshall established Judicial Review?
Embargo Act
How did Jefferson try to avoid war with England or France?
Lowell, Massachusetts
Where did the factory system begin in the U.S.?
Erie Canal
What was the major transportation route to the Northwest territory?
American System
What was Henry Clay’s plan to build internal improvements?
John C. Calhoun
Which member of the Great Triumvirate defended slavery?
Tariff of Abominations
What caused rebellion in South Carolina in 1828?
Trail of Tears
What was a major effect of the Indian Removal Act?
Nicholas Biddle
Who did Andrew Jackson feud against during the Bank War?
Specie Circular
What policy by Andrew Jackson led to the Panic of 1837?
Whigs
What party was created in opposition to Andrew Jackson?
Dorothea Dix
Who was the reformer to tried to improve the treatment of the mentally ill?
Hudson River School
What was the Romantic art movement in Antebellum America?
George Catlin
What artist lived among the Plains Indians recording in art their lifestyle?
Seneca Falls
Where did the Women’s Rights movement begin?
Nativism
What group opposed immigration & Catholics?
John L. Sullivan
Who coined the phrase Manifest Destiny?
Webster Ashburton Treaty
What agreement settled the Maine border dispute?
540 40’ or Fight
What did expansionists want do over Oregon?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What agreement ended the Mexican War?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Birth of the Republican Party
What was the political impact of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Lecompton Constitution
What document tried to create a pro-slavery government in Kansas?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Henry David Thoreau
Who went to jail for refusing to pay his taxes in a nonviolent protest of the Mexican War?
Lincoln Douglas Debates
What event propelled Lincoln into National Politics?
Walt Whitman
Who wrote the Leaves of Grass?
Andrew Johnson
What President was impeached over feuding with Congress on Reconstruction?
Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner
Who were the leaders of the radical republicans?
Fourteen Amendment
How did African Americans become citizens?