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?