APUSH Sem 1 Jeopardy

Colonies in this region developed an economy around slavery and tobacco

Chesapeake

One foundation of US religious liberty was this 1649 Maryland Law

Toleration Act

These laws sought to regulate trade for the benefit of the British

Navigation Acts

This religious event broke down traditional barriers between Protestant groups

Great Awakening

The costs associated with this conflict of the 1750s and 1760s were a major cause of the American Revolution.

French and Indian War, Seven Years War, or Great War for Empire

The failure to settle this question, resulting from the Mexican War, created the crisis that became the civil war

should slavery expand into the far western territories?

After a key invention of the 1790s, slavery came to be closely associated with the production of this valuable US export

cotton

His attempt in 1859 to ignite a slave rebellion in the South created further distrust between North and South

John Brown

This Northern political party grew out of Democratic and Whig hostility to the Kansas-Nebraska act, as well as the ideas of the Free Soil Party

Republican Party

First serious challenge to the power of the national government to tax

Whiskey Rebellion

The two political parties that developed during Jackson’s presidency

Democrats and Whigs

Economic crisis that ended Van Buren’s re-election

Panic of 1837

Jackson’s first attempt at the presidency ended in defeat in this election, decided not by the voters, but the house of representatives

election of 1824

The whig party emerged as an organized political party out of the struggle over this government institution

the Second National Bank

Officially, the nullification crisis was about taxation. But federal power regarding this issue was also in the background

slavery

The dominant religion in Colonial New England

Puritanism

Two preachers of the Great Awakening

Edwards, Whitefield, Davenport

Religious revival of the early 19th century led by Charles G Finney, Timothy Dwight, and Lyman Beecher

2nd Great Awakening

According to your textbook, the most important effect of the American Revolution on religion in the US

separation of Church and State

She was expelled from Massachusetts for heresy (preaching a covenant of works), and went on to help found Rhode Island.

Anne Hutchinson

This event marks the end of the Federal Government’s role in reconstruction of the South

Compromise of 1877

Law created by the Republican congress during the Civil War to encourage western settlement by giving land away

Homestead Act

The Congressional Reconstruction plan focused on giving blacks civil and political rights through these two constitutional amendments

14th and 15th

Organization created to assist former slaves in the South—it was the focus of one of the first fights between Johnson and the Congressional Republicans

freedman’s bureau

This law was designed to break down ties between Native Americans and their tribes, and so force assimilation

Dawes Act

These acts passed in the 1600s, sought to limit colonial trade for English benefit

Navigation Acts

According to your textbook, the main effect of the American Revolution on Slavery in the US

abolition in the North

First tax imposed by Parliament on the Colonies that led to widespread public opposition, Parliament repealed it quickly

Stamp Act

A decisive defeat at the hands of the British here forced Washington to devise an entirely new military strategy

New York

The belief that every member of parliament represents the entire empire, not just the district that elected him

virtual representation

The machine made cotton and slavery profitable again

cotton gin

Prior to the railroad, this was the major transportation improvement of the 1820s and 1830s

steamboat or canal

By 1850, this group of people provided the main source of labor for the growing industrial revolution

immigrants

The first American factories appeared in this state soon after the war of 1812

Massachusetts

Any decision by the Supreme court under John Marshall, that limited the power of states to change contracts or regulate federal institutions

Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland

One reason the annexation of TX was controversial

slavery, war with Mexico

The Free soil movement grew out of this proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory gained from Mexico

Wilmot Proviso

Not satisfied with conquering the northern third of Mexico, expansionists in the 1850s demanded this Spanish territory as well.

Cuba

DD William Seward continued the expansionist policy into the 1860s by purchasing this territory from Russia in 1867

Alaska

Jackson’s refusal to enforce the Court’s decision in this case helped force the Cherokee out of Georgia

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, or Worcester v. Georgia

One of the best generals for the Union, he captured Atlanta, and led a march of destruction through GA and SC

William Sherman

DD Division over this law ended the Whig Party, and largely ended the system of two national political parties

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The main southern gain in the Compromise of 1850, the failure of the Northern States to enforce it infuriated the South

Fugitive Slave Act

Although Lincoln had a good grasp of strategic goals, this characteristic of George McClelland and other Northern Generals made the war difficult

hesitation, caution

US Supreme Court decision that allowed Slavery in all US territories´´´´´¨´´Dred

Dred Scot

Jefferson’s controversial, and ultimately ineffective, method of confronting British and French hostility to US trade.´

embargo

Jefferson was forced to use “implied powers” to justify this massive territorial expansion of the US

Louisiana Purchase

name given to Jefferson’s belief that Constitution did not give the Federal government any ‘implied powers”

strict construction

State actions taken by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts

KY and VA resolutions

Thomas Jefferson was NOT against using war to achieve national objectives, as this conflict in North Africa demonstrated

war with Barbary Pirates