Big American History 1 Final Review

What is the idea of Popular Sovereignty? ( Douglas supported it in his debates with Lincoln).

Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet declaring that the colonies should break away?

What did the Emancipation of Proclamation actually do?

Louis and Clarke would explore the Louisiana Purchase area. What did their journey provide?

1857 court case denied slaves the right to sue, and stated that they were in fact property?

He was the advocate for public education. Saying it was the great equalizer in society.

France would join the USA in an alliance after this major victory in the Revolutionary War?

William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper?

85 Essays supporting a stronger more centralized government.

Famous large meeting of ladies supporting equal rights and suffrage for women?

Amendment dealing with Search and Seizure: Warrant or Probable Cause?

The USA passed the Alien and Seditions Acts after this political incident with France.

Which state came into the nation as a free state in 1850 due to the Gold Rush?

Started by Hamilton, Pres. Jackson felt this was only serving the rich and destroyed it?

Union plan to prevent the south from gaining outside supplies support during the Civil War?

Revolt over federal taxation that tested Pres. Washington. He used troops to stop this revolt

Which was NOT a border state in the Civil War?

Which Amendment dealt with freedom of speech, press, religion, and peaceful assembly?

The Cherokees and Seminoles were removed from their lands by Jackson under the?

What action did Jefferson, as President, take to protect American shipping/neutrality?

There were those who did NOT want to break away from England during the Revolution?

This Amendment ended slavery everywhere in the US in 1865?

This Indian leader would get the Brits to pass the Proclamation of 1763 due to his raids?

Which immigrants from Asia were known to have worked on the Transcontinental Railroad?

Pres. Washington mentioned this in his farewell address to Congress?

The War Hawks, prior to the War of 1812, wanted a war due to...?

Segregations laws (nicknamed) in many southern states were called?

In the Dec. of Indp. according to Thomas Jefferson (via John Locke) Power is derived from the?

The British captured American sailors and forced them to work on British ships. (War of 1812)

What impact did the French and Indian War have on the British Colonies?

What triggered South Carolina leaving the Union and the start of the Civil War?

This Amendment gave former slaves US citizenship?

Trivia: A northerner who moves south to gain lands, jobs, etc. after the Civil War?

Famous picture representing westward expansion?

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

The Mayflower Compact important in US History in that?

Many immigrants in the 1840s did which of the following?

in the 1828 election, what did you not have to have to vote. (Andrew Jackson was elected)

The Underground Railroad was...?

General Lee would surrender to General Grant ending the Civil War at?

What did the USA get out of the War of 1812?

Which "Amendment" did the Alien and Sedition Acts technically break?

John Winthrop and this very religious group would found Mass. Bay Area for religious freedom?

Why did the USA and Mexico get into a war in 1846?

Division line between slave and free states established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

The Quasi War was an undeclared war between the US and ? do to our not supporting our alliance

When different parts of the USA started looking after regional interests and not national ones.

This stated that slavery would not be allowed in lands gained in the Mexican War.

His raid on Harper's Ferry was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt in the South?

Act impacted: Tea, Glass, Paper, Paint and Lead?

Known as the Great Compromiser due to his 1820 and 1850 compromises between the north and south

What Civil War Union general would burn, in his march to the sea, much of Georgia? War is Hell

Lincoln had stated that his first goal, as president, was too?

The Sons of Liberty was a group that?

What did Andrew Jackson do when South Carolina claimed "nullification" over new tariff laws.

What did the South get out of the Compromise of 1850?

Which "Act" closed Boston Harbor after the famous Tea Party?

Which rebellion proved that the Articles of Confederation were too weak?

Which Amendment dealt with due process of law, double jeopardy, self incrimination?

What two states came in (one slave and one free) in 1820 Compromise due to Henry Clay?

First shots of the American Revolutionary War?