US History 1 Final Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
When the F & I war ended, England had a great deal of | Debt and revenue |
A world power should do what according to mercantilism | According to mercantilism should regulate colonies to enrich mother country |
Religious dissent was least tolerated in which colony | Massachusetts Bay |
If people are committed to ___ no military will ever be able to conquer them | Liberty |
The Intolerable acts of 1774 were passed by parliament because of what? | Boston Tea Party |
The middle passage refers to one aspect of what trade | Slave Trade |
Violation of right to assemble and the press are in the | First Amendment |
Founded Pennsylvania | William Penn |
A government organization with most of the power resting in the state and local governments | Confederation |
For a bill to become a law it needs approval of both houses but cannot become a law without the signature of the | President |
Group of investors outfit colonial expeditions in the early 1600’s | Joint Stock Company |
The two houses of congress were result of _____ between large and small states over the issue of _____ | Compromise, representation |
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson helped establish the principle of | Freedom of Religion |
Jamestown founded primarily for the purpose of: | Making money for the London Company |
Most important reason colonists opposed most of the laws passed by Parliament before the American Revolution | They were not represented (taxation without representation) |
The conflicting claims over this river valley helped cause the french and indian war between France and England | Ohio River valley |
The Great Compromise during the Constitutional Convention settled the struggle between large and small states over: | Representation in Congress |
What occurred between South Carolina seceding and Gettysburg | Emancipation Proclamation |
What divides power between states and national governments? | Federalism |
The colonists received aid and a formal alliance France because of the battle | Battle of Saratoga |
The _____ _____ fed and educated freed slaves | Freedman’s Bureau |
The counting of slaves | ⅗ Compromise |
Congress can only pass those laws allowed by the specific powers granted to congress by the constitution | Strict interpretation or constructionist |
The minimum number of representatives in Congress for each state is ___ with ___ in the Senate and ____ in the House | 3,2,1 |
The supreme court declaring a law unconstitutional is one form of ______ check in the system of checks and balances | Judicial Branch |
The powers congress used to create National Bank | Implied powers |
A federal court has the power to declare an act of the legislative and executive branch if a lawsuit is brought to attention | Judicial Review |
The need for revenue to maintain the expanding empire was a serious problem facing England after what war | French + Indian |
Before 1763 acts like the Navigation Act, Molasses Act and other regulatory laws did not greatly affect the colonies because England practiced what policy up to this time | Salutary Neglect |
The system of checks and balances were established to do what | Evenly distribute power |
What 200 year period of time did English colonization take place | 1600 - 1800 |
The Civil War general who constantly practice extreme caution | McClellan |
Now a weakness of the Articles of confederation | No power to draft citizens to fight in a war |
Reserved powers are reserved for whom | The states |
Awarding jobs to supporters, vetoing the national bank, and ignoring the supreme court are examples of ____ ____ acting like a king | Andrew Jackson |
To begin a practice that is followed thereafter is to set a | Precedent |
The US tried to buy _____, instead they purchased the Louisiana Purchase | New Orleans |
Which war ended in a stalemate with no territory changing hands | War of 1812 |
A protective tariff main purpose is to | Protect American industry |
The system where a winning candidate can appoint supporters to government jobs is called patronage, under president Jackson it was called | Spoils system |
By law, colonies must produce the goods for the mother country that they did not have was called what | Mercantilism |
The result of ⅗ compromise | ⅗ of slaves were counted for both representation and taxation (every 5 slaves was counted as 3) |
What is a judicial check of the legislative branch | Declaring laws unconstitutional |
The group that pushed for the war against Great Britain in 1812 was | War hawks |
What acquisition doubled the size of the United States | The Louisiana Purchase |
Free blacks had to leave Missouri within 2 years - was or was not - a provision of the Missouri Compromise | WAS NOT |
Causes of the War of 1812 EXCEPT: | English encouraging Slave revolts in southern states |
In the early colonies there was tension between societies over culture and land and those societies were the ______ and the ______ | American Indians and European Settlers |
Four Score and 7 years ago (87 years ago) in the Gettysburg Address refers to what? | Declaration |
The woman who was concerned with mental illness was | Dorothea Dix |
What invention greatly increased need for slaves | Cotton Gin |
Manifest Destiny the ‘obvious or undeniable fate’ refers to _____ to the Pacific Coast | Territorial expansion |
The overall goal of the KKK was to | Intimidate freed slaves |
Define a border state | Slave state that stayed in the union (a buffer between the North and the South) |
The commander of the continental army | George Washington |
The years where Manifest Destiny occurred | 1840-1855 |
Which was the first state that seceded from the Union | South Carolina |
The Emancipation Proclamation: | Did not immediately free slaves |
Social reform movements and free public education and demand for factory workers were result of | Industrialization and Immigration |
Congress could not ban slavery anywhere including the territories was a direct result of what decision | Dred Scott (Scott vs Sanford) decision |
When people get to vote to decide for themselves it is called: | Popular sovereignty |
What caused the seven states to secede | Lincoln was elected |
The extension of slavery into the territories was a result of | Republican Party |
The Compromise of 1850 proposed 5 laws, which was most opposed by abolitionists | 5 - the Fugitive Slave law |
The legislative act which demonstrated the problems associated with popular sovereignty and violence broke out | Kansas Nebraska act |
The South’s feeling of isolation from the rest of the nation and the belief that Lincoln was an abolitionist was what led to the: | Secession |
What was Lincoln’s primary purpose in continuing the war as stated in the Gettysburg Address | Restore the Union |
What ended slavery in the United States of America | The 13th amendment |
Which amendment defined citizenship? | The 14th Amendment |
After the civil war black codes were implemented why | Continue whites supremacy over the black |
Major battle July 1863 | Gettysburg |
Which battle was a narrow victory for the North and encouraged Lincoln to issue emancipation proclamation | Battle of Antietam (First battle fought in the North) |
After the civil war the Radical republicans regarded the South as conquered provinces and wanted | Punishment for the war |
The era that introduced power driven machinery was the | Industrial Revolution |
Who are citizens of the United States according to the Constitution? | Anyone born in the US or who is naturalized |
Where was most of the civil war fought? | South |
The reelection of Lincoln was insured by this action by Union general | William Sherman's march to the Sea |
The turning point of the Civil War was the Battle of: | Gettysburg |
Who was the Manifest Destiny President? | James K. Polk |
The division of powers between national and state governments: | Federal system of Government |
______ of _____ spreads authority over the three branches of ________ | Separation of Power; Government |
The battle considered the beginning of the Civil War was ____ ____ | Fort Sumter |
Was an independent country before it became a state? | Texas |
The Confederates surrendered at _________ | Appomattox courthouse |
The area gained by the Mexican Cession | The Southwest |
Extra Information | Examples |
Americans care about other people and will fight for their rights | American Revolution Civil War Opposition to the Indian Removal Act Abolitionists |
America is a religious nation | Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams (Rhode Island for religious freedom) Great Awakenings Massachusetts Bay for Puritans God is in the Declaration Maryland a safe haven for Catholics |
America is dependent on the strengths of the people that came to its shores | Irish immigrants Chinese immigrants Industrializes |
How has America been Imperialistic? | Manifest Destiny Mexican - American War, Mexican Cession Louisiana Purchase |
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