Unit 2

Who establishes the first precedent of forming a cabinet of advisors? (Day 21)

First Cabinet: Who was the Secretary of State (the one who manages foreign affairs)? (Day 21)

First Cabinet: Who was the Secretary of Treasury (the one who manages finances)? (Day 21)

Paying bondholders what they're owed, having state debts assumed to create a whole national debt and the birth of the Bank of the United States; who came up with this plan to deal with debt? (known as the Report on the Public Debt) (Day 21)

Limiting what the Federal government can do depending on what is in the Constitution, as well as limiting their power; what type of interpretation on the construction of the Constitution is this? (Day 21)

Allowing the Federal government powers unless the Constitution forbids it, as well as expanding their power; what type of interpretation on the construction of the Constitution is this? (Day 21)

What was one of the First political parties called? (supported a diversified economy, a strong national government, had support in New England, had good relations with Great Britain, and preferred rule by elites; led by supporters of Alexander Hamilton) (Day 21)

What was the political party that opposed the Federalist Party called? (supported an Agrarian society, a weak national government, had support in the South and West, wanted good relations with France, and preferred rule by the common people; led by supporters of Thomas Jefferson) (Day 21)

What was the rebellion in which farmers refused to pay taxes so much that they beat up federal marshals (and a militia of 13,000 is sent with Washington's orders to collect taxes from Pennsylvania) called? (incited on an excise tax on whiskey) (Day 21)

What is a tax on an imported good called? (Day 21)

Name the revolution in which the monarchy was overthrown and in turn, France is seen declaring war on all other monarchies (including Great Britain). (Day 22)

What side does Washington decide to take on the French Revolution (due to tariffs with Great Britain), and what does Great Britain do in response? (Day 22)

Name the treaty in which the British agree to leave our forts northwest, but our trade is restricted, we have to pay prewar debts, and the British can still impress our soldiers (Day 22)

Name the treaty that was negotiated between Thomas Pinckney and Spain in which the U.S. gained access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans (Day 22)

What does Washington warn us against in his Farewell Speech? (Day 22)

Who seizes over 300 of our ships and throws the crew in dungeons over the opposition to Jay's Treaty and Jefferson's loss of the Presidency to John Adams? What does John Adams do in response? (Day 22)

What do the French do that upsets the U.S.? (Day 22)

What act made it harder to obtain U.S. citizenship and made deporting people easier? (Day 22)

What act made it so you could be thrown into jail for speaking out against the government? (Day 22)

What is the idea that states have the right to ignore any act of Congress that they may consider unconstitutional? (examples of this are in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions) (Day 22)

What war leads to treaty signed with France, the splitting of the Federalist party, and the annuling of the Franco-American Treaty of 1788? (Day 22)

What case established judicial review (the Supreme Court could declare a law unconstitutional)? (Day 23)

What does Napoleon sell for $15 million that doubles the size of the U.S.? (Day 23)

Who was sent to explore new territory, securing the claim of Oregon? (Day 23)

What ship was attacked by a British frigate? (Day 23)

What act ended trade with all foreign nations which devastated the American economy and had to rely on military involvement to be enforced? (Day 23)

Who wants the U.S. to declare war and get Britain out of North America? (Day 23)

Convention in which federalist leaders discussed wanting more power for northern states as well as secession from the U.S. (Day 23)

Battle in which Francis Scott Key felt inspire to write the Star-Spangled Banner (Day 23)

Battle in which Andrew Jackson defeats the British army for attacking New Orleans (Day 23)

Who created the 3 part plan to make the U.S. economically independent? (involves a protective tariff, a 2nd Bank of the U.S. and internal improvements) (Day 24)

What treaty led to the U.S. acquiring Florida as a territory? (Day 24)

What amendment restricted import of slaves in Missouri and allowed slaves freedom when they reached the age of 25? (Day 24)

What compromise determined the status of Missouri and Maine (in terms of being a free or slave state)? (Day 24)

What case determined whether the national bank could be taxed? (Day 24)

What case decided that the Federal government were the only ones that could regulate interstate commerce?

What doctrine determined whether any new European colonies could be established in the New World (as well as declared that the U.S. won't intervene with existing European colonies or their affairs)? (Day 24)

What was born from Andrew Jackson's win at the presidency? (Day 24)

What tariff was aimed at discrediting John Quincy Adams in which it was imposed on raw materials and British textiles? (Day 24)

What nullifies the Tariff of 1828? (Day 24)

What act led to the Trail of Tears, in which congress ordered First Nations to relocate west of the Mississippi River to "avoid their extinction"? (Day 24)

What political party was formed in opposition of Andrew Jackson? (believes in public education and science, supports Federalist values, want social and more reform, and believes that the government should help the community) (Day 24)

What causes Irish populations to migrate to the U.S. during the 1840s? (Day 25)

What is an opposition to immigration? (Day 25)

What party was formed in opposition to Irish immigration? (Day 25)

What canal connects New York City to Great Lakes? (Day 25)

What invention allowed for instant communication via Morse code? (Day 25)

What inventions did Eli Whitney make? (one allowed for large amounts of cotton to be processed and the other helped Northern industry) (Day 25)

What series of rules forbade the discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives (thought that the discussion of it would encourage rebellions)? (Day 25)

What system involves the enslaved to be given a specific task in which they could work on their own when they finish? (Day 25)

What system involves dividing the enslaved into specific gangs to work from sunrise to sunset? (Day 25)

Who led the most famous revolt (in which killed 55 white men, women, and children)? (said to have been done due to the issues with slavery, not treatment) (Day 25)

Who noted that liberty depended on one power fighting the other and that the sexes had "separate spheres" (woman's place in the home; men's place is outside)? (Day 27)

Who emphasized a person's personal role in their salvation (during the Second Great Awakening)? (Day 27)

Who started Mormonism in NY in 1830? (Day 27)

What are those who followed Ann Lee (thought she was the female Christ) and live with no marriage, no sex and social equality called? (Day 27)

Who was the leader of Transcendentalism (an intellectual movement in New England in which people wanted to transcend reason)? (Day 27)

Who promoted the idea of the public school system and teaching training (believed that good public schools would train their students to be socially stable and provide them equal opportunity)? (Day 27)

Who led the reform efforts for prisons and asylums (helped lead to mental hospitals due to her exposing of the abuse and neglect of the insane)? (Day 27)

What movement wanted to send enslaved people to Africa (as a way to deal with slavery)? (Day 27)

Name two important spokespeople for abolitionism (one was a former slave and the other preached in support of this and women's rights)? (Day 27)

What is the belief that it was God's will that the U.S. expand to the Pacific? (Day 29)

What trail was led to travel to the west coast (in which many died to exposure to disease and First Nation attacks)? (Day 29)

Who was offered land by Mexico to establish a colony in 1821? (Day 29)

Who rises up in power as a dictator in Mexico that causes 10 states in Mexico (including Texas) to revolt in 1835? (Day 29)

What is the name of the mission occupied by Texans in San Antonio in which Santa Anna killed all of its defenders and burned their bodies? (Day 29)

What battle leads to the signing of the Treaty of Velasco in 1836 which warranted Texas' independence? (Day 29)

Who did President Polk send to disputed area between Nueces and Rio Grande (was attacked by Mexican army)? (Day 29)

What U.S. general outfought Santa Anna and captured the Mexican capital on September 1847? (Day 29)

What treaty gave us the Mexican Cession territories of Texas (north of RIo Grande), New Mexico and California? (Day 29)

What purchase was made from Mexico to build a transcontinental railroad? (Day 29)

What might lead to Civil War? (Day 29)

What compromise prevented the start of the Civil War by declaring California a free state whilst strengthening fugitive slave laws? (Day 30)

What is the name of the act in which anyone u der the law was required to return freed slaves back to their owners? (Day 30)

What is the name of the Abolitionist network that helped the enslaved escape to the North and to Canada? (Day 30)

What is the name of the most famous conductor in the Underground Railroad? (She led a military expedition during the Civil War and led a raid that freed 700 enslaved persons) (Day 30)

What novel made slavery a more moral issue than a political issue for many Northerners? (Day 30)

What act established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska in which popular sovereignty allowed voters in each territory to decide if slavery should be allowed)? (Day 30)

What political party is formed to oppose the expansion of slavery? (Day 30)

What case was fought by an enslaved man for his freedom (he felt that if he was in free territory then he should be free; he lost the case and was freed eventually by new owners)? (Day 30)

What political party splits over the 1860 election? (Day 30)

Who's the first state to secede (seceded December 1860)? (Day 30)

Who is appointed the President of the Confederate States of America (C.S.A)? (Day 30)

What does April 12, 1862 mark? Where? (Day 30)

What are these states? (they remained loyal to the Union even though they had slave states): MO, KY, MD, and DE (Day 31)

What battle was lost by the Union army which forced them to retreat to D.C.? (Day 31)

What is the name of Winfield Scott's plan to defeat the Confederacy? (Wanted the Army of the Potomac to defend D.C. and threaten Richmond, wanted the Navy to blockade Southern ports and wanted to capture the Mississippi River to divide the South in half) (Day 31)

What marked the first battle with ironclads, a battle in which the U.S. Navy built a secret weapon? (the battle was a draw) (Day 31)

What commander of the Confederate army defeats the Union army in VA? (Day 31)

What was the the bloodiest single day in U.S. history, a battle that ended in a draw? (Day 31)

Who helped found the American Red Cross? (Day 32)

What is issued after the Battle of Antietam? (declared all enslaved people rebelling against the U.S. to be set free) (Day 32)

What battle marked the defeat of Robert E. Lee? (Day 32)

What is the name of Lincoln's speech calling for citizens to honor the dead by rededicating themselves to restoring the Union and ending slavery? (Day 32)

What battle marked the last obstacle needed for Union control of the Mississippi River? (Day 32)

Who does Lincoln put in charge of the U.S. Army? (Day 32)

What is the name of the first black regiment and what did they try to capture? (Day 32)

Who came up with the plan to command the Army of the Potomac to attack Robert E. Lee while William T. Sherman takes over the western army to rip apart the South? (Day 32)

Who marches from Atlanta to Savannah, destroying Confederate Army supplies in hopes of destroying their morale? (Day 32)

What is considered to be the end of the Civil War? (Day 32)

What did the Republican Congress establish to provide assistance to freed enslaved people in terms of food, clothing, care, education and legal advice? (Day 33)

When was the 13th Amendment ratified? (made slavery unconstitutional) (Day 33)

Who wanted to bring the nation back together quickly as a way to treat the South? (Day 33)

Who wanted to dismantle the planter class and the Democratic Party, as well as full equality for freed enslaved as a way to treat the South? (Day 33)

Who assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theater (making him the first president to be assassinated)? (Day 33)

What are introduced as means to restrict the freedmen? (Day 33)

What is passed in 1866 to counteract the Black Codes in the South? (Day 33)

What does the Fourteenth Amendment grant? (Day 33)

What act placed Southern states (excluding TN) under military control until they created new state constitutions with suffrage for blacks as well as the ratification of the 14th Amendment? (Day 33)

What is a northern Republican who moved south after the war (some for economic opportunity , some to help freed enslaved people)? (Day 33)

What is a southern Republican who supported Reconstruction? (Day 33)

What does the 15th Amendment grant? (Day 33)

Name the scandal in which corrupt politicians kept taxes on whiskey for themselves (Day 33)

Name the scandal in which a railroad company created a fake construction company to charge others with outrageous fees to line their pockets (Day 33)

Name the organization that aimed to intimidate Republicans (both black and white) in the South to keep them from voting (Day 33)

Name the event that set off a 6-year depression (Day 33)

Name the compromise that marks the end of Reconstruction in which Rutherford B. Hayes agrees to pull troops from the South to gain their electoral votes (Day 33)

Term for the fact that the South always votes for a Democrat (Day 33)

What system involves people working in land for to receive half of their crops, a system in which they have to borrow money for supplies and they sell their crops at the end of the season, which starts the cycle back up as a result of the debts they have to pay off? (Day 33)

What term describes leader in southern politics after Reconstruction? (Day 33)

What are segregation laws better known as (based off of a minstrel song in which they believed that what they were doing was a reflection of black culture)? (Day 33)

What are these methods of? (Poll Tax: a tax on voting, A Literacy Test to prove you could read the Constitution, and the Grandfather Clause in which if your grandfather was enslaved you couldn’t vote) (Day 33)

What case upheld the values of segregation? (stating that separate facilities are constitutional on the basis that they’re equal) (Day 33)