JeopardyFoundations of the U. S

Political System/ Foreign Policy

North/South1800-1850

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Reconstruction& Industrial America

Civil War

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This document was signed on July 4, 1776

$100 Foundations of the U. S

Declaration of Independence

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What are the three unalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence?

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Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

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This system was America’s first attempt at self-government. It created a loose union of states under a weak government.

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Articles of Confederation

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The Constitution organizes the U.S. government into these three branches of government

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Legislative, Judicial, and Executive

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These amendments are intended to guarantee fair treatment for people who are involved in legal actions

$500 Foundations of the U. S

5th - 8th Amendments

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In this year delegates gathered for the Constitutional Convention

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1787

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This rebellion was a challenge to the new nation’s ability to enforce laws

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The Whiskey Rebellion

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Differences between these two men led to the formation of two political parties

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Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

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He was the Chief Justice who led the Supreme Court in McCullough v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden.

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John Marshall

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This is the policy that a country should not make alliances with foreign countries.

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Isolationism

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These are two means of transportation that were developed in the Northeast.

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Steamboat or railroads or canals

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Between 1800 and 1850, new immigrants came to the Northeast United States from these two countries.

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Germany and Ireland

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This was the proposal of women’s rights that was introduced at the Seneca Falls Convention

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Declaration of Sentiments

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These are two states in which cotton was grown

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Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,Georgia, South Carolina, orTexas

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These two enslaved men led slave revolts.

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Denmark Vesey &Nat Turner

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This term means the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs. (Hint: Andrew Jackson followed this policy)

$100 The West

Spoils system

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It began with the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831, and culminated with the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation.

$200 The West

The Trail of Tears

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This is the belief that it was America’s right and duty to spread across the North American continent.

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Manifest Destiny

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She taught sewing to local Native Americans

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Annie Bidwell

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These two states were acquired as part of the Mexican Cession

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California and New Mexico

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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820

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The Kansas-Nebraska act

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This term means the act of withdrawing from an organization or alliance, such as the withdrawal of the southern states from the Union

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Secession

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This was the first battle of the Civil War

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Fort Sumter

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President Lincoln issued this document after the Battle of Antietam.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Abraham Lincoln gave this speech after an especially devastating battle. The speech supported the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and contains the immortal phrase, “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

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The Gettysburg Address

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During Congressional Reconstruction, this president was impeached.

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Andrew Jackson

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They provided food and medical care to both blacks and whites in the South

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Freedman’s Bureau

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These laws re-established segregation

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Jim Crow laws

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This term refers to the birth and growth of businesses that make and distribute products through the use of machinery.

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Industrialization

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These two men made massive fortunes in industry.

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John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.

Final Jeopardy

A philosophy which taught that people should transcend logical thinking to reach true understanding with the help of emotion and intuition

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Transcendentalism

Final Jeopardy

This was the Catholic Church’s response to the Reformation, when they corrected some of the abuses of the medieval Church.

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Progressive Movement