Elections & Courts
These two candidates tied in electoral votes in 1800. Name both.
Who are Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr?
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States and included New Orleans.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This American general won the Battle of New Orleans and became a national hero.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This 1819 treaty transferred Florida from Spain to the United States.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
This 1823 policy warned European nations against new colonization and interference in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This amendment required separate electoral votes for president and vice president after the election of 1800.
What is the 12th Amendment?
This Shoshone woman helped Lewis and Clark explore western lands as an interpreter and guide.
Who is Sacagawea?
This U.S. military leader is associated with the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, before the War of 1812.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
The Convention of 1818 set the northern boundary to the Rocky Mountains along this numbered parallel.
What is the 49th parallel?
The Monroe Doctrine focused on this hemisphere, which includes North and South America.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
This outgoing president made the last-minute judicial appointments that helped cause Marbury v. Madison.
Who is John Adams?
Jefferson hoped the Embargo Act would pressure Britain and France. This was its major effect on American merchants and the economy.
What is severe economic harm from lost foreign trade?
Name TWO British actions that helped cause the War of 1812.
What are impressment of American sailors and restrictions on American trade?
Explain why Spain was willing to cede Florida to the United States.
Spain struggled to control Florida and wanted to secure its remaining holdings.
While warning Europe away from independent American nations, the United States promised this about European political affairs.
It would stay out of European affairs.
A court declares a law unconstitutional. Name this power AND the 1803 Supreme Court case that established it.
What are judicial review and Marbury v. Madison?
Jefferson sent the navy against the Barbary pirates to protect this activity and resist this kind of payment demand. Name both.
What are American commerce (trade) and tribute?
Name the 1814 treaty that ended the War of 1812, describe its territorial result, and name one major issue it left unsettled.
What is the Treaty of Ghent? It restored prewar boundaries and did not settle impressment or trade restrictions.
Oregon was shared with one European country under the Convention of 1818. A different country gave up its Oregon claims under Adams-Onis. Name both in order.
What are Great Britain and Spain?
Describe Europe's general initial response to the Monroe Doctrine AND the U.S. weakness that limited its enforcement.
European powers generally paid little attention; the United States lacked enough military strength to enforce it alone.
Name THREE actions that addressed the Federalist/Anti-Federalist debate: one involving essays and two involving constitutional amendments.
What are essays supporting the Constitution, amendments limiting federal power, and amendments protecting individual rights?
Jefferson supported strict interpretation of the Constitution. Explain why that belief made the Louisiana Purchase a difficult decision.
He questioned whether the Constitution granted the federal government authority to buy the territory.
National pride grew after the war. Name this feeling and explain how Henry Clay's American System expressed it.
What is nationalism? The American System aimed to strengthen the U.S. economy and make it more self-sufficient.
Correct BOTH errors: "Adams-Onis gave Texas to the United States and did not affect the Louisiana Purchase boundary."
The U.S. recognized Spanish control of Texas. The treaty defined the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase.
Explain the change from the original Monroe Doctrine to its later use in the 1900s: whose interference did it first oppose, and what U.S. actions did it later justify?
It first opposed European interference. Later interpretations justified U.S. intervention and a policing role in Latin America.