Jackson, Buren, Harrison
The nullification crisis was started by a tariff what was it and why was it controversial.
Tariff of Abominations, the high taxes on imported goods and services for southern states.
What idea propagated the expansion of the US.
Manifest Destiny
What were the main issues that propagated the tensions prior to the Civil War?
Slavery and State rights
Who was the Union President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the most prolific Confederate general? (His middle name is E.)
Robert E. Lee
DOUBLE POINTS!!!!! (If you get one right you will get 200 if you get both of them right you get 400!)
1. Jackson was afraid of what sort of business.
2. What mythological creature did he relate it to?
1. Corporations/Monopolies
2. Hydra (Because if you got rid of one corp, you would just get 2 more)
What was the reason the Mexican American war was fought?
The killing of US troops on the border of the Rio Grande.
Name of the purchase in which the US bought southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico from Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
Who was the Confederate President during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
Most prominent Union General, and would become the next president of the united states after Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant .
What was the main reason that Natives were relocated during the trail of tears?
As it was rich and fertile land, good for the production of cotton, and grain.
What did the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo say and what did Mexico Give?
Mexico ceded all of California, Nevada, and Utah and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado to the USA in exchange for $15 million dollars and forgiveness of about $3 million more in previous debt.
After what Union act was money called "Green Backs" and was it legal tender outside of the Union.
Legal Tender Act
What battle ended the Civil War
Appomattox Court House
What US general that served during the Mexican-American war became president of the United States.
Zachary Taylor
Half Point Hooplah (you will be granted 200 points if you get one right if you get both right you will get the full 400)
1. On what territories was the Aroostook War fought on.
2. What was the name of the treaty signed between the British and the US that would ultimately end the conflict?
1. Mane and New Brunswick
2. Webster–Ashburton Treaty
Why was the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty important for the conversation of US territory (It involved Britan)
Because it made Britain respect us territories and vowed not to invade or take it over.
X2 POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!
In what political place of congregation was Charles Sumner an Anti-Slave advocate and leader of the Radical-Republicans was attacked by Preston Brooks with a cane.
Senate in 1856
What significant event happened after the battle of Antietam.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Union General that Orchestrated Sherman's march to the sea. (His nickname is also valid)
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
Why was Secretary Calhoun so adamant for the annexation of Texas?
Because he feared to meddle from from the British
1. By what Whig senator and former president drafted the Compromise of 1850.
2. Why was this law important for the stability of the united states.
1. Henry Clay
2. (broad Answer)
Name of Infamous abolitionist that fought in bloody Kansas and was influenced by "God".
John Brown
What was the Anaconda Plan
The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
Who was the commander of the Union during the Appomattox courthouse battle
George Armstrong Custer