War of 1812
Era of Good Feeling
Andrew Jackson
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The Civil War
100
Who was President during the War of 1812?
Who was James Madison?
100
This progam of improvement involved the selling of Western lands, creating a tariff to fund internal improvements, and establishing a Bank of the United States. Hint: it was a system.
What is the American System?
100
Andrew Jackson believed that he had lost the Election of 1824 due to a ______ bargain between John Q. Adams and Henry Clay
What is a corrupt bargain?
100
This man took the first American settlers into Texas
Hint: He shares his name with a rather famous WWE wrestler
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
100
What state's proposed admission to the Union in 1849 triggered the need for the Compromise of 1850?
What is the state of California?
200
This practice was the kidnapping of American sailors and forcing them to serve on French or British naval vessels
What was impressment?
200
The buidling of roads, bridges, and canals is known as
What are internal improvements?
200
Andrew Jackson made these people the center of his political campaign
Who is the common man?
200
This was America's God-given right to expand from coast to coast, possessing all of America
What is manifest destiny?
200
This was considered a solution to the question of whether or not states would be free states or slave states, by having the inhabitants of the state vote on whether or not to allow slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This is an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country
What is an Embargo?
300
Who was President during the so-called Era of Good Feeling?
Who was James Monroe?
300
This is the practice of hooking your friends up with government jobs
What is the spoils system?
300
The Mexican-American War started because of dispute between Mexico and America over this state?
What is Texas?
300
This law required all American citizens to capture or snitch on runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
400
This Act banned trade with the rest of Europe and Great Britain and France because of their continuing impressement of American sailors
The Embargo Act
400
True or False: President Monroe did not support the 2nd Bank of the United States
False
400
True or False: During Andrew Jackson's presidential inaugruation, he threw a giant party that got so rowdy, he was forced to sneak into the White House after the crowd died down
True!
400
True or False: The state of Texas was an independent country for 9 years before joining the United States
True!
400
This senator was responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is Stephen Douglas?
500
True or False: After the Embargo Act was repealed, the Non-Intercourse Act tooks its place, which banned trade with ONLY England and France
True
500
True or False: people in Western states such as Kentucky supported the Tariff of 1816
True
500
This 1000 mile journey forced native americans in the Southeast to relocate to Oklahoma on foot
What is the Trail of Tears?
500
This was a 2,000 mile journey that started at Fort Independence Missouri and ended on the West Coast
What is the Oregon Trail?
500
This law repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and kickstarted a guerilla war in the new territory of Kansas
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
600
The British burned this iconic American landmark after they took the city of Washington D.C.
What is the White House?
600
The Missouri Compromise was created to solve what issue that divided the North and South?
What is slavery?
600
This Native American tribe practiced farming, spoke English, attempted to assimilate into American culture and some even owned slaves
Who are the Cherokee?
600
This new type of transportation opened up the Western United States to settlers from the East Coast
hint: choo choo!
What is a train or locomotive?
600
This man attacked a Federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia with the hopes of starting a slave rebellion
Who is John Brown?
700
This Treaty ended the War of 1812
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
700
What state was added to the United States as a free state as a result of the Missouri Compromise?
What is Maine?
700
What was the nickname the South had for the Tariff of 1828?
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
700
This Presidential proclamation was designed to keep the Europeans from expanding further into Central and South America
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
700
In 1861, this man was elected President of the United States by winning only 40% of the vote
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
800
This battle was fought after the end of the War of 1812
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
800
This Missouri Compromise added this state as a slave state
What is Missouri?
800
This doctrine said that a state had the right to (reject) a federal law that it considers unconstitutional
what is nullification?
800
What valuable mineral was discovered in California in 1848, triggering a flood of fortune seekers?
What is gold?
800
This state was the first to leave the Union
What is the state of South Carolina?
900
This future American President defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans
Who is Andrew Jackson?
900
What state did the United States purchase from Spain as a result of the Adams-Onis treaty?
What is Florida?
900
True or False: Andrew Jackson supported the 2nd Bank of the United States
False!
900
This group of settlers was forced to eat the flesh of their fellow travelers when they took a detour that left them trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains
What was the Donner Party?
900
This fort in the state of South Carolina was the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired
What is Fort Sumter?