Founding Fathers
What did George Washington warn Americans of in his Farewell Address speech?
Political Parties will divide the nation
According to John Page's letter to Jefferson, what is impressment?
The British were capturing American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British military
What states were added as a part of the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri and Maine
In John Gast's painting "American Progress", what does the woman represent?
American's right to stretch from sea to sea
What caused the Mexican American War?
A border dispute between Mexico and America (an excuse for the US to claim more slave territory by making the border the Rio Grande River)
How does the economy of the North and South show geographical discrimination?
What did John Page suggest would help stop impressment?
an embargo to end trade
Which state was a slave state in the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri
Where is everyone headed during Manifest Destiny?
Western lands towards the Pacific Ocean
What is Four Score and Seven years ago before the Gettysburg Address speech that Lincoln references as the time America was created on liberty and freedom?
The Declaration of Independence
Approve
What does the political cartoon over the Monroe Doctrine illustrate?
Which state was added as a free state in the Missouri Compromise?
Maine
What years was westward expansion at its height?
in the middle of the 1800s
According to Lincoln's speech, why were we fighting the civil war?
to test our nation's resolve on being founded on liberty and freedom
Was Hamilton a Federalist or Democratic-Republican?
Federalist (that is why he wanted the federal government to have more power through the bank)
What continent were the countries from that were considering invading Latin America?
Europe
What did the Missouri Compromise Line separate?
slave and free territories west of the Mississippi River
In the Cherokee Supreme Court case, what did the court rule about Indian Removal?
The US had to agree to allow the Cherokees to keep their territories (Jackson famously ignores this)
Why can't the living "hallow this ground" at Gettysburg?
The soldiers that were killed already made the sacrifice of trying to fight for freedom and liberty
According to Hamilton, how would the bank help the country?
It could loan money to states in emergencies and help facilitate taxes
What does the Political Cartoon with Uncle Sam on the globe represent?
The Monroe Doctrine
What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?
To keep the Senate equally balanced between free and slave states
What happened to the hispanic citizens after the Mexican American war that were now living in US territory?
They could become US Citizens or move south to Mexico
Even though the 15th Amendment gave African American males the right to vote, how was it limited?