Famous Figures
Laws, Acts & The Courts
Treaties & Foreign Affairs
Conflicts & Protests
Early American Politics & Vocabulary
100

This president was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

100

This is the practice that allows federal courts to decide if laws are constitutional.

What is judicial review?

100

This land acquisition doubled the size of the United States.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

100

This event led to British troops setting fire to Washington D.C.

What is the War of 1812?

100

This was the political party of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.

What is the Federalist party?

200

This person saved Gilbert Stuart's iconic painting of George Washington from being destroyed in the White House fire.

Who is Dolley Madison?

200

 This Supreme Court decision established judicial review.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

200

This was the French secret agents' attempted bribery of American diplomats.

What is the XYZ Affair?

200

This was an uprising by Pennsylvania farmers protesting a tax they thought was unfair.

What is the Whiskey Rebellion?

200

This political party supported France during their revolution.

What are the Republicans?

300

This Native American leader called for military action against U.S. expansion.

Who is Tecumseh?

300

This legislation gave the President the power to deport citizens of other countries and gave the government the right to imprison its critics.

What is the Alien and Sedition Act?

300

This practice involved forcing people into military service.

What is impressment?

300

These were resolutions stating that the states had the right to judge whether a federal law agreed with the Constitution.

What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?

300

This is a general term for a restriction on trade.

What is an embargo?

400

This individual was the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Who is John Jay?

400

The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed under this president.

Who is John Adams?

400

This treaty temporarily prevented war with Britain and upset Democratic Republicans.

 What is Jay's Treaty?

400

This term means states could declare a federal law unconstitutional, declaring it "null and void."

What is nullification?

400

In this address, Washington warned about a two political party system.

What is the Farewell Address?

500

Their mission was to gather information about natural resources west of the Mississippi.

Who are Lewis and Clark?

500

This was Jefferson's unpopular and unsuccessful response to the war between Britain and France.

What is the Embargo Act of 1807?

500

This agreement ended the war with the British in 1814.

What is the Treaty of Ghent?

500

He was the commander of American troops at the Battle of New Orleans.

Who is Andrew Jackson?

500

This is an area in which Native Americans were forced to live after losing their homeland.

What is a reservation?

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