Revolution
Which tax first spurred Samuel Adams to become upset enough to begin to agitate for independence?
Which part of the Constitution was ratified at the same time that George Washington came to power?
The Bill of Rights
Jefferson purchased this from France as a result of the the Haitian Revolution.
What is Louisiana? (Louisiana Purchase)
The court case that decided that Cherokee land was, in fact, Cherokee land and not part of the state of Georgia.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Future Presidents Lincoln and Davis both protested the Mexican American War. Why?
What was the doubt about "American blood being spilled on American soil?"
Why were the American colonies upset with paying taxes in the first place?
What were the three capitals of the US during this period/era?
What is another way of saying "We are all Federalists, we are all Republicans?"
What is "We are all Americans"
This was closed because the profits benefitted wealth French people, not US citizens.
What was the Bank of the United States?
Who captured Mexico City by building temporary bridges and went on to become one of the South's greatest generals in the Civil War?
Who was Robert E. Lee?
What event caused the death of five people and was seen as unprovoked by the citizens of Boston?
The Boston Massacre
Explain the XYZ Affair
France wanted a bribe of 1M florins to talk to their foreign minister/Talleyrand.
What idea that President Jefferson didn't like did he embrace to purchase Louisiana?
Loose Construction of the Constitution.
Jackson extended the vote to include these people.
What are all white males?
The Mexican American war was fought to gain this territory.
What is California?
Who was the Virginia Burgess who told his fellow Americans that he'd rather be dead than unfree in the British Empire.
Who was Patrick Henry?
These laws made it illegal to criticize the government or its officials either verbally or in print. They also extended the time for citizenship from five years to fourteen.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Who was sent to survey the Louisiana Purchase for the US?
Lewis and Clark
The removal of Native Americans from Georgia to Oklahoma was called this because it caused so many deaths.
What was the Trail of Tears?
Most of the Mexican territory captured during the Mexican-American War was . . .
What is below the Missouri Compromise line, therefore eligible to become slave states?
What were the punishments for the Tea Party?
Closure of the port of Boston; Dissolving the MA General Court/Parliament; the arrest of Samuel Adams and John Hancock; Pay for the tea.
Hamilton's defense of the bank depended on this clause of the Constitution.
What is the elastic clause?
What issue, that later caused the War of 1812, was Jefferson dealing with, prompting him to sponsor the "Embargo Act?"
What was Impressment?
President Jackson didn't annex Texas because of this.
What is the balance in the Senate between slave and non-slave states?
A brawl in this city and the placing of US troops on the Rio Grande helped to spark the Mexican-American War.
What is Matamoros?