Name That Decade
The Civil War took place in THIS decade.
What is the 1860s?
The first and largest ever land acquisition by the US was the purchase of THIS territory in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
While the "Anti-Federalists" were not a political party, many of them later formed THIS party.
What are the Democratic-Republicans?
Sectional tensions resulted in a number of strange compromises in order to maintain the balance of power between free and slave states, such as THIS 1820 compromise, which created a new state out of the existing territory of Massachusetts.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The election of THIS president is known as a "peaceful revolution," in part because power was transferred peacefully from one political party to another for the first time.
Who is Jefferson?
The French and Indian War (Seven Years War) began in THIS decade.
What is the 1750s?
Those who "rushed" to California following the discovery of gold were known by THIS nickname, derived from the year in which many of them traveled there.
What are Forty-Niners?
Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson's VP and protege, was a member of THIS political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
Northern and southern states disagreed over the institution of slavery but were also very different economically, with THIS region being the base for the vast majority of American manufacturing.
What is the North?
THIS president ordered the forced removal of many Native people from Georgia to what is now Oklahoma.
Who is Jackson?
The cotton gin was invented in THIS decade.
What is the 1790s?
For many Americans in the 1840s, fulfilling the promise of "Manifest Destiny" meant traveling thousands of miles to settle in THIS disputed northwestern territory, which Lewis and Clark had explored in 1805.
What is the Oregon Territory?
The demise of the Federalist Party led to a period in which only one party dominated US politics, known as the Era of THIS.
What are "Good Feelings"?
South Carolina's declaration that it would not follow laws it didn't like (notably the Tariff of Abominations) resulted in THIS crisis.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
THIS president famously declared that European powers should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere or seek new territory there.
Who is Monroe?
Sam Houston declared Texas an independent republic in THIS decade.
What is the 1830s?
The term "Mexican Cession" refers to territories ceded by Mexico in THIS treaty.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
In the Jackson Era, THIS system basically guaranteed that important government positions would be occupied by members of the president's party.
What is the spoils system?
Even before debates over slavery reached a fever pitch, tensions between New England and the South grew during THIS war, when representatives from several New England states opposed to the war met in Hartford and threatened to secede from the union.
What is the War of 1812?
THIS president was re-elected shortly after leading the United States into the War of 1812 against Britain.
Who is Madison?
The Salem With Trials took place in THIS decade.
What are the 1690s?
In 1846, THIS Congressman proposed that slavery be banned in all the territories acquired from Mexico, a proposal that failed in the Senate. (Just the last name is fine.)
Who is David Wilmot?
People who were unhappy with Jackson's presidency helped form THIS party to oppose Jackson's Democratic Party.
Who are the Whigs?
A revolt led by THIS enslaved preacher in 1831 increased tensions between slave and free states as southern whites grew fearful and defensive at the prospect of further slave revolts.
Who is Nat Turner?
THIS president was in office for exactly one month in 1841 before he got sick an died, probably because he had stayed out in the cold too long at his inauguration giving a long speech.
Who is William Henry Harrison?