Presidents
Louisiana Purchase
Marbury vs. Madison
The Embargo Act
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This young woman helped Lewis and Clark make their journey to the west coast, all while being pregnant, and then with a baby on her back.
Who is Sacagawea?
John Smith oversaw this time period, when the Virginia Company struggled to survive in the New World.
What is the Starving Time?
This invention of Eli Whitney's made cotton easier to harvest, more profitable, and revived the slave trade in the US.
What is the cotton gin?
Bought from France in 1803, this territory would double the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Indian Removal Act
National Bank War
Nullification Crisis
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This Warrior attempted to unite tribes under one banner to stave off the invasion of white settlers into their lands, but would ultimately be defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Who is Tecumseh?
John Winthrop envisioned the Puritan colony he helped found as this, as illustrated in his sermon "A Model of Christian Charity."
What is a City on a Hill?
Samuel "Traitor" Slater smuggled these out of England and helped kick off the Market Revolution.
What are factory plans?
Before the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson said, "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy…It is..." this southern city.
What is New Orleans?
Missouri Compromise
___________ Doctrine
Acquisition of Florida
Who is James Monroe?
This man was the last emperor of the Aztec Empire
Who is Montezuma?
This Quaker would create a colony that would be named after himself, where religious tolerance was the norm.
Who is William Penn?
This transportation project connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, making the interior of the new nation more easily accessible.
What is the Erie Canal?
After Andrew Jackson captured two Spanish Forts in this territory, Spain decided to sell it to the US rather than have it seized in an armed conflict.
What is Florida?
Tariff of 1816
War of 1812
Who is James Madison?
Things began to get a little tense between this man a John Smith when they tried to negotiate a trade after violence had broken out between their two groups.
Who is Powhatan?
Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to make this the first permanent English colony in North America, but the inhabitants mysteriously disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
John Stevens experimented with developing this in his yard, which would change transportation in the United States and around the world.
What is the steam engine?
This section of the Articles of Confederation set up the process for creating new states out of territories, one of the few things the articles did well.
What is the Northwest Ordinances?
Alien and Sedition Acts
XYZ Affair
Peaceful transfer of power
Who is John Adams
This was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England colonists.
What is King Philip's War?
After being exiled by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, this man went on to found the Rhode Island and Providence Plantation colony in 1636.
Who is Roger Williams?
These two men developed the sewing machine which would bring premade clothing to the public for the first time.
When this treaty was signed in 1818, the United States had territory that stretched "from sea to shining sea" for the first time.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?