Bags o' mystery
What general was sent into Florida in 1818, destroyed several Seminole villages, and disobeyed orders by seizing the Spanish settlements of St. Marks and Pensacola?
Andrew Jackson
A labor union is a group of...
Workers who join together to seek better pay, hours, or conditions
Who is credited as having invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Which state requested admission into the Union in 1819 as a slave state?
Missouri
President Monroe declared in 1823 that the American continents were no longer to be considered for colonization by European powers in an announcement later called the...
The Monroe Doctrine
Which of these governmental actions was designed to protect American manufacturers by taxing imports?
The Tariff of 1816 (a protective tariff)
What infrastructure project was completed to connect the Hudson River at Albany to Lake Erie?
The Erie Canal
Who rose from slavery to become a prominent leader of the antislavery movement?
Frederick Douglass
In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state and maintain the balance of power in the Senate?
Maine
The presidential election of 1828 was a bitter campaign between just two candidates - Andrew Jackson and...
John Quincy Adams
Who introduced a bill proposing the Second National Bank of the United States?
John C. Calhoun
Communications improved when American inventor Samuel F.B. Morse perfected the...
The telegraph
Who owned larger plantations and were at the top of the South’s class structure?
Planters
What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?
Old Hickory
Andrew Jackson’s supporters who were opposed to Adams’s presidency began calling themselves...
Democrats
In the Adams-Onís Treaty...
Spain gave Florida to the United States
Who is credited with perfecting the steamboat?
Robert Fulton
Which system organized enslaved persons into groups that labored from sunup to sundown?
The gang system
Which term is used when political candidates criticize each other’s personalities and morals?
Mudslinging
What is the definition of a driver as it relates to slavery?
An enslaved person who directed the work of other enslaved workers, under an overseer’s authority
Between 1816 and 1824, Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in three important cases that established the dominance of the nation over the...
The states
Whose tiny but powerful locomotive Tom Thumb pulled the nation’s first load of train passengers?
Peter Cooper
What is the definition of yeoman farmers in connection with southern society?
Small independent farmers who owned few or no enslaved people
What caused Andrew Jackson’s supporters to accuse President Adams of striking a “corrupt bargain”?
Adams named Henry Clay Secretary of State after Clay helped him win the House vote
Although the South became prosperous from agriculture, it did not ________as quickly as the North.
Industrialize