The First Presidents
This is the system in which a group of people are chosen by each state to choose the President and Vice President of the United States of America.
What is the Electoral College?
The name of the edge of the wilderness which pioneers were moving to.
What is the frontier?
This is the vocabulary term for the supporters of the war who had a strong sense of national pride.
What is nationalism?
This is the name of the journey which Native Americans took while being relocated following the passing of the Indian Removal Act.
What was the Trail of Tears?
The vocabulary word which means "to change".
What is reform?
This was the first Vice President, he served under President George Washington.
Who was John Adams?
The Louisiana Purchase was completed in this year.
What is 1803?
This is the poem written by Francis Scott Key, which when put to music became the national anthem of the United States of America.
What is "The Star Spangled Banner"?
This is the vocabulary term for the official rules and ideas one nation's government uses to define its relationship with another nation's government.
What is foreign policy?
This is the vocabulary term which means "an extreme shortage of food".
What is a "famine"?
An official ceremony to make someone president.
What is an inauguration?
The Louisiana Territory was bought by the United States for this much money.
What is about $15 million?
This was the president elected in 1808.
Who was James Madison?
This was vocabulary term which the president issued warning European leaders that they were not to colonize or recolonize in the Western Hemisphere.
What was the cotton gin?
This was one of the first political parties. It was led by Alexander Hamilton. These politicians were strongly in favor of a national bank and strong federal government.
What were the Federalists?
This was the port which was crucial to U.S. commerce and one of the main reasons why Jefferson sent Monroe to try and convince the French to allow the United States the ability to purchase the land.
What is the port of New Orleans?
The vocabulary term which means "to break away".
What is to secede?
This is the territory which John Quincy Adams persuaded Spain to sell to the United States in return for the United States dropping its claim to Texas.
What is Florida?
This was the name of the temporary solution which decided that Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state, while Missouri would join as a slave state. This helped to keep the balance between the number of free and slave states.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This is the name of one of the first political parties. It was led by Thomas Jefferson. These politicians and their policies supported a farming economy and represented the common man. They did not want a strong central government. It was the party most Anti-Federalists belonged to.
What was the Democratic-Republicans?
This was the exploring duo who went on an expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory in 1804. They began in St. Louis, Missouri and created valuable resources for future explorers and settlers.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
This is the nickname for the ship USS Constitution.
What is "Old Ironsides"?
This is the person to become the fifth president of the United States in 1817.
Who was James Monroe?
This was the first state to grant women the right to vote.
What was Wyoming?