Which 1803 territorial purchase doubled the size of the U.S.?
CH 11
Louisiana Purchase
During the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, who penned the poem that would become "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which northern territory was admitted as a free state to preserve the balance in the Senate?
Maine
Who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835, consistently ruling to expand federal power over state authority?
John Marshall
What term describes the outcome of the Treaty of Ghent, meaning "the state of affairs existing before the war"?
Status quo Ante Bellum
Which constitutional amendment required separate electoral votes for president and vice president?
12th Amendment
What was the nickname given to the heavy frigate USS Constitution after its successful ship-to-ship duels during the War of 1812?
Old Ironsides
What line of latitude was established by the Missouri Compromise as the boundary above which slavery was prohibited in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase?
36',30
Which 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review, affirming the Court's power to strike down unconstitutional federal laws?
Marbury v. Madison
Which principle of the Monroe Doctrine declared that the American continents were no longer open to future European territorial acquisition?
Non-colonization
Who served as Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson, retaining Alexander Hamilton's financial structures while eliminating the internal whiskey tax?
Albert Gallatin
Which naval commander secured American control of Lake Erie in 1813, famous for declaring, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours"?
Oliver Hazard Perry
What was the name of the first economic panic under the U.S. Constitution, caused primarily by over-speculation in Western lands and tight credit from the Second BUS?
Panic of 1819
Which 1824 Supreme Court decision struck down a state-granted steamboat monopoly in New York, re-affirming federal authority over interstate commerce?
Gibbons v. Ogden
What 1817 agreement between the U.S. and Britain strictly limited naval armaments and demilitarized the Great Lakes?
Rush-Bagot Agreement
What 1807 naval attack by a British frigate on an American warship off the coast of Virginia directly pushed Thomas Jefferson to enact the Embargo Act?
Which Shawnee leader was killed in 1813 at the Battle of the Thames by William Henry Harrison's forces, effectively breaking the pan-Indian confederacy?
Tecumseh
Passed by the House in 1819, what proposed amendment attempted to restrict slavery in Missouri by granting gradual emancipation to children born to enslaved parents?
Tallmadge Amendment
In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), the Supreme Court used which constitutional clause to validate the creation of the Second Bank of the United States?
Elastic Clause
Which 1810 bill offered to restore trade with whichever nation lifted restrictions first?
Macon's Bill No. 2
Which dual agent—serving as Governor of the Louisiana Territory and a paid Spanish spy—betrayed Aaron Burr in 1806, foiling Burr's Western secession plot?
General James Wilkinson
Which American naval officer won a decisive freshwater battle near Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain in September 1814, saving upper New York from a major British invasion?
Thomas Macdonough
Which 1816 protective tariff—the first in U.S. history passed explicitly for protection rather than revenue—was enacted to shield new American industries from post-war British dumping?
Protective Tariff of 1816
Which 1821 case explicitly affirmed the Supreme Court's right to review decisions made by state supreme courts whenever federal constitutional rights were involved?
Cohen v. Virginia
Under the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, what line of latitude was established as the official northern border between the Louisiana Purchase and British Canada?
49th parallel