Treaties and Acts#1
This ordered accurate surveys of the Northwest Territory.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1787?
This admitted Maine as a free state and provided for the admission of Missouri as a slave state, maintaining a balance in the senate while avoiding conflict amongst the states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The poem by Francis Scott Key that became the U.S. National anthem.
What is the "Star-Spangled Banner"?
A gap through the mountains that led into Kentucky.
What is Cumberland Gap?
This plit into two groups, the National Republicans, who wanted a strong central government, and the Democrats, who supported states' rights.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
This called for Congress to administer the Northwest Territory by appointment a governor and judges.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This established a boundary between Indian lands and lands open to settlement.
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
The name of the presidential mansion after the War of 1812.
What is the White House?
The trail that blazed westward over the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky.
What is the Wilderness Road?
All of the lands north of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Territory?
This was Jefferson's plan to stop all trade with Europe.
What is the Embargo Act?
Land purchased from France for $15,000,000, more than doubling the size of the United States.
What is the Louisana Purchase?
National pride.
What is the Nationalism?
The area of salt deposits in Kentucky that was valuable because salt was the main preservative.
What is Big Bone Lick?
The meeting of delegates from the New England states in 1814who condemned the war with England and declared the right of a state to nullify or repeal an act of Congress.
What is the Hartford Convention?
This began after the War of 1812; marked by national growth and cooperation.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
This ended the War of 1812(1814).
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
A group of presidents from Virginia who guided our country in the early years of its history; this included George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.
What is the Virginia Dynasty?
The fort built by Daniel Boone in Kentucky.
What is Boonesborough?
This became the first state from the Northwest Territory in 1803.
What is Ohio?
This was a tax on European imported goods that protected the American industry.
What is the Tariff of 1816?
When Spain ceded Florida and gave up its claim to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
This prohibited any future colonization in the New World by European powers.
What is Monroe Doctrine?
This became the first frontier or "western" state in 1792.
What is Kentucky?
An important port on the Mississippi River.
What is New Orleans?