Early American Government
This was the first government attempt in the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The War of 1812 was fought between these two countries.
What is the Americans and the British?
These two regions in the US started to develop identities in the 1800s.
What is the North and South?
This was was the concern during the Missouri Compromise.
What was balancing slave and free states in Congress?
The Mexican-American war became an issue due to this state wanting to join the Union.
What is Texas?
These are two of the issues that the Articles of Confederation presented.
What is __________?
Central power
No army
Couldn't tax citizens
Regulate interstate commerce
This general became a war hero during this was and would eventually become president.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This is what the Northern economy was based on in the US.
What is manufactoring?
This compromise developed the 36* 30 line delineating where slave states and free states could exist in the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This is the current document that establishes and outlines our government.
What is the Constitution?
This is one of the main reasons that the War of 1812 occurred.
What is impressment, seizing American ships, and expansion into Canada?
This court case, helped drive the division between the North and the South, when they ruled that no black American was considered a citizen.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This term means to allow states to choose whether they have slavery in their state or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
This concept, stated that Europe needed to stay out of the Western Hemisphere, and that the United States would stay out of Europe.
What is the Monroe Doctine?
This man is the primary author of the Constituion.
Who is James Madison?
This is who won the war.
Who is nobody?
In the South, this invention helped spur the expansion and demand for slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
This is where most slaves were held in Southern states. (what type of geographical feature)
What is near water?
This was the real reason the Nullification Crisis was an issue. (Not the surface reason)
What was state's rights vs. National Government?
This was the final compromise that created the United States government and included provisions such as: bicameral legislative body - one based on population and another based on equal representation, and the 3/5ths compromise.
What is the Connecticut Compromise or the Great Compromise?
This is where the Star-Spangled Banner was written.
Where is Fort McHenry, Baltimore Maryland?
This eventual President gained widespread notariety after his opposition to slavery, and his election would later lead to the secession of Southern states.
This state entered the Union at the same time as Missouri in order to maintain balance in Congress.
What is Maine?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?