He tied with Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800 and later served as vice president, later known for his duel with Alexander Hamilton
Who was Aaron Burr?
100
This, completed in 1825, connected the Hudson to the Great Lakes and made New York City the premiere port of the nation.
What is the Erie Canal?
100
This ideology holds that only free people should work, that wealth can be earned, and that workers should enjoy the fruits of their labor.
What is free labor?
100
This invention was crucial to making cotton and slavery profitable.
What is the cotton gin?
100
This was the northern strategy for the Civil War.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
This act, passed in 1807, shattered the economy and tarnished Jefferson's presidency.
What is the Embargo Act?
200
Jackson became a national figure after this battle in 1815.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
200
This was the industry to be impacted by industrialization.
What is the textile industry?
200
This is code of honor in the South that is based on the assumption that women are weak and should be protected.
What is chivalry?
200
Victory in this battle in 1862 prompted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
This is the practice of snatching American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British navy.
What is impressment?
300
This prompted a showdown between Jackson and South Carolina.
What is the Tariff of 1828, or "Tariff of Abominations"?
300
This area consists of the modern-day Pacific Northwest and part of British Columbia.
What is the Oregon Country?
300
This proposal, introduced in 1846, would have barred slavery from spreading to the new territories taken from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
This group wanted to punish the South causing the Civil War and to treat it as a conquered territory, rather than to readmit it to the Union.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
400
This case established the role of the Supreme Court, which was to determine the constitutionality of laws.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
400
This means that states are not required to follow federal laws.
What is nullification?
400
This province of Mexico became an independent republic between 1836 and 1845.
What is Texas?
400
This is the idea of allowing people in a territory decide whether they wanted to legalize slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This general marched from Atlanta to Savanna, destroying everything in between.
Who was General Sherman?
500
This ended the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
500
This law relocated the Cherokee to what is now Oklahoma, in 1830
What is the Indian Removal Act?
500
This idea is based on the assumption that Americans of Anglo-Saxon descent are superior; that the West was open and empty land; and that Mexicans and Indians were considered "inferior" and could be swept aside.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
This case ruled that African-Americans could not sue for their freedom because they had no rights as citizens of the United States.
What is Dred Scot v. Sanford?
500
His election in 1876 and following compromise in 1877 led to the withdrawal of the last federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.