Jefferson/War of 1812
His election in 1800 began the tradition of a "peaceful transition of power."
Who was Jefferson?
What was the Era of Good Feelings?
This famous invention in 1793 helped to make slavery profitable in the long-term.
What was the cotton gin?
What was temperance?
"I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John Calhoun."
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This famous Jefferson-era agreement with France doubled the land the United States claimed.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
This controversial president helped to revive America's two-party system in the 1830's.
Who was Jackson?
Who was Nat Turner?
What was the Cult of Domesticity?
(As he lay dying) "[At least] Thomas Jefferson survives!"
Who is John Adams?
This British policy famously irritated Americans; they would seize suspected deserters on American ships on sight.
What was impressment?
This famous agreement in 1820 temporarily calmed tensions between the North and the South by creating a clear national line between slave and free states.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This large construction project improved national transportation by helping to connect the Great Lakes together.
What was the Erie Canal?
Let's get away from the world and try and build a perfect society!
What were utopian communities?
[Name the event] "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal"...
What was Seneca Falls?
This name was given to the group of Congressmen who demanded the War of 1812 against the British Empire.
Who were the War Hawks?
Defying the Supreme Court, Jackson brutally ordered the removal of this famous Indian nation.
Who were the Cherokees?
The name given to a famous secret system that helped to smuggle African-Americans out of the South.
What was the Underground Railroad?
The famous Congressman and Whig Party leader came up with the American System, to promote America as a modern industrial power.
Who was Henry Clay?
[Speaking out against slavery] "I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
Who was William Garrison?
This famous Shawnee leader tried to unite all of the American Indian nations against the growing United States.
Who was Tecumseh?
What was the Bank of the United States?
The first form of instant long-distance communication!
What was the telegraph?
He led a new movement for public education across America.
Who was Horace Mann?
"I changed my mind..." (Dies)
Who was Madison?