Reform and Reformers
What problem was the temperance movement trying to solve?
Alcohol abuse / Drinking
Who was the first Federalist president?
George Washington
Of the four candidates who received electoral votes in the 1824 election, who had the most poplular votes?
Andrew Jackson
What was the belief that God had bestowed the entire continent to the Americans and wanted them to settle the western lands?
Manifest Destiny
What was an invention that changed cotton farming in the United States?
The cotton gin
Who was the former slave who became an abolitionist and published a newspaper entitled the "North Star"
Frederick Douglas
This political group consisted of mostly farmers and people who lived in rural areas
Democratic Republicans
What did Andrew Jackson call the deal between Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams that made Henry Clay the Secretary of State?
The Corrupt Bargain
Pioneers who settled on land that they didn't own where known as what?
Squatters
Who created the first successful textile mills in the United States?
Francis C. Lowell or Samuel Slater
Name either of the two women who organized the Senaca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Lucretia Mott
Who was the first Democratic Republican President?
Thomas Jefferson
Jackson stood for the idea that ordinary people should participate in American _______ life
political
What was the battle that Sam Houston's army captured Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and forced Mexico to grant Texas independence?
Battle of San Jacinto
Who popularized the concept of interchangeable parts for products like guns and machines?
Eli Whitney
Joseph Smith was the leader of what religous group that started in the Midwest, but eventually fled to Utah territory
The Mormons
Who was the President who made the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
What was the name of the political party that Andrew Jackson formed for the election of 1828?
The Democrats
Who was the President who annexed (added) Texas to the United States in 1845
James K. Polk
What did Samuel Morse invent?
Telegraph
Who was the most influential trancendentialist in America?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which early American political party pushed the Alien and Sedition Acts through Congress?
The Federalists
What was the forced movement of Native Americans from the Southeast to Oklahoma called?
The Trail of Tears
What was the treaty that ended the Mexican-American war in 1848?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Jethro Wood and John Deere both invented this device to help farmers moving west to the Great Plains
Iron and/or Steel plows