Good Feelings
Frontier to White House
Jackson's Presidency
Manifest Destiny
New Lands....
100
This is the name of Henry Clay's system.
What is American System?
100
Andrew Jackson's election depended on support from this type of American.
What is the common person?
100
This is why whites called the Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminoles where called civilized tribes.
What is learning and adopting white ways, having an alphabet, creating a constitution. (one of the above)
100
This is the belief that the US had the right and duty to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This is the name of the territory that Mexico ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It resulted in California.
What is the Mexican Cession?
200
Name of a time period of national unity.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
200
Andrew Jackson did not take advice from his appointment cabinet members. This is the group he did take advice from.
What is his Kitchen Cabinet or close friends?
200
This is why the government and Americans pushed the Native Americans out of Georgia during Andrew Jackson's presidency.
What is for cotton and land?
200
There are three ways that the United States gained territory from other countries. List them.
What is diplomacy (treaties), warfare or purchase?
200
The Gadsden Purchase was important to the United States because they wanted to this.
What is to build railroads?
300
This was one of the main purposes of Henry Clay's American System.
What is to promote economic growth? (transportation & business)
300
This is the group of people that came to the White House for President Jackson's inauguration.
Who are the farmers, the workers, the families or the common people?
300
This is the Trail of Tears or the Indian Removal Act.
What is the forced removal of the Cherokees or Native Americans?
300
The Louisiana Purchase came as a surprise to President Jackson. This is one of the impacts that this purchase had on the size of the United States.
What is doubling the size of the US?
300
This event had to happen before Stephen F. Austin could start a colony in Texas.
What is Mexico getting it's independence?
400
This is the economic system that is based on private ownership of farms and businesses.
What is Capitalism?
400
President Jackson had a habit of rewarding political supporters with government jobs.
What is the Spoils System?
400
Many southern states wanted to nullify laws in reaction to the excise tax called the Tariff of Abominations. The crisis that followed, in which states wanted to secede, was called this.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
400
The United States wanted to get this territory from Spain because their Georgia farms were being raided.
What is Florida?
400
War with Mexico and the United States broke out over this dispute.
What is a border dispute? (Nueces River or the Rio Grande)
500
The Era of Good Feelings was marked by a development in American art, music and writing. Name one person or detail about the art, the music or the writing.
What are spirituals, folk art, James Fenimore Cooper, Davy Crockett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Any one could be the answer)
500
This is the group of Americans who were allowed to vote in 1828. This resulted in three times as many Americans voting.
Who are all white men?
500
Jackson was intent on destroying the Bank of the US. He thought that they had a monopoly on banking business. This group was most upset by his actions.
What is the rich and well born?
500
Many settlers wanted to go to Oregon country for this incentive.
What is religious freedom?
500
Both Britain the United States claimed the territory called Oregon. This is how President Polk solved this.
What is he compromised by dividing the territory at the 49th parallel?
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