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100
A severe food shortage.
What is a famine.
100
The forty-niners went here to discover gold.
What is California?
100
They were of Mexican or Spanish descent.
Who were the Californios?
100
The first president.
Who is George Washington?
100
The idea that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world.
What is transcendentalism?
200
A document signed by the Pilgrims that established the idea of self-government and majority rule in America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
Jefferson instructed Lewis and Clark to map and explore this territory.
What is Louisiana.
200
He was the adventurer and soldier that became captain of the Jamestown settlement.
Who is John Smith?
200
During his administration, the practice of filling jobs with political backers was known as the spoils system.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
Women joined this movement to stop the drinking of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
300
Stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion.
What is romanticism?
300
Present day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska.
What is Indian Territory?
300
This group of people sided with the British during the Revolutionary War.
Who were the Loyalists?
300
As Democratic-Republican, he won the 1816 election with a large majority of electoral votes.
Who is James Monroe?
300
This act required Native Americans to relocate west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
400
The land that the United States acquired from Mexico.
What is the Mexican Cession?
400
This document kept the balance of power in the Senate between the slave states and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
These men both carried and founded new colonies in the West.
Who were Stephen Austin and Brigham Young?
400
This president promoted a common way of life because he wanted the U.S. to remain a nation of small independent farmers.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
The main purpose was to delcare independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
The process in which the Constitution can be changed.
What is an amendment?
500
This is the state where Thomas Jefferson lived in Monticello.
What is Virginia?
500
Who was Jackson referring to when he said, "BLANK has made his decision...Now let him enforce it."
Who is John Marshall?
500
Manifest destiny became government policy during his administration.
Who is James Polk?
500
-It triggered a vast move westward. -Planters grew more than any other crop -Native Americans lost their lands -Slavery was still in demand.
What was the impact of the cotton gin?
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