Era of Good Feelings
The period of American history marked by extreme nationalism and a lack of obvious political conflict
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
This act forced multiple Native American peoples across the country to reservations in Oklahoma
What is the Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears?
The belief that the American's God-given right was to expand across the continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
The president during the Mexican-American War
Who is James K. Polk?
The sound that a real bald eagle makes (try your best)
What is more like a seagull than a victory screech?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The political party founded by Andrew Jackson after losing his first bid for presidency?
What is the Democratic Party?
The famous trail that caused many Americans to struggle and perish in their journey out west
What is the Oregon Trail?
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American war by ceding the entire American Southwest to the United States for 15 Million Dollars
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The actor that played Donnie in hit 2001 Sci-Fi Thriller "Donnie Darko"?
Who is Jake Gyllenhall?
The concept of the American North and South becoming separate sections of the country, with their own culture and values
What is Sectionalism?
The system in which friends and donors to the president were appointed to important positions in government, often without qualifications
What is the Spoils System?
Two of the reasons that Americans decided to risk death and travel out West
What is trouble with crops, avoiding disease, American Propaganda, starting a new life, potential to find gold, etc.
The main issue preventing an independent Texas from joining the United States?
What is the concern that Texas would be a slave state?
The price of a beef soft taco at Taco Bell?
What is $2.19?
This man and his kids killed slave owners with broadswords in an aggressive abolitionist movement
Who is John Brown?
The result of an imposed tariff that caused South Carolina to reject the ruling of the federal government
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The two transport technologies that made trade much easier across difficult terrain, and allowed Americans to continue expanding westward?
Polk's argument for starting the Mexican-American War?
What is the belief that Mexican soldiers killed American soldiers on American land?
The only MLB player to have 50 stolen bases and 50 home runs in the same season?
Who is Shohei Ohtani?
This supreme court decision ruled that Black Americans could never be citizens, regardless of their status as free or enslaved
What is the Dred Scott decision?
The reason Andrew Jackson believed that the federal bank needed to be destroyed and distributed to individual states
What is the idea that banks only benefit the wealthy elite in the north?
A famous member of the Donner Party that was forced to consume fellow humans, and watch her Husband and Father die before making it West
Who is Sarah Graves? (Not on the test)
Two criticisms of the Mexican-American war stated by congress?
What is Polk lying about the location of American soldiers, Polk getting the soldiers on purpose, America seeking an excuse to gain territory, the benefits to the South in growing territory that would allow slaves, etc.
The year that Superman comics began in the United States?
What is 1938?