Vocabulary
Early Important Persons
Later Important Persons
Important Events
Trivia
100
Rendezvous

What is an annual meeting where they would trade and share stories?

100

Lewis and Clark

What is the men who were sent by Jefferson to go on an expedition across the country, ran into Sacagawea on the way, and were to report back on any people, animals, or plants they found?

100

Zachary Taylor

What is the army officer that Polk ordered to march his soldiers across the disputed territory and get into a small battle with the Mexican army to start the war?

100

California Gold Rush

What is when gold was discovered in California, and many people came to the state in search for it?

100

Judicial Review

What is the right of the Supreme Court to determine if a law violates the Constitution, or to review on other acts?

200

Tarriff

What is a tax on imports or exports?

200

Francis Scott Key

What is the man who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" which told people what he saw on ships?

200

Sam Houston

What is the Commander in Chief of the Texas forces and 1st President of the Republic of Texas?

200

Mexican Cession

What is Mexico giving New Mexico and California to the United States?

200

Spoils System

What is the practice of handing out government jobs to supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters, which was part of the Jacksonian Democracy?

300

Annex

What is to add a territory to one's own territory?

300

Thomas Jefferson

What is the 3rd President of the United States, who purchased Louisiana from France?

300

Brigham Young

What is the leader of the Mormons?

300

The Trail of Tears

What is the forced march of the Cherokee from southeast United States to the west?

300

Alamo

What is a small Texan group defending this nearby mission in Texas during the Texan Revolution?

400

Mudslinging

What is attempts to ruin an opponents' reputations with insults, popular for use in the Election of 1828?

400

Andrew Jackson

What is a man known as "Old Hickory", a war hero of 1812, and the 7th President of the United States?

400

Levi Strauss

What is the man who sold miners sturdy pants made of denim during the Gold Rush?

400

Monroe Doctrine

What is the policy that the United States would not interfere with any existing European colonies in the Americas, and no new European colonies should be set up in the Western Hemisphere?

400

Oregon Trail

What is the trail that led to Oregon Territory that encouraged western expansion?

500

Laisesez-Faire

What is the policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy?

500

Henry Clay

What is the leading War Hawk who made the Missouri Compromise, and opposed Jackson in the election of 1832?

500

Forty-Niners

What is persons who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849?

500

Missouri Compromise

What is Henry Clay coming up with the idea that Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state, and that slavery was banned in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30'N parallel?

500

Tariff Debate

What is South Carolina passing the Nullification act, declaring it would not pay the "illegal" tariffs, and—threatening to break away from the Union—Andrew Jackson backed a bill that would lower the tariff?

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