Lesson 11
Vocab: To refuse to recognize a federal law.
What is to nullify?
Vocab: A policy of avoiding political or military agreements with other countries.
What is isolationism?
Vocab: An economic system based on the private ownership of farms and business.
What is capitalism?
Vocab: A tax imposed by the government on goods imported from another country.
What is a tariff?
Vocab: The unjust use of government power.
What is tyranny?
Hamilton was part of this political party.
What is the Federalist party?
Thomas Jefferson’s attempt to get rid of problems Americans were facing because of pirates and raiders from Great Britain and France; an act to halt all trade with other territories.
What is the Embargo Act? / What is an embargo?
An early American genre of music that mocked African Americans’ accents and culture.
What are minstrel songs? / What is minstrel?
Jackson was a popular presidential candidate because he believed in this type of democracy.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
Name three different regions. These were the regions that North American Indians inhabited.
Where is the Artic/Subartic/Northwest Coast/Plateau/Californian/Great Basin/Southwest/Great Plains/Eastern Woodlands/Southeast/Mesoamerican region?
Famous People: Name one of the two candidates. These two presidential candidates tied for electoral votes in the year 1800.
Who is Thomas Jefferson? / Who is Aaron Burr?
Famous People: A War Hawk congressman from Kentucky.
Who was Henry Clay?
Famous People: The author of famous early American works: Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Who is Washington Irving?
Famous People: This person was the leader of a rebellion against the Indian Removal Act, which was enacted by the Sac and Fox tribes of Illinois.
Who is Black Hawk?
Famous People: The author of Common Sense, a pamphlet supporting North American Colonists’ independence (written in 1776).
Who was Thomas Paine?
Fun Facts: The original capital building was located in this city.
Where is Philadelphia?
Fun Facts: Many Americans considered the War of 1812 this.
What was “the second war of independence?”
Fun Facts: The song America by Samuel Francis Smith is sung to this English tune.
What is ‘God Save the King?’
Fun Facts: This was the finishing line of the following quote by Andrew Jackson: “... It was the people’s day, and the People’s President…”
What is “... And the people would rule.”
Fun Facts: The amendment of legal rights; this amendment includes the protection of citizens from double jeopardy and self-incrimination.
What is the 5th amendment?
Important Dates: President Washington took office in this year.
What is 1789?
Important Dates: This was the year the Battle of New Orleans took place, and the year the War of 1812 ended.
What is 1815?
Important Dates: This was the year that President John Quincy Adams went into office.
What is 1824?
Important Dates: This was the year Andrew Jackson’s inauguration day took place.
What is 1829?
Important Dates: This was the year the United States became a country.
What is 1776?