Westward Expansion
In 1803, President Jefferson made this massive land purchase from France, doubling the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This New England inventor is credited with creating the cotton gin in 1793, which dramatically increased cotton production and the demand for enslaved labor.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This system, created by the Constitution, is used to indirectly elect the President and Vice President of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
This act, passed in 1765, required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, newspaper, and pamphlet.
What is the Stamp Act?
This economic system, heavily reliant on enslaved labor, was a major point of contention between the North and South.
What is slavery?
The belief that the United States was destined by God to expand its dominion and spread democracy across the North American continent is known as this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The shift from hand production to machine production in factories, beginning in the late 18th century, is known by this name.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Presidents serve for how long and for how many? (DOUBLE JEOPARDY)
What is 4 years terms up to two times?
This violent incident in 1770, where British soldiers fired into a crowd of protesting colonists, fueled anti-British sentiment.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This term refers to the idea that states have the right to ignore federal laws they deem unconstitutional, a concept often used by Southern states to defend slavery.
What is states' rights (or nullification)?
These trails were used by thousands of pioneers in the 1840s and 1850s to travel to new settlements in the West, with one major route leading to the Pacific Northwest.
What are the Oregon Trail, California Trail, or Mormon Trail?
This innovation, improved by Robert Fulton, revolutionized water transportation by allowing boats to travel upstream and against currents.
What is the steamboat?
In the 1828 election, Andrew Jackson's supporters introduced a new way of campaigning by holding large public gatherings and rallies, marking the beginning of this political style.
What is modern political campaigning (or grassroots campaigning)?
Colonists famously protested the Tea Act of 1773 by dumping chests of British tea into Boston Harbor in this defiant act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Published in 1852, this novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed the horrors of slavery and greatly intensified abolitionist sentiment in the North.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This conflict, fought from 1846 to 1848, resulted in the United States gaining vast territories including California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This invention, made by James Watt, revolutionized the way production would happen forever.
What is the steam engine?
How long do people serve in the Senate, and for how many times?
What is 6 years and unlimited terms?
This line, established by the British after the French and Indian War, prohibited American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This act, passed in 1854, allowed settlers in new territories to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty, leading to violent clashes.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Gold was found in this specific place in California in 1848.
What is Sutter's Mill?
This factory system, where young women were recruited from farms to work in textile mills and lived in company boardinghouses, became a model for early industrialization.
What is the Lowell System (or Lowell Mills)?
Before an election, candidates from different parties often hold these public events to describe their policy positions versus other candidates.
What are debates?
These acts, passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, closed Boston Harbor and placed Massachusetts under martial law. (DOUBLE JEOPARDY)
What are the Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)?
In 1857, this Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in federal territories.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?