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He is responsible for the Louisiana Purchase
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was the natural disaster that contributed to many people from Ireland coming to America.
What was the Irish Potato famine?
This was the English practice of the British removing sailors from American ships and making them serve in the British navy.
What is impressment?
He established the first commercial steamboat service.
Who is Robert Fulton?
This was the treaty where the Spanish turned Florida over to the United States.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Francis Scott Jet wrote this song while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British during the War of 1812.
What is the “Star Spangled Banner “?
He was a runaway slave who became a leading Abolitionist spokesperson.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This was a gathering of mostly women who articulated their vision of what was needed to give women equal status.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This word means “before the war,” specifically the Civil War.
What is antebellum?
He died 31 days after he was inaugurated president in 1841.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This was the law passed by Congress in 1807 that forbade foreign ships to anchor in American ports.
What is the Embargo Act?
This anti-immigrant party was also known as the Know Nothing Party?
What is the American Party?
He was known as the Great Compromiser.
Who was Henry Clay?
This was the most famous battle of the War of 1812 for which Andrew Jackson gained national fame.
What was the Battle of New Orleans?
This word refers to the assertion that states can reject laws passed by the US Congress.
What is nullification?
He developed the horse-drawn mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
This was the Supreme Court decision that found in favor of the Cherokees and against Georgia’s effort to remove them.
What was Worcester v. Georgia?
He developed the cotton gin and the practice of using interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
He was Andrew Jackson’s V-P who was left off the 1832 ticket.
Who was John Calhoun?
This is the name given to the forced removal of Cherokees from Georgia?
What is the Trail of Tears?
This word refers to the notion that states can leave the union if they so desire.
What is secession?
He was the Abolitionist who published “The Liberator.”
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
What resolutions did Jefferson and Madison write about back in 1798 that were favored by John Calhoun?
What were the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
This is the name of the black-face character developed by Thomas Dartmouth Rice that gave its name to segregation laws in the South.
What is Jim Crow?
She wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments” for the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who was Elizabeth Candy Stanton?
This was the economic downturn that doomed the presidency of Martin van Buren.
What is the Panic of 1837?
What word refers to the demand that Abolitionists made that slaves must be emancipated without delay.
What is immediatism?
He was accused of stealing the presidency from Andrew Jackson in 1824 by making the so-called Corrupt Bargain?
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This federal law declared it unlawful for states to not return runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law if 1850?
These are the three cities that made up the German Triangle of American cities where many German immigrants settled.
What are St. Louis, Cincinnati and Milwaukee?