Swimming Down the Erie Canal
What is Lake Erie?
The unprecedented unity at the beginning of Monroe's presidency inspired this title for the period of time
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
More White American Men gained the right to vote, or this term, in the Jacksonian presidency
What is suffrage?
The Cotton Gin transformed Southern cotton production, and it owes its existence to this famous inventor
Who is Eli Whitney?
The Indian Removal Act (1830) was a response to the discovery of this resource on Cherokee land
What is Gold?
This is the name for a manmade waterway
What is a canal?
The splitting of America into North, South, and West, and the subsequent (following) cultural allegiances that people professed to these regions, received this name
What is sectionalism?
What are tarrifs?
This European nation is responsible for the initiation of the African slave trade in the New World
Who is Portugal?
Davy Crockett bravely led men in a courageous attempt to defend this mission site from Mexican aggression
What is the Alamo?
It must have been hard work to construct these roads, which consisted of a series of logs laid side by side
What are Corduroy Roads?
This compromise of 1820 declared that no new slave states could be admitted north of a specific state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
After securing office, Jackson removed any workers who had challenged him and replaced them with supporters, a now common system called this
What is the Spoils System?
Although we recognize slavery as an icon of Southern, antebellum culture, most southerners were actually these type of farmers?
What are Yeomen?
With precious time being purchased by the Battle of the Alamo, the newly formed Republic of Texas was able to declare this man commander-in-chief and future president.
Who is Sam Houston?
After opening the Erie Canal, Steamboats trudged along this new route, owing their invention several decades before to this man
Who is Robert Fulton?
"No European nations may interfere in the affairs of our sphere of influence" declared this famous American document
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Following a new tariff bill passed by congress, the South enforced their right to deny any legislation imposed by the federal government, in what came to be known as this dramatic event
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This woman famously liberated over 300 slaves in her 19 trips she made between the Northern and Southern colonies
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Much debate occurred over the Adams-Onis Treaty (1819), which settled land disputes over the Oregon territory between Britain, America, Spain, and this European nation
Who is Russia?
Taking eight years to be completed, the Erie Canal was famously complete in this year
When is 1825?
What is the North?
Old Hickory gained military prominence, thus facilitating his rise to presidency, through a great victory in this battle in the War of 1812
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
This man's famous slave rebellion resulted in the death of 55 white Virginians and subsequently over 200 slaves
Who was Nat Turner?
This court case decided that it was ultimately illegal for the state of Georgia to remove Cherokees from their land, unless the Federal government states otherwise, that is...
What is Worcester v. Georgia?