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This state has four I's, four S', and two P's
What is Mississippi?
This sale doubled the size of the United States.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
He was the first President of the US and came to realize that the young nation would not last if he left office without giving some insightful advice.
Who was George Washington?
The nation's first foreign policy that ensured we would not take sides in any foreign conflict or get involved.
What was Neutrality?
With a swipe of the pen, he emancipated the slaves in the Confederate states.
Who was President Abraham Lincoln
In 1776 the American colonists banned together to fight the British for their independence.
What was the American Revolution?
In 1819, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams convinced Spain to give Florida over to the US.
What was the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Political debate/arguments between these two men led to the first political parties
Who were Alexander Hamilton & Thomas Jefferson?
The kidnapping of American sailors by the British off merchant vessels to fight on their side against the French.
What is impressment?
This war ended in a draw even though the war-hawks had the sights set on taking Canada.
What was the War of 1812?
The North American continent is shared between the United States and these two other countries.
What is Canada and Mexico?
It is the desire of the United States to lay claim to all the territory from the Atlantic Ocean moving westward to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This invention made the process of cleaning seeds out of cotton easier thereby increasing the demand for slaves.
What is the "cotton gin"?
This was a warning to the European nations to not interfere with any nation in the Western hemisphere.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
This river is the longest river system in the United States and serves as a transportation system for farmers transporting their goods to the port of New Orleans.
What is the Mississippi River?
This mountain range lays as a barrier between the original 13 states to the east and the Mississippi River to the west.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Though he was criticized for the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, his decision expanded the United States.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This power allows the Supreme Court to condemn actions of the president or Congress as unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
The anger of taxation without representation, the Boston Massacre and the Declaration of Independence all led to this conflict between the British and her American colonies.
What was the Revolutionary War?
These two states donated the land on which the capital city Washington DC was built.
What are Virginia and Maryland?
This man-made waterway connected the Great Lakes of Upstate New York to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
This was the first attempt of government for the newly independent Americans but it did not last long because it was considered weak.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
To halt or stop all trade with a foreign country.
What is an embargo?