Washington and Adams
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
Name of the territory purchased from France during Jefferson's first term.
Louisiana
What famous poem was composed by a witness of the failed attempt by the British to take Fort McHenry?
The Star Spangled Banner
What was unique about the election of 1820
Monroe ran unopposed
One of two new agricultural inventions that sped up settlement of "old northwest"
Mechanical reaper and steel plow
The immensely unpopular treaty negotiated with Great Britain during Washington's first term
The Jay Treaty
Judicial Review (the Supreme Court can interpret the Constitution)
What did the Treaty of Ghent (which ended the war) do?
Restored the status quo ante bellum
What economic crisis put a damper on Monroe's first term?
The Panic of 1819
Robert Fulton's invention that greatly increased the speed that goods and people could be transported along water.
The ambassador to France who caused controversy by directly appealing to the American citizens and encouraging them to violate Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality.
Citizen Genêt
Why did the Embargo Act of 1807 backfire?
It hurt American trade/economy far worse than it hurt any other country's
What was one legacy of the war?
The end of the Federalists as a national party
Respect for America's navy and America as a country
End of American involvement in European politics
End of American ambition to conquer Canada
Briefly explain why the Missouri Controversy happened and how it was solved.
Missouri's admission as a slave state threatened to throw off the balance of free and slave states.
Maine was admitted as a free state, and the Louisiana territory was geographically divided into free and slave territory.
The information that Samuel Slater brought back from Europe.
The name of the conflict between the United States and France during Adams's presidency
The Quasi-War
The (First) Barbary War
Name of the battle fought two weeks after the war had ended
The Battle of New Orleans
What land was acquired by the Adams-Onis Treaty?
(East and West) Florida
One of the two major demographic changes that affected women and the family in the mid-1800s
Women were having fewer kids
Women were allowed to choose their husbands with greater frequency (fewer arranged marriages)
How did the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions repudiate the Alien and Sedition Acts, and what was their legacy?
The states declared the federal law unconstitutional.
The authority they claimed was later asserted by the US Supreme Court
OR
The arguments they made were later used by secessionists in the Nullification Crisis and the Civil War.
Name two Federalist policies that James Madison reinstated after the War of 1812.
The Bank of the US
Protective Tariffs
Name two factions that opposed the war and why.
Federalists - believed the Republicans wanted to expand the country and their voter base.
Northeastern Merchants - didn't view impressment as a big deal/still made good money
Old Republicans or "Quids" - believed the war violated Jeffersonian principles
What was declared in the Monroe Doctrine?
That the Americas were no longer to be subject of further European colonization
The US would oppose European interference in the Americas
Briefly describe the Lowell System