US Presidents (all 100 points)
President who won the Election of 1796.
Who is John Adams?
The country the United States fought in the War of 1812.
What is Great Britain?
The movement to end slavery.
What is the abolition movement?
The election of 1824 was deemed this by Andrew Jackson due to his belief that the voting in the House of Representatives had been manipulated by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.
What is a corrupt bargain?
The belief that the United States was destined by God, or Providence, to expand west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
President who purchased the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Intended to punish England, this devastated the United States' economy in 1807.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Jackson was elected on the premise of being this.
What is the common man?
True or False: The Constitution gives the president the power to purchase land.
False. The Constitution does not state whether the president can purchase land.
President who declared war on Great Britain in 1812.
Who is James Madison?
The Federalist Party lost power following this meeting.
What is the Hartford Convention?
The Women's Rights movement held their first convention in 1848 in this New York town.
What is Seneca Falls?
Jackson rewarding party loyalty with positions in his government was called patronage but many times referenced as this system.
What is the spoils system?
Gold was discovered here in 1849.
What is California?
President who won the Election of 1824 in what is known as the "corrupt bargain."
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This treaty ended the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
These were people who believed that everybody could connect with the spiritual and natural world.
Who are the Transcendentalists?
The crisis of nullification boiled down to the issue of states rights, but the specific issue that led to this crisis involved this.
What are tariffs?
He became President in 1844 because of his expansionist views.
Who is James K. Polk?
President who did not believe in Native American assimilation.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This poem was written based on the Battle of Fort McHenry in 1814.
What is the Star Spangled Banner?
“Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the ‘raw material’ of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers...
Who said this?
Who is Horace Mann?
King Andrew I political cartoon is based around this key event under Jackson's presidency.
What is Jackson vetoing the recharter for the National Bank?
These issues led to the Texas Revolution.