Mexican American War
Adams & Jefferson
Presidencies
Madison & Monroe
Presidencies
Andrew Jackson
Market Revolution
& Abolition
100
What river did Texas say was the border between them and Mexico?
Rio Grande
100
This fiasco saw three low-level French officials demand a bribe from U.S. diplomats to speak with the French foreign minister.
What is the XYZ Affair?
100
The cotton gin had this effect on slavery.
What is causing slavery to expand or increase?
100
Jackson ignored the ruling of the Supreme Court and continued with this act passed by Congress.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
100
Invented by Samuel Morse, this allowed quick communication over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
200
What general marched into Mexico city and forced Mexico to surrender?
General Winfield Scott
200
These acts targeted foreign-born supporters of the Democratic-Republican party.
What are the Alien & Sedition Acts?
200
Henry Clay formulated this plan to keep the balance in Congress between the number of slave & free states in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
This practice of a newly-elected president replacing supporters of the previous administration with their own political supporters was started by Jackson.
What is the spoils system?
200
The change where people shifted to buying and selling goods rather than making them for themselves.
What is the market revolution?
300
What two states rebelled against Mexico before the US got involved?
California and Texas
300
The Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison is important for establishing this principle.
What is judicial review?
300
This policy by the British navy was a reason why the United States went to war with Britain during the War of 1812.
What is impressment?
300
Jackson accused these two of making a "corrupt bargain" after the contentious 1824 election that shut Jackson out of the Presidency.
Who are John Quincy Adams & Henry Clay?
300
This great man-made construction project linked the waterways between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
What year did Texas join the US officially?
1848
400
This philosophy was put into practice by Jefferson when he reduced the size of the army, halted a planned expansion of the navy, and reduced taxes.
What is Jeffersonian Republicanism?
400
James Monroe and Henry Clay's American system had 3 points. Name two of them.
1) What is establishing a protective tariff 2) What is rechartering the national bank. 3) What is sponsoring the development of transportation systems (roads, canals, railroads)
400
This Native American tribe took the 1000 mile journey known as the "Trail of Tears" from Georgia to the Indian territory in modern Oklahoma.
Who are the Cherokee?
400
This was a name of a large group of textile mills in Massachusetts that mostly employed women.
What are the Lowell textile mills?
500
What treaty ended the Mexican American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
500
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison used the VA & KY state legislatures to cite this principle in response to the Alien & Sedition Acts.
What is the principle of nullification?
500
This U.S. general led American forces to victory at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
This state protested the Tariff of 1828 (aka Tariff of Abominations) by threatening to secede if customs officials tried to collect import taxes.
What is South Carolina?
500
This outspoken abolitionist and former slave spoke at a women's rights convention where she argued against those who said that because she was a woman she was weak and because she was black, she was not feminine.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
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