Founding Fathers and Presidents
Growth and Industry (The North)
Expansion and Conflict
Slavery, Resistance, and Reform
Big Decisions
100
He set the standard for future presidents by stepping down after two terms and creating a Cabinet.
Who is George Washington?
100
This invention by Eli Whitney made it easier to clean seeds from fiber, but unintentionally caused slavery to expand massively.
What is the Cotton Gin?
100
This Native American woman served as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
100
This escaped slave became a world-famous author and speaker, proving that African Americans were intellectually equal to whites.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
The advice George Washington gave in his Farewell Address regarding foreign nations.
What is "Stay Neutral" (or avoid permanent alliances)?
200
This first Secretary of the Treasury created a controversial financial plan that included a National Bank.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
This massive construction project connected the Great Lakes to New York City, making trade faster and cheaper.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
The belief that the United States was destined by God to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The social movement dedicated to banning or limiting the consumption of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
200
The Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison established this power, allowing the Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
300
He won the "Revolution of 1800" election and later purchased the Louisiana Territory, despite his strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Henry Clay wanted tariffs, new roads and canals, and a National Bank. He called his plan this .....
The American System
300
This British practice of kidnapping American sailors and forcing them into the British Navy was a major cause of the War of 1812.
What is Impressment?
300
He led a violent slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 that terrified slaveholders and led to stricter slave codes.
Who is Nat Turner?
300
The Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland ruled that states could not tax this federal institution.
What is the National Bank?
400
Known as "Old Hickory," this President was loved by the "common man" but criticized for the Spoils System and Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
This communication invention used electrical pulses to send messages instantly over long distances using Morse Code.
What is the Telegraph?
400
This Shawnee leader attempted to unite Native American tribes into a confederacy to stop white settlement in the West.
Who is Tecumseh?
400
This meeting in New York in 1848 was the first major convention to demand rights and suffrage (voting) for women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
These laws passed by John Adams were unpopular because they limited free speech and targeted immigrants.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
500
He was the President during the Mexican-American War who fulfilled the goal of Manifest Destiny by acquiring the Southwest.
Who is James K. Polk?
500
The "Market Revolution" refers to the shift from making goods at home to this new way of organizing the economy.
What is buying and selling goods (or the Factory System)?
500
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. territories like California, Nevada, and Utah.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
This "Great" religious movement inspired many people to improve society through reforms like abolition and education.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
500
The political crisis where South Carolina tried to cancel a federal tariff, and President Jackson threatened to use the army.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
