Expansion
Expansion II
War!
Inventions
Jackson
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100
It doubled the size of the United States.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
100
She was the real reason the Lewis and Clark Expedition was such a success.
Who was Sacagawea?
100
America went to war in 1812 because of this British policy of kidnapping American sailors and forcing them into the British Navy.
What was impressment or impressing?
100
It made harvesting crops easier, helping increase profits for farmers and encouraging westward expansion.
What was the mechanical reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
100
Jackson became a household name thanks to winning the Battle of New Orleans during this war.
What was the War of 1812?
100
The policy that told Europe to stay out of the American continents.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
200
They explored the Louisiana Territory?
Who were Lewis and Clark?
200
What became the rallying cry for the Texicans as they fought for their freedom from Mexico?
What was "Remember the Alamo"?
200
Many forts were built on the East coast of the United States after the War of 1812, like this one in Hampton, Va.
What is Fort Monroe?
200
This man made waterway encouraged westward settlement by helping to increase the profits of midwestern farmers as they could now more easily send their crops to the East coast.
What was the Erie Canal?
200
Jackson fired most of the federal bureaucracy with this policy he started.
What was the Spoils System?
200
Monroe's policy of improving this to help America become more industrialized.
What was infrastructure?
300
The United States acquired this area from Spain in 1819.
What was Spain?
300
This war gave America the states of California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona.
What was the Mexican American War?
300
The British burned down this city during the War of 1812.
What was Washington DC?
300
This Samuel Morse invention allowed instant communication.
What was the telegraph?
300
Jackson threated this states governor with death when he threatened to secede from the union over the Tariff of 1832.
What was South Carolina?
300
America acquired the Louisiana Territory from this nation.
What was France?
400
The United States split this territory with Great Britain in 1846.
What is the Oregon Territory?
400
This president gets credit for completing America's Manifest Destiny.
Who was James K Polk?
400
This political party pretty much disappeared after the War of 1812, because they tried to cooperate with the British and secede from the nation.
What was the Federalist Party?
400
This increased southerners need for land, and unfortunately enslaved Africans.
What was the Cotton 'gin (Eli Whitney)
400
Jackson used the "veto power" to close this institution, causing an economic recession called the Panic of 1837.
What was the Bank of the United States or National Bank?
400
It connected the west to the East Coast and greatly increased the settlement of the west.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
The Texans got their independence from this nation
What was Mexico?
500
This war gave America access to territories of Florida and Oregon.
What was the War of 1812?
500
The Mexican Cession was basically the entire American South West that America won after this war.
What was the Mexican American War?
500
He stole the blueprints for the thread spinning mill and brought them to the states.
Who was Samuel Slater?
500
Jackson is now most notorious for this policy of removing southern Native Americans off the rightful lands and forcing them to walk to the "Indian Territories" during the 1830s.
What was the Trail of Tears?
500
It was the line of latitude that the Compromise of 1846 divided the Oregon territory.
What was the 49th parallel?