Invention and Progress
Economics
Political Drama
Territorial Expansion
War of 1812
Who invented what?
100

What was the most significant development of the Transportation Revolution?

Steam locomotives

100

What is the term for a state breaking away from the Union?

Secession

100

The Shoshone girl that accompanied Lewis and Clark, what was her name?

Sacagawea

200

What is a person who risks personal loss to create and market new ideas or products?

entrepreneur

200

Who was Alexander Hamilton killed by in a duel?

Aaron Burr

200

Which tribe was forcibly removed to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears?

Cherokee

200

During the War of 1812, what city did the British Army burn?

Washington DC

200

Who developed the steel plow?

John Deere

300

How did Francis Cabot Lowell bring higher standards to U.S. factories?

Lowell provided his employees with housing, education, food, and recreation.

300

What country sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States?

France

300

Who was the first president to die in office?

William Henry Harrison.

300

Why did Americans desire to move farther west in the early 1800s?

Land was becoming scarce, and Americans sought greater opportunities for their families.

300

Who was the leading Warhawk before the War of 1812?

Henry Clay

300

Who invented the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

400

Who led the slave rebellion in Virginia?

Nat Turner.

400

What development made New Orleans a major commercial port?

Steamboats

400

What political party was created out of dislike for President Jackson?

The Whig Party

400

What is the trail that Western settlers used to travel through the Cumberland Gap?

Wilderness Road

400

When was the end of War of 1812?

1814

400

Who invented the telegraph?

Samuel F. B. Morse

500

What is the practical use of science?

applied science or technology

500

What vice president wrote a pamphlet on his views of the tariff of 1828?

John C. Calhoun

500

What is a closed meeting of political party leaders?

Caucus

500

Who was the southern half of Louisiana explored by?

Zebulon Pike

500

Who was the author of the Star-Spangled Banner?

Francis Scott Key

500

Who developed the reaping machine?

Cyrus McCormick

600

Who chose the location of the transatlantic cable?

Matthew Maury

600

What president vetoed the Bank Charter Bill in 1832?

Andrew Jackson

600

Who won the favorite son's election?

John Quincy Adams.

600

What was the first frontier state to be added to the Union?

Kentucky

600

Who won the Battle of Lake Erie?

Oliver Hazard Perry

600

Who improved the power loom?

Francis Cabot Lowell.

700

Who was the first female physician in the United States?

Elizabeth Blackwell.

700

How did the Tariff of 1828 caused division between the North and the South?

The Tariff increased the profit of Northern manufacturers at the expense of the South.

700

What policy prohibited European powers from new colonization of the Western Hemisphere?

The Monroe Doctrine.

700

What was the first state of the Northwest Territory to be admitted to the United States?

Ohio

700

How did the War of 1812 affect U.S. foreign relations?

Nations respected the United States, and England and the United States would work together to resolve conflicts.

700

Who developed the steamboat?

Robert Fulton

800

Who opened the Erie Canal?

Dewey Clinton

800

Who proposed the Compromise Tariff of 1833?

Henry Clay

800

What senator from Massachusetts was the greatest orator in Congress?

Daniel Webster.

800

When was the Louisiana Purchase?

1803

800

What was the last great battle of the War of 1812?

New Orleans.

800

Who used nitrous oxide to ease the pain of dental work?

Horace Wells

900

When was the transatlantic cable laid?

1858

900

What statement required all the land to be bought with with gold and silver?

Specie Circular

900

When was the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?

1842

900

When did Spain cede Florida to the United States?

1819

900

What treaty ended the War of 1812?

Treaty of Ghent

900

Who improved the sewing machine?

Isaac Singer