1800-1808
The name of the purchase which doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Who are the British and the Americans?
The name of the president from 1828-1836; former war hero, who hated the national bank and native americans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The name of this former slave who made 13 trips back to free at least 70 slaves.
Who is Harriet Tubman (or Araminta Ross)?
The name of the war in which the Battle of the Alamo took place.
What is the Texas Revolution?
The two explorers Jefferson sent out to explore and map the new Louisiana territory
Who is Lewis and Clark?
The battle (or fort) which inspired the creation of the Star-Spangled Banner
What is Fort McHenry?
The man who proposed the Compromise of 1833, which meant lowering the tariff of Abominations to pre-tariffs levels, solving a crisis that almost split the nation.
Who is Henry Clay?
The name of this former male slave who escaped from slavery disguised as a sailor, taught himself to read, and wrote an autobiography.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Eli Whitney's invention that caused slavery in the South to explode.
What is the cotton gin?
The Native American woman who helped explore the Louisiana territory
Who is Sacagawea?
The congressman who encouraged war with Britain
Who are the War Hawks?
The name for the forced removal of the Cherokee from their native lands to Oklahoma.
What is the Indian Removal Act (or the Trail of Tears)?
The name of the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that helped make abolition more emotional and personal for people
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The name of the war fought between Mexico and the United States.
What is the Mexican-American war?
The term for the English or French navy forcing US sailors to work for them.
What is impressment?
The treaty that ended the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
The situation where South Carolina almost seceded because of heavy tariffs on imported goods in the 1830s.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The name of the system of people and safehouses that led slaves to freedom
What is the Underground Railroad?
The president and general who led the Mexican army against the Alamo
Who is General Santa Anna?
The name for when President Jefferson stopped trading with England and France, in an attempt to punish them.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
The name of the battle which pushed Andrew Jackson into prominence.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
The Supreme Court case that allowed the Cherokee to stay in Georgia, which President Jackson ignored.
What is Worcester v Georgia?
Regional rivalries between North and South is called...
What is Sectionalism?
What is Missouri?