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100

This is the nickname given to the time era where technology and transportation developments shifted the economy toward markets rather than subsistence.

What was the Market Revolution?

100

This congressman became famous for leading the calls for the War of 1812 and the Missouri Compromise.

Who was Henry Clay?

100

In this conflict, the U.S. and Britain fought over the British practice of impressment upon U.S. sailors.

What was the War of 1812?

100

This poem, written during the War of 1812, eventually became the U.S. national anthem.

What was the Star Spangled Banner?

100

This was a massive land deal agreed on by Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon, which doubled the size of the United States for $15 million.

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

100

Thomas Jefferson defeated this man in the election for president in 1800.

Who was John Adams?

200

Andrew Jackson became an "icon" after leading troops to victory in this battle.

What is the Battle of New Orleans?

200

New job demands and opportunities led to the first significant European immigrant wave from these two groups of people (nationalities).

What were the Irish and the Germans?

200

This invention revolutionized cross-country communication in the early 1800s.

What was the telegraph?

200

This infamous vice-president declared that South Carolina did not have to follow federal taxation policies...also, he adamantly loved and defended slavery and was a pretty terrible person all-around.

Who was John C. Calhoun?

200

This Indigenous leader attempted to unite all tribes in military defense against U.S. expanionism.

Who was Tecumseh?

200

This was the nickname for the U.S. congressmen who clamored for war against Britain in 1812.

Who were the War Hawks?

300

This was a political party from the early 1800s whose platform was nativism and anti-Catholic rhetoric.

What was the Know-Nothing Party?

300

The Missouri Compromise proposed that this new state would enter the union as a "free" state, while Missouri would enter as a slave state.

What is Maine?

300

This was Henry Clay's proposal for using federal money to build roads, canals, and a national bank.

What was the American System?

300

The Red Sticks of the Southeast who fought against Andrew Jackson belonged to this larger Indigenous Nation.

What are the Creeks?

300

This failed economic policy placed by Jefferson failed to stop British impressment and actually hurt the U.S. economy.

What was the Embargo Act?

300

John Deere revolutionized farming as a market, with the development of this tool.

What was the steel plow?

400

This was the nickname for the time period of complete unity when James Monroe almost got unanimously re-elected.

What was the Era of Good Feelings?

400

This was the nickname given by Jackson to the event where Henry Clay supported Quincy Adams for president, over Andrew Jackson.

What was the "corrupt bargain?"

400

The Missouri Compromise proposed the banning of slavery for any new proposed state lying north of this geographic parallel.

What was the 36-30 line?

400

The Federalist Party died off after this failed meeting made them seem unpatriotic and treacherous during the War of 1812.

What was the Hartford Convention?

400

With this declaration, the U.S. basically told Europe that the Americas were now off-limits to future colonization.

What was the Monroe Doctrine?

400

This waterway connected the crop-heavy regions of Northern New York to the new urban cities of the old Northwest (now the Midwest).

What was the Erie Canal?

500

Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks at this battle.

What is the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?

500

The United States acquired the Florida territory with this treaty.

What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?

500

This was the nickname given by Southerners to the tax on imported goods, which made Southern cotton (and slavery) incredibly expensive worldwide.

What was the "Tariff of Abominations?"

500

This was the nickname for the event where John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson squared off - with Jackson threatening military threats against South Carolina.

What was the "Nullification Crisis?"

500

This was the nickname for the first factory program and structure, which employed young immigrant girls as laborers.

What was the Lowell System?

500

This agreement ended the War of 1812.

What is the Treaty of Ghent?