Grab Bag 1
This Western European Nation sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States for the low price of 4 cents and acre (what a bargain!)
What is France?
This compromise, named after one of the states being added to the Union, kept the balance between free and slave states and limited the spread of slavery in new states and territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This doctrine named after the fifth US president told European nations to mind their own business in the US's back yard (the entire Western hemisphere)
What is the Monroe Doctrine
This young newspaper editor became a leading figure in the early stages of the Abolition Movement to end slavery in all of the United States.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This leader of the Federalists opposed the Louisiana Purchase for many reasons, including the belief that the US already had enough land to expand into.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The Compromise of 1850 made slavery illegal in this city, the nation's capitol.
What is Washington D.C.?
This sad name reflects the forced migration of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Georgia.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Garrison believed that the phase "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" from this document was incompatible with the continuing existence of slavery.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Louisiana Purchase expanded from the Mississippi River in the east to this hard-sounding mountain range in the west.
What are the Rocky Mountains
This law required Northern states to return runaway slaves to their owners.
What "okay" state was the final destination of many Native American groups removed from their lands?
What is Oklahoma?
This Virginia slave led an armed revolt to free the slaves. (It didn't end well for him.)
Who is Nat Turner?
Thomas Jefferson was a member of this political party, which sounds like the marriage of two major American political parties today.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
Added as a state at the same time as Missouri, this northeastern state was carved out of its smaller neighbor, New Hampshire.
What is Maine?
This Massachusetts town became known as the model for new factories and industries that sprung up around America in the Market Revolution.
What is Lowell?
When the state of Georgia tried to force the Cherokee people from their lands, what did they do?
Brought a court case to the Supreme Court
"The Revolution of _________" marked the first change of power from one political party to another in American history, showing that elections matter.
What is the Revolution of 1800?
When California wanted to join the Union as a free state, the slave states agreed to compromise if these two western territories were allowed to decide whether to allow slavery themselves.
What are Utah and New Mexico?
This man-made body of water was dug out to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, allowing the flood of products created by the Market Revolution to rapidly spread across the country.
What is the Erie Canal?
Replacing the "outwork system" where workers produced products at home, this system bringing all the workers to one place became the norm during the Market Revolution.
What is the Factory System?