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Washington Takes Office
Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
The War of 1812
American Indians and the Trail of Tears
Women and African Americans Fight for Freedom
100
An official ceremony to make someone President.
What is an inauguration?
100
An experienced woodsman and pioneer in the Appalachian Mountains who helped clear the Wilderness Road.
Who was Daniel Boone?
100
The War of 1812 was fought on both ____ and ____.
What is land and sea?
100
President Monroe's speech to Congress warning European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
A person who moves from one place to live in another. *Hint: Between 1840 and 1860, most of these people came from Ireland and Germany.
What is an immigrant?
200
A group of people chosen by each state to vote for the President and Vice President. * Hint: The number of this group equals its two senators plus the number of its members in the House of Representatives.
What is the Electoral College?
200
The area of land that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains that the U.S. bought from France for only $15 million dollars.
What is the Louisiana Territory? or What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was written by this American lawyer as he watched the British bombard Fort McHenry through the night.
Who was Francis Scott Key?
200
Andrew Jackson's nickname.
What is "The People's President" or "Old Hickory" (from the War of 1812)?
200
Invented the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
300
A group of advisers to the President. Positions include Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, and Attorney General.
What is the President's Cabinet?
300
The name of the Shoshone guide that acted as an interpreter for Lewis and Clark.
Who was Sacagawea?
300
When the British attacked Washington D.C. and President Madison and his wife, Dolley Madison, were forced to flee the city. Dolley grabbed a painting of this person before leaving the White House.
Who was George Washington?
300
The right to vote. *Hint: It sounds painful.
What is suffrage?
300
The movement to fight or end slavery.
What is the abolition movement?
400
A group of people who have the same beliefs about government.
What is a political party?
400
President at the time of the Louisiana Purchase.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
One effect of the War of 1812.
What is a feeling of patriotism or nationalism about the U.S.?
400
A law passed by Congress that said that American Indians in the Southeast had to move to a territory west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
400
The name of the convention in which Elizabeth Cady Stanton read a statement called the Declaration of Sentiments, which was based on the Declaration of Independence. It read: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal."
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
Name of the political party that followed Thomas Jefferson that wanted the economy to be based on farming and small crafts and were against the idea of a national bank.
What were the Democratic-Republicans?
500
Give at least one reason for Lewis and Clark's expedition.
What is to find a water to route to the Pacific Ocean (didn't exist). What is to learn about the American Indians. What is to study and take notes on the landforms, plants, and animals they found.
500
Three causes of the War of 1812.
What is Britain blocking trade between the U.S. and France. What is capturing American sailors and forcing them to work on British ships. What is a conflict over the Northwest Territory of the U.S./ or Britain supplying weapons to the Native Americans.
500
The sad journey of American Indian groups to Indian Territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
500
The effect that the cotton gin had on slavery in the south.
What is it increased slavery in the south?