Early America
The Articles of Confederation.
Thomas Jefferson is known for making the Louisiana Purchase. From which country did the United States buy the Louisiana Territory?
This battle, a US victory technically fought as the war had just ended, made Andrew Jackson a household name.
The Battle of New Orleans
This technology, which could be put into a ship or train engine, revolutionized the speed with which Americans could travel.
Steam Engine
The Gold Rush in the mid-19th century had a profound impact on the settlement of this future state.
California
This group would only support the Constitution if a bill of rights was added.
The Anti-Federalists
The US fought this country in the War of 1812
Andrew Jackson would engage in over 100 of these in his lifetime
duels
This invention sped up the process for removing seeds from cotton, thereby increasing the demand for cotton and the need for enslaved labor.
The cotton gin
This trail took several years to complete and usually started in Missouri.
The Oregon Trail
The first political parties were the Federalists vs. the
Democratic-Republicans
Thomas Jefferson owned nearly 600 enslaved people in his lifetime and had four children with this enslaved woman.
Andrew Jackson was defeated by John Quincy Adams in the 1824 election in a tie-breaker determined by this politician who was then Speaker of the House.
Henry Clay
This revolution, part of the larger industrial revolution, connected the various regions of the US into one unified economy.
The Market Revolution
Some of the Americans who settled in Mexico and claimed independence were killed in this battle. It became a rallying cry for Americans to move to Texas to join the fight.
The Alamo.
Democratic Republicans
The Americans didn't fight well in the beginning and this key American city was burned down by the British.
Washington, D.C.
The Nullification Crisis occurred when South Carolina threatened to leave the union unless the "Tariff of Abominations" was repealed. Which politician led this effort?
John C. Calhoun
The construction of the this technology greatly improved westward transportation in the United States.
Transcontinental Railroad
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and required Mexico to give up 1/3 of their territory.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Alexander Hamilton belonged to this political party, which was mostly urban, educated elites who disliked the violence of the French Revolution
The British practice of kidnapping American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British navy was known as this.
During the 1800s, voting rights expanded for this group of people
White men
This technology, which ran along railway lines, allowed messages to be transmitted quickly using morse code and customers picked up their printed messages from offices located near railways.
Telegraph.
No slaves (respect the Mexican constitution's ban on slavery).