Sectionalism
This economic plan included a national bank, a protective tariff, and federally funded internal improvements that increased sectionalism in the United States.
What is the American System?
This man was the first president in American History to ask Congress for a declaration of war.
Who is James Madison?
These Acts were passed during the presidency of John Adams in order prevent anyone from criticising the government and to make deporting immigrants easier.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This American foreign policy warned European countries not to intervene in the Western Hemisphere, specifically Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This is the term used to refer to immigrants that came to the United States during the 1840's and 1850's and included mostly Irish and Germans from Western Europe.
What are "Old Immigrants"
This college sport is the oldest sport still being played, first practiced in ancient Egypt and Greece.
What is wrestling?
This "Revolution" contributed to increasing differences between the economies of Northern and Southern states.
What is the Market Revolution?
This hero of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 later became the 7th President of the United States.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while allowing Maine to enter as a Free State and kept the balance of power in Congress between North and South.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This cause of the War of 1812 included the British navy kidnapping American sailors and forcing them into the British navy.
What is impressment?
This invention from the Market Revolution used a series of coded dots and dashes to greatly increase the speed of communication.
What the telegraph?
This president pet was kicked out of the funeral of Andrew Jackson because of its continuous loud use of profanity.
What is a parrot.
Territory gained after signing the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo to end this war led to increase sectionalism over the issue of free and slave states.
What is the Mexican - American War
This man was a war-hawk and the author of the American System, Missouri Compromise, and the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
This Act passed during the presidency of Andrew Jackson and was carried out during the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
The United States refused to annex this independent republic for 10 years in an effort to avoid war with Mexico and maintain peace between free and slave states.
What is the Republic of Texas
This presidential election was seen as a "peaceful revolution" because it was the first peaceful transition of power between opposing political parties.
What is the Election of 1800?
This country has won the most World Cup soccer titles.
What is Brazil
This form of taxation on other countries was supported in Northern cities and used by Andrew Jackson to pay off the national debit.
What is tarrifs
This South Carolinian was a war hawk who served as House of Representative member, Secretary of War, and finally Vice-President to Andrew Jackson. He bitterly opposed tariffs and President Jackson threatened to "secede his head from his body" during the Nullification Crisis.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
In this Supreme Court case, Chief Justice John Marshall ruled on the side of Native Americans, declaring the Indian Removal Act to be unconstitutional.
What is Worcester v. Georgia
This was the idea that Americans had a God given right to expand westward to the Pacifica Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention increased the efficiency and profitability of harvesting a southern crop, also increasing dependence on enslaved labor.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Pictures of a pygmy hippo named Moo Deng won the Internet's heart this year. What does her name translate to in English?
What is "bouncy pork?"
In this clash of supremacy, the state of South Carolina refused to comply with a federal law, compelling the executive branch to use the threat of military action against it's own people.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court strengthened the power of the federal government with his decisions and ruled on the side of Native Americans.
Who is John Marshall?
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson enforced legislation ending all trade with other nations in an effort protect American sailors and end the practice of impressment. Instead, this Act crashed the American economy by ending trade.
What is the Embargo Act?
This federal institution was destroyed by Andrew Jackson because he believed it only protected the interests of the wealthy. Jackson's actions led to high inflation and economic instability.
What is the national bank?
This system increased the efficiency of textile production by using machines and depended on the labor of young, unmarried women who were housed in dormitories on the work site.
What is Lowell Mill/Factory System
Which two people made history as the only father/son duo to play in the NBA at the same time?
Who are LeBron James and Lebron James, Jr (Bronny)?