Vocabulary
New Government
Jefferson
North vs. South
Moving West
100
an area not yet a state
territory
100
This political party was led by Alexander Hamilton
Federalists
100
Rules for settling the Northwest Territory that included a school in each divided section of land.
Land Ordinance of 1785
100
True or False: The invention of the cotton gin increased the number of slaves in the south
True
100
Name one of the important routes pioneers traveled westward on
Oregon Trail or Santa Fe Trail 
200
The person who watches over slaves
overseer
200
This political party was led by Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republicans
200
Which state was NOT part of the Northwest Territory?Ohio, Indiana, Idaho, Michigan or Wisconsin
Idaho
200
This man invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
200
Andrew Jackson's act that states that Native Americans had to move west of the Mississippi River
Indian Removal Act
300
not taking sides in an argument
neutral
300
Washington's most important advisors belonged to his what?
Cabinet
300
Who won the war of 1812?
Neither the U.S. or Britain
300
This city in Massachusetts housed girls so they could work in the factories.
Lowell
300
This canal made it possible to ship goods between New York City and the Great Lakes region.
The Erie Canal
400
waterway dug by people to connect two bodies of water
canal
400
True or False: The U.S. became involved in France's Revolution
False
400
This 1807 act made it illegal for U.S. merchants to import or export any goods.
Embargo Act
400
What is the function of the cotton gin?
It removes the seeds of cotton
400
The tragic march of Native Americans from their land to the Indian Territory
Trail of Tears
500
An act or a decision that sets and example for later actions.
precedent
500
In 1974, farmers did not like the tax that was placed on what?
Whiskey
500
Why did Thomas Jefferson want to buy New Orleans?
New Orleans was a key link to markets in the east and in Europe.
500
What was the slogan for cotton at that time?
500
A settler-colonial belief in the 19th-century U.S. that white American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
