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Revolution of 1800
War of 1812
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The Revolution of 1800 resulted in the election of this president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Although this battle was fought after the war had ended, it was still important as it solidified the terms of the treaty.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
100
This woman organized the first major convention for women's rights.
What is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
100
This is the name given to social, economic, and political differences between geographic areas in the United States.
What is sectionalism?
100
This president was the in office during the War of 1812, and as such, it was nicknamed Mr. "his" War.
What is James Madison (Mr. Madison's War)?
200
The Revolution of 1800 signified of a complete power transfer from the Federalists to this political party.
What is the Democratic Republicans?
200
This is the name of the treaty that ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
200
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with help from Lucretia Mott, penned this document modeled after our own Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
200
This former slave turned abolitionist is most famous for his self titled autobiography.
What is Frederick Douglass?
200
This Battle of New Orleans war hero was also the seventh president and the one who asked Congress to approve the Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears) in 1830.
What is Andrew Jackson?
300
One of Jefferson's greatest accomplishments was the acquisition of this land which was procured from the French.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
This future president was a war hero in the battle of Tippecanoe where the Native American leader Tecumseh was killed.
What is William Henry Harrison?
300
The building of roads, railroads, and canals helped to strengthen a true national economy. This was the first canal to set it all in motion.
What is the Erie Canal?
300
Although Congress outlawed this in 1807, the practice of owning slaves within the states was still very much legal for years to come.
What is the slave trade?
300
This transcendentalist author wrote "On Civil Disobedience" to explain why he spend time in jail as opposed to paying taxes for a war he did not support.
What is Henry David Thoreau?
400
The election of 1800 earned this nickname because it marked a peaceful transition from one political group to another without violence and proved the American political institution was a success.
What is the Revolution of 1800?
400
This battle inspired the Star Spangled Banner as Francis Scott Key watched the British bombard Fort McHenry.
What is the Battle of Baltimore?
400
This literary movement valuing spirituality and the individual was marked by authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson.
What is transcendentalism?
400
This is the euphemism or nickname given to slavery.
What is the peculiar institution?
400
Despite growing up in the South and owning slaves, these two individuals were active abolitionists and women's rights advocates.
What is the Grimke sisters?
500
This man tied Jefferson in presidential votes and instead became his vice president. He is also famous for mortally wounding Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Who is Aaron Burr?
500
These are some of the reasons the War of 1812 was fought.
What is British impressement of American sailors into their navy or British refusal to leave western outposts?
500
Religious reformation saw the Second Great Awakening. Part of this movement was the birth of the Mormon church, founded by this person.
What is Joseph Smith?
500
Slavery may have ceased to exist for the most part on its own if not for this invention by Eli Whitney.
What is the cotton gin?
500
in 1823, James Monroe's foreign policy famously said (paraphrased), ' we are an independent nation, and nobody best mess with us. North America is NOT up for grabs.' These sentiments came to be known as this by the year 1850.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?