Growth of a New Nation - Unit 4
Sectionalism - Unit 5
Reform - Unit 5
Jacksonian Era - Unit 6
Expansion of the Nation - Unit 7
Division of the Nation - Unit 7
100

This person was the 3rd President of the United States who made the Louisiana Purchase, dealt with the Barbary Pirates, and got Congress to pass the Embargo Act which stopped all foreign trade. 

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

100

This person invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

Who is Eli Whitney?

100

Abolition, women's suffrage, and improvements in public education and prisons are examples of this.

What are reform movements in the 19th century?

100

As shown by the Tennessee Constitution of 1834, this two-word phrase describes the non-property-owning white men who gained the right to vote in the 1820s and 1830s and the president they largely supported.

What is Jacksonian Democracy?

100

After the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, __________________ was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845 before becoming the 28th state admitted into the United States.

What is Texas?

100

After the California Gold Rush in 1849, immigrants from this Asian country established California's first Asian American community while facing harsh discrimination. 

What is China? 

200

The Convention of 1818 established the border between the United States and _________________, while the Adams-Onis Treaty gave the United States ______________________ from Spain. 

What are Canada and Florida? 

200

This event, which began in America with Samuel Slater's and Francis Lowell's northern factories, led to increased urbanization in Northern cities as farmers began moving into cities to find work. 

What is the Industrial Revolution? 

200

These organizations fought for workers' rights and eventually helped secure safer working conditions, an end to child labor, and the 40-hour workweek.

What are trade unions?

200

Under Chief Justice John Marshall, these two Supreme Court cases strengthened the judicial branch by reinforcing the Court's power of judicial review while a reinforcing the supremacy of federal laws over state laws. 

What are McCulloch vs. Maryland and Gibbons vs. Ogden?

200

The 1872 cartoon "American Progress" by John Nast depicts which important 19th century concept that deals with America's westward expansion.

What is Manifest Destiny?

200

This allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, created a strict fugitive slave law, and allowed the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.

What is the Compromise of 1850?

300

1) The Constitution is the law of the land.

2) The Constitution must be followed when there is conflict.

3) The Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional. 

What are the three principles of judicial review as established by the Supreme Court case Marbury vs. Madison

300

Completed in the 1820s, this waterway helped connect the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, increasing trade between the northern, southern, and western parts of the United States

What is the Erie Canal?

300

Political instability after the Revolutions of 1848; religious persecution; employment opportunities in cities; cheap available farmland.

What are push and pull factors for German immigration in the mid-19th century?

300

The event began when South Carolina refused to collect a federal tariff on imported goods, claiming that they did not have to follow federal law. In response, Congress passed a Force Bill, giving President Andrew Jackson the power to send federal troops to SC to enforce the tariff. 

What was the Nullification Crisis?
300

This western trail was the path a religious group facing persecution took to the Great Salt Lake area in modern Utah.

What is the Mormon Trail?

300

Debates between these two candidates for Seante from Illinois in 1858 focused on slavery. The Democratic candidate supported popular sovereignty, while the Republican candidate wanted to stop the spread of slavery.  

Who were Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln? 

400

According to the text, this is the main reason for the Monroe Doctrine.

What was the desire of the United States to close North and South America from any future European colonization? 

400

The above image depicts this 1831 event.

What is the Nat Turner slave rebellion? 

400

The above image of a religious revival represents this social movement of the 19th century.

What is the 2nd Great Awakening?

400

In the "Corrupt Bargain" after the Election of 1824, this person got his supporters in the House of Representatives to vote for John Quincy Adams, allowing Adams to become President despite losing the popular and electoral vote to Andrew Jackson. As a result, he was appointed as Adams' Secretary of State.

Who is Henry Clay? 

400

According to the map, this territory was open to slavery under the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

What is the Arkansas Territory?

400

Pro-slavery Representative Preston Brooks' attack on anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner was a result of this 1854 Act. 

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

500

Neither the United States nor Britain gained or lost land; the British did not stop the practice of impressment; the British abandoned support for Native Americans; and an increased sense of American nationalism.

What are the results of the War of 1812/What is the significance of the Treaty of Ghent? 

500

An agrarian economy; a commitment to white supremacy and slavery; and a small, wealthy landed class with significant political power.

What are aspects of antebellum (before the Civil War) Southern society? 

500

Abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Elihu Embree spread their message primarily through this medium. 

(How did they spread their anti-slavery message?)

What are newspapers? 

500

This economic crisis was caused by Andrew Jackson's closure of the Bank of the United States and led to unemployment and economic hardship. 

What was the Panic of 1837? 

500

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago, which gave about 500,000 square miles of territory, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, to the United States; the creation of the border between Texas and Mexico at the Rio Grande River.

What are results of the Mexican-American War?

500

The area in orange with the black arrow was acquired from Mexico in 1853. It completed the United States' southern border and was supposed to be the route for the Southern Pacific Railroad. 

What is the Gadsden Purchase?