Section 1
What is the name of the President of the US during the time that many Indians were forced to move to Indian Territory?
Andrew Jackson
What name was given to the forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia
The Trail of Tears
What country controlled the land west of the Mississippi River in the antebellum period?
Spain
Based on number of employees, which is the largest branch of both federal and state governments?
Executive branch
What political party did Alexander Hamilton belong to?
Federalists
What is the city that became the second largest port in the US?
New Orleans
What legislation allowed Georgia to push the Creek and the Cherokee out of the state and to seize their lands?
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
How was the Battle of New Orleans won?
Jackson's troops attacked from behind cotton bales in a carefully chosen location, Pakenham's troops continued marching once all the captains were killed in battle.
The system by which the national level and the state level of government share power over the same territory and groups of people is known as:
Federalism
Who was president of the United States during the war of 1812?
James Madison
What could slaves not do without the permission of their owners?
Get married
The belief that the westward expansion of the United States to the Pacific Ocean was inevitable is known as
Manifest destiny
This idea was the idea to get rid of slavery
Abolition
This place was fought over before the Mexican American war and was host to many southerners before the war
Texas
What is the significance of the Treaty of Ghent?
It stopped the fighting, New Orleans was now protected, England stopped impressing american sailors and Stopped encouraging Indians to attack.
What is the word that means "before the war"?
Antebellum
What is the type of transportation that made land travel better during the Antebellum Period?
The railroad
This bill made it so all slaves in the confederate states were to be released after the war
Emancipation Proclamation
George Washington's beliefs about political parties was...?
Bad - he wanted to remain imparital
What is a mudslinging campaign?
Form of negative campaigning that has the metaphorical implication that candidates or politicians are throwing mud at each other
What is the name of the US general who defended New Orleans in the Battle of New Orleans?
Andrew Jackson
What are some causes of the war of 1812?
England encouraged Indians to attack Americans, British navy impressed U.S. sailors into service.
What was the organized escape plan for southern slaves fleeing their owners?
The underground railroad
Who was the first leader of the Democratic-Republicans?
Thomas Jefferson
What was the political issue between the North and South that differed greatly in terms of their views of the power that the federal government should have over state governments.
Each States’ rights