Elections
Texas Independence
Trail of Tears
Mexican American War
Odds & Ends
100
He won the election of 1824? He won the election of 1828?
Who is John Quincy Adams (1824)? Who is Andrew Jackson (1828)?
100
The General of the Texan army & he became the first president Texas.
Who is Sam Houston
100
The tribe that was forced to relocate from Georgia to Oklahoma.
What is Cherokee?
100
The president of the US during the Mexican-American War. The dictator of Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
Who is James Polk? (US) Who is Santa Anna? (Mexico)
100
Wrote the Monroe Doctrine.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
200
The amendment in which stated that if a presidential candidate did not win by a majority that the House of Representatives would decide.
What is the 12th amendment?
200
The dictator of Mexico.
Who is Santa Anna
200
The mineral that was found in Georgia.
What is gold.
200
Reason that Texas wanted to join the Union. Santa Anna's warning to the US if they annexed Texas.
What is protection from Mexican invasion? What is equilvant to declaring war on Mexico?
200
Maine admitted to the Union as a free state. Missouri admitted to the Union as a slave state. Any state admitted into the Union above the 36 degree 30 minutes line North would be free and anything below would be a slave state. The man who wrote the compromise.
What is the Missouri Compromise? Who is Henry Clay?
300
The one political party during the election of 1824. The two political parties in the election of 1828 & the people they supported.
What is the democratic-Republicans (1824)? 1828- Jacksonian Democrats-Andrew Jackson Republicans/Whigs- John Quincy Adams
300
The length of the Alamo. The number of Texans killed during the battle of the Alamo. The number of Mexicans killed during the battle of the Alamo.
What is 13 days? What is 200 Texans killed? What is 600 Mexicans Killed?
300
The length of the Trail of Tears. The number of Cherokees that died on the Trail of Tears.
What is 1200 miles? What is 4000 people?
300
Date that the US declared war on Mexico. The excuse the president made to persuade Congress to declare war on Mexico.
What is May 13, 1846? What is "American shed on American Soil?"
300
The law that Andrew Jackson signed that relocated ALL Native Americans west of the Mississippi. The Seminoles, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek.
What is the Indian Removal Act? What is the "Five Civilized Tribes?"
400
The fraud that Andrew Jackson accused John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay once Clay was appointed to the Secretary of State by Adams.
What is corrupt bargaining?
400
Thousands of Texans fleeing eastward.
What is Runaway Scrape?
400
The U.S. general that was in charge of relocating the Native Americans.
Who is General Winfield Scott?
400
The land that was gained in the Gadsden Purchase.
What is 30,000 miles of New Mexico and Arizona?
400
The state that tried to secede from the Union. The reason this state wanted to leave the Union.
What is South Carolina? What is the Tariff of 1828 & 1832 in which raised the cost of manufactured goods from other countries.
500
The four candidates of the Election of 1824 and the region that supported them.
Who is John Quincy Adams (New England), Andrew Jackson (South & West), Henry Clay (West), William Crawford (South)
500
The battle in which Texas gained it's independence. The length of the battle until the US defeated Mexico.
What is San Jacinto? What is 18 minutes?
500
The month and year that the Trail of Tears ended. The average number of people buried at each stop. The forms of transportation used to relocate the Native Americans.
What is March 1839? What is 14 or 15? What is walking, horse, oxen, wagons.
500
The four points of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What is 1. Mexico gave up claim to the US and recognized the Rio Grande River as the border 2. Mexico gave up New Mexico and California 3. US paid Mexico $15 million for 4. US paid American citizens $3 million in claims made against Mexico?
500
Jackson's opinion on the National bank. The level of government Jackson believed should control the majority of the power.
What is a monster that was harmful to the country? What is the state government?