Americans sent diplomats to France to negotiate over French aggression on the seas, and French officials demanded bribes.
What is the XYZ Affair?
100
This cash crop became the United States' most important export by 1820. 170 million pounds were produced that year.
What is cotton?
100
These were the first two American parties.
What are the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans?
100
The city where Charles Finney brought his Second Great Awakening revivals because of changing work patterns and alcoholism.
What is Rochester, New York?
100
Many immigrants from these two countries flooded into America during the early and middle 19th century.
What are Germany and Ireland?
200
President Jefferson ceased American trading with Britain and France in his second term.
What is the Embargo Act?
200
This is the year in which the international slave trade came to an end.
What is 1808?
200
This was the given to Hamilton's plan to have the federal government pay back the debts of the individual states following the American Revolution.
What is assumption?
200
He created the first steamboat that led to a transportation revolution in the United States.
Who is Robert Fulton?
200
The name given to the revivals of the early 19th century that emphasized self-improvement, self-reliance, and self-determination.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
300
This agreement ended the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
300
The Missouri Compromise created a geographical line that extended to the Rocky Mountains. Missouri would be a slave state and this state would enter the union as a free state.
What is Maine?
300
This controversial negotiation with the British did not resolve many of the major grievances that the U.S. had with Britain such as impressment. The agreement led to severe criticism from Democratic-Republicans.
What is Jay's Treaty?
300
This city became the major trade port with the Old Northwest via its connection due to the Erie Canal.
What is New York City?
300
This was the ideology during the Antebellum era that critiqued the Market Revolution and advocated for connecting with nature instead of relying on material goods.
What is transcendentalism?
400
The leader of the Haitian Revolution that overthrew French control of the country.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
400
This enslaved blacksmith worked in urban areas in Virginia and planned a massive slave rebellion in Richmond. The plan was discovered and 26 were executed.
Who is Gabriel?
400
These laws were passed after the XYZ Affair and probably cost John Adams the election of 1800 due to their unpopularity.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
400
This city became a major metropolis due to the steamboat. It could export hundreds of thousands of pounds of meat to eastern consumers.
What is Cincinnati?
400
He fled to a pond in Massachusetts to be entirely self-reliant and to meditate in a state of nature.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
500
President Monroe's Secretary of State, he wrote the Monroe Doctrine that warned European countries to stay away from the Western Hemisphere.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
500
Free blacks in the North constructed their own institutional life as evidenced by this Church that attracted many members during the early 19th century.
What is the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
500
The name given to Jefferson's electoral victory against John Adams in which there was a peaceful transition of power from one political party to another.
What is the Revolution of 1800?
500
He invented the steel plow which made farming much more efficient.
Who is John Deere?
500
These evangelical religions grew tremendously during the revivals of the antebellum era.