First presidents
George Washington issued a Proclamation of Neutrality to avoid choosing sides between these two countries that were constantly at war.
Who were the French and the British (France and England)?
This infrastructure was created to increase trade and the flow of goods from the Great Lakes to New York City.
What is the Erie Canal?
Abolitionists often spoke at these places in northern states about the evils of slavery.
What are churches?
The treaty that was made to keep the Cherokee and Creek on their land in Georgia was broken because this was discovered there.
What is gold?
The United States invaded this country unsuccessfully, and have been allies ever since.
What is Canada?
State where Jackson was born.
What is North Carolina?
The Alien and Sedition Acts violated this amendment, because it stated that individuals or the press could not criticize acts of Congress or the President.
What is the 1st amendment, Freedom of Speech?
The Louisiana Territory was formally explored and surveyed by the the Corps of Discovery, led by these two men, and particularly their interpreter, Sacagawea.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
This abolitionist founded a newspaper called "The Liberator".
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This Native American group fought three different wars against the United States, eventually having to retreat further south into Florida, west to Oklahoma Territory, and even some further to Mexico (where slavery was illegal).
Who were the Seminoles?
This city, including the White House was burned by the British in the War of 1812.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This was Jackson's political party.
Who were the democrats?
He killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel at the same time he was the Vice President of the United States.
Who was Aaron Burr?
Missouri applied to the Union as a slave state, to keep the balance even, this state was admitted as a free state in the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
This escaped slave from Eastern Maryland became a leading abolitionist after his escape, speaking throughout the north and risking his freedom to do so.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
These people died the most frequently on the forced migrations of the multiple Trails of Tears from the Southeastern United States to the Oklahoma Territory.
Who were the elderly and small children/babies?
The British were kidnapping American sailors and forcing them into service in their navy, which was one of the main causes of the War of 1812. This is the name for that practice.
What is impressment?
Jackson vowed to he would never forgive his political opponents after he was elected to the presidency but his wife died for this reason.
What is he believed their attacks on her reputation and character had hurt her so much it killed her?
Who was John Adams?
This future state first declared its independence from Mexico and was, for a short time, an independent country.
What is Texas?
Beginning in Massachusetts and enacted elsewhere throughout the north, laws were passed to protect African Americans from these people who travelled to the northern cities to recapture them.
Who were slave/bounty hunters?
True or False - Andrew Jackson made an exception for the Native Americans and their families who fought in his troops, they were not required to relocate to Oklahoma Territory.
What is FALSE.
At the end of the War of 1812 the United States would gain this territory from Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty.
What is Florida?
Jackson declared a war on this because he thought it was corrupt and only favored the wealthy, he also didn't trust the paper it printed.
What was the Bank of the United States?
This president authorized the purchase of Louisiana Territory from France, even though he didn't think the Constitution gave him the power to do so.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This was the western territory that became a state, where Andrew Jackson met his wife and owned their plantation, The Hermitage.
What is Tennessee?
It was believed that Frederick Douglass' biological father, and many other enslaved people's biological fathers were these people.
Who were their enslavers/owners?
True or False - There were not any presidents before or after Andrew Jackson that supported and pursued Indian removal policies.
What is false. There were several presidents, before and after Jackson that supported and pursued Indian Removal policies.
This battle (fought after the peace treaty was signed) had Andrew Jackson leading his underdog troops against the British, to gain control over the Mississippi River.
What is New Orleans?
This was Jackson's response when the Supreme Court ruled that the Indian Removal Act was unconstitutional.
What is he ignored it and had the Indians removed anyway.