Foreign Stuff
Who did Thomas Jefferson buy Louisiana from in 1803?
France
What republic was annexed as a state?
Texas
List two characteristics of the Age of the Common Man:
Universal white male suffrage, the spoils system, political campaigning, rise in interest groups
What is a tarriff?
A tax on imports
What note is the second string on a guitar tuned to in standard tuning?
What was the War of 1812 fought over?
British interference with trade
What route were the Native Americans put on as a result of the Indian Removal Act?
Trail of Tears
Opposed Andrew Jackson and the Democrats
What tariff did South Carolina try to nullify?
Tarriff of 1832
Which method of cooling to Harley-Davidson motorcycles primarily use?
Air Cooling
What was the foreign policy of the U.S. after the War of 1812 and what did it state?
The Monroe Doctrine: No Europeans in the Western Hemisphere
Name three territories that were gained as a result of the Mexican-American War?
California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado
What was the political platform of the Know-Nothings?
Opposed Irish and German immigration
What court decision stated that slaves living in a free state were not free?
Dred Scott
Where was Elizabeth Cotten born?
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner during the Battle of Fort McHenry?
Francis Scott Key
What was the name given to the idea that white men were divinely ordained to settle the continent?
Manifest Destiny
What was the political platform of the Republican party?
Opposition to slavery
Who were the two women who advocated for women's suffrage?
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Four U.S. states were once independent nations. Name one:
Texas, California, Hawaii, Vermont
What parallel separates the United States and Canada?
49th
Name two tribes that were put on the Trail of Tears:
Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Siminole, Chickasaw
List one of the movements that emerged from the Second Great Awakening:
Temperance, women's suffrage, abolitionism
Who were the two men who led slave revolts in Virginia?
Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner
What term is used when defining the splitting on an atom?
Nuclear Fission