Early Expansion
Presidents and Policies
Western Expansion
Early Presidencies
100

The Louisiana Territory was purchased from this country.

What is France?

100

What president was known as the "President of the Common Man."

Andrew Jackson

100

The belief that American expansion westward was both justified and inevitable

What is Manifest Destiny?

100

Who were the first two presidents of the US?

George Washington and John Adams

200

This document warned Europe not to interfere in the Americas.

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

200

This 1830 law forced Native tribes to move west of the Mississippi River

What is the Indian Removal Act?

200

This state became home of the Natives from the Trail of Tears.

Oklahoma

200
Washington suppressed this rebellion after anger over the first tax passed under his presidency

Whiskey Rebellion

300

What French leader did Thomas Jefferson buy the Lousianna Purchase from?

Napoleon Bonaparte

300

Andrew Jackson expanded voting rights for what group?

White (non property) men

300
This Native American leader attempted to unite tribes in the Midwest against American expansion during the War of 1812

Chief Tecumseh

300

This political party supported Western Expansion, an agricultural economy, and was generally supported by frontier settlers, southern plantation owners, and farmers

Democratic Republicans

400

This major river became fully controlled by the U.S. after the Louisiana Purchase.

What is the Mississippi River?

400

Andrew Jackson threatened to send troops to South Carolina after they refused to enforce a federally passed tariff

Nullification Crisis
400

This Native American was famous for developing the written Cherokee Alphabet

Sequoyah

400

This political party supported the National Bank, govt investment in infrastructure, and was supported by people in the Northeast

Federalists

500

What were the names of the two explorers that navigated the Louisianna Purcahse for the first time?

Merriweather Lewis and William Clark

500

What president led the country into War of 1812

James Madison

500

This Native American was famous for leading the Cherokee tribe through the Trail of Tears and attempting legal challenges to settler expansion

Chief John Ross

500

Why was the election of 1800 so significant?

First peaceful transfer of power between opposing political parties