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1. What did the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions declare?
2. What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
3. Explain the concept of state’s rights.
4. What is a person who lives in the United States but is not a citizen called?
5. What were the first two political parties in the United States?
6. Why were political parties created?
7. What is meant by foreign policy?
8. What act of Congress set up the federal court system?
9. Why did Alexander Hamilton believe it was important to pay the nation’s debts?
10. Why did Hamilton’s plan make the national government more powerful?
11. What is the difference between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson?
12. Why did Washington advise the nation to remain neutral in world affairs?
13. Who held the belief that the nation’s future success lay in manufacturing and trade instead of agriculture?
14. To solve the challenges the new nation faced, President Washington depended on what?
15. What was the XYZ Affair?
16. Why did Washington send 13,000 troops against the farmers in the Whiskey Rebellion?
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17. Who were the candidates in the election of 1800 and what party did each represent?
18. In the Election of 1800, who were the two candidates that tied?
19. Who ultimately determined the winner in the election of 1800?
20. Give examples of Federalist programs Jefferson eliminated; which significant one did he keep?
21. Explain the principle of judicial review.
22. What did the Supreme Court decide in the case of Marbury v. Madison?
23. What problem troubled Jefferson about his purchase of Louisiana?
24. What were some reasons behind the U.S. purchase of Louisiana from France?
25. How did Native Americans aid the Lewis and Clark expedition?
26. Why was Sacagawea so important to American history?
27. What knowledge was gained from expeditions to the Louisiana Territory?
28. Why did Jefferson send the Corps of Discovery into the Louisiana Territory?
29. Explain The Embargo Act.
30. How did the Napoleonic Wars affect the United States?
31. Why were calls for war with Britain stronger in the Trans-Appalachian West than they were in other regions of the nation?
32. Describes the U.S. military at the start of the War of 1812.
33. Why was Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory over a British fleet in 1813 so important?
34. Who was the commander that was victorious at both the Battle of Tippecanoe and the Battle of the Thames?
35. Who saved the Lansdowne Portrait when the British burned Washington D.C.?
36. What inspired Francis Scott Key to write the “Star Spangled Banner”?
37. What was significant about the Battle of New Orleans?
38. What treaty ended the War of 1812?
39. What did the Judiciary Act of 1801 allow President Adams to do?
40. What does the label radical mean?
41. Which Native American leader died while fighting for the British in the War of 1812 in the Battle of the Thames?
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42. How did the invention of the cotton gin affect Native Americans?
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43. Who invented the cotton gin?
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44. What purpose did spirituals serve on Southern plantations?
45. Where were most of the nation’s early factories built, why?
46. How did slaveholders try to control African Americans in the South?
47. How did enslaved African Americans deal with the challenges of slavery?
48. What made the Northeast and Midwest develop a close bond?
49. How did the War of 1812 encourage the growth of U.S. manufacturing?
50. How did transportation improvements in the 1800s affect the nation?
51. Who was the military commander who claimed Florida for the United States?
52. What was the Missouri Compromise?
53. What is nationalism?
54. Explain the American System.
55. What is Nat Turner best known for?
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56. Who demonstrated how a telegraph would allow people to communicate more quickly?
57. What did the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 1819 case of McCulloch v. Maryland say?
58. What did the Monroe Doctrine warn European powers about?
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59. Who was the candidate who was elected president as a result of what some Americans believed to be a corrupt political deal?
60. Why was the election of 1824 not in the spirit of Jacksonian democracy?
61. What was the central principle of Jacksonian democracy?
62. What was Andrew Jackson’s practice of rewarding his political backers called?
63. What president’s election ended control of the government by an educated elite?
64. What political leader from South Carolina was a strong nationalist before becoming a champion of states’ rights?
65. Who was the Massachusetts political leader who was one of the strongest nationalists in the U.S. Senate?
66. Explain why the tariff passed in 1828 was called the Tariff of Abominations?
67. What was the major issue in the Webster-Hayne debate?
68. Why was Andrew Jackson opposed to the doctrine of nullification?
69. What was the forced journey of the Cherokee people from their Georgia homeland to Indian Territory became known as?
70. Why were the Cherokees forced to move west?
71. Why was Sequoya such an important figure in the 1800s?
72. What two things did Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison have in common?
73. What did Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun all have in common?
74. Who supported Jackson’s goal of preserving the Union, but as a founder of the Whig Party was also Jackson’s enemy?
75. The Whig Party was most directly related to what political party?
76. What development led to the Panic of 1837?
77. Who was responsible for the nation’s money supply during most of Jackson’s presidency?
78. Why did Andrew Jackson disliked the national bank and then decide to attack it?
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79. Describe the population of California before the arrival of the forty-niners.
80. Who were the two men that are most closely linked to the discovery of gold in California?
81. Who were the people that went to California during the gold rush called?
82. What route did miners take to reach California?
83. What owned the mill that the discovery of gold in California was near?
84. How long after the gold rush did it take California to have enough people to become a state?
85. What was William Travis best known for?
86. What group of Americans sought religious freedom in the West?
87. What “phrase” did Americans use to explain their expansion westward?
88. What route did most missionaries and farmers moving into the Far West travel along?
89. Who was most responsible for adding California, Oregon, and the Southwest to the United States?
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90. Where did the Donner Party begin their ill-fated journey?
91. Describe the relationship between Tejanos and Americans living in Texas.
92. What did Americans in Texas have against their government in Mexico?
93. Who commanded the Texas army and also was president of the Texas Republic?
94. How did the U.S. government gain control of California?
95. What was one case in which the United States compromised and settled for less land than many Americans wanted was in?
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96. What was the main objective of the nativists?
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97. What was the “Know-Nothing” Party; who were its members?
98. What is a severe food shortage that results in widespread hunger and death called?
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99. Give examples of a push factor in immigration.
100. What was the cheapest way to travel by ship to America in the mid-1800s?
101. People who come to a country to settle are called?
102. Who was the slave that escaped that made dangerous trips back into the South to help other enslaved African Americans escape to freedom?
103. Public schools spread across the North in the mid-1800s, due to what?
104. What group had the most opportunity to get a public education?
105. What group had the least opportunity to get a public education?
106. How did the Second Great Awakening influence Americans?
107. What made Shakers different from most other Americans at the time?
108. What way of thinking stressed that the spiritual world was more important than the physical world? (Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about this.)
109. What advice did Walden author Henry David Thoreau have for Americans?
110. What did the women’s rights and the abolitionist movements have in common?
111. Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize the Seneca Falls Convention?
112. What made the Seneca Falls Convention such an important event?
113. Who led the movement to improve treatment of the mentally ill in the United States?
114. What effort was made to help workers during the 1830s and the 1840s?
115. What connected many women and the temperance movement?
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116. How did the outbreak of the War with Mexico revive disagreements over slavery between North and South?
117. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
118. What was a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
119. What was the Crittenden Plan?
120. What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?
121. Who was a leading abolitionist, former slave, and the publisher of a newspaper?
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122. Who held the most extreme views on slavery and abolition?
123. What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin about?
124. How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin impact Americans?
125. Who is the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
126. What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates about?
127. How did the Supreme Court add to the tensions over slavery in the 1850s?
128. What is the belief that the people living in a region should decide key issues called?
129. What was the Democratic Party’s platform in the election of 1860?
130. This new political party was formed by Free-Soilers, Northern Whigs, and Democrats who opposed the spread of slavery. What is it called?
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131. Who hoped to seize weapons for a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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132. In 1860 and 1861, seven southern states seceded form the Union in protest of what?
133. Who was the president of the Confederacy?
134. What were the Confederate States of America?
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CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 14
MANIFEST DESTINY CHAPTER 15
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1. John Adams
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Alexander Hamilton
4. George Washington
5. William Clark
6. Sacagawea
7. Meriwether Lewis
8. William Henry Harrison
9. John Marshall
10. Andrew Jackson
11. Martin Van Buren
12. John C. Calhoun
13. Henry Clay
14. James K. Polk
15. Zachary Taylor
16. Stephen Austin
17. Sam Houston
18. James K. Polk
19. Frederick Douglass
20. Sojourner Truth
21. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
22. Harriet Tubman
23. Horace Mann
- Henry Clay
- Jefferson Davis
- John Brown
- Stephen Douglas
- James Buchanan
- Abraham Lincoln
- Roger Taney
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