American History Review

•When did the war with Britain begin?

•1812

•What major battle did the Americans under Andrew Jackson win?

•Battle of New Orleans

•Name the Supreme Court case that confirmed the use of implied powers?

•McCulloch v. Maryland

•What was the name of the covered wagons that many people used for travel?

•Conestoga

•Name the political statement that told European powers to stay out of this hemisphere?

•Monroe Doctrine

•How did the cotton gin affect slavery?

•Cotton picking now 10x more efficient – slavery increases/stays in place

•What three issues began to divide the nation into sectional interests?

•Slavery, Tariffs, Free Land vs. Market Value

•Name the system of internal improvements designed to unite the nation?

•American System

•Who were the promoters of the internal improvements?

•Clay & Calhoun

•Name the compromise that determined the future of slavery in the new states after 1820?

•Missouri Compromise

•Who won the election of 1824?

•John Quincy Adams

•What group eventually began to encourage war against Britain?

•War Hawks

•How was John Quincy Adams chosen to be President?

•Corrupt Bargain

•Who won the election of 1828?

•Andrew Jackson

•Who was commonly called the “Common Man’s President”?

•Andrew Jackson

•What is the practice of giving jobs as rewards for service called?

•Spoils System

•What large Indian group resisted the efforts of the gov’t to move them?

•Cherokee (will also accept: 5 Civilized Tribes or any tribe included)

•What was the forced migration of this group called?

•Trail of Tears

•What state nearly left the Union over the high tariff of 1828?

•South Carolina

•What did Eli Whitney do for the United States?

•Interchangeable Parts & Cotton Gin

•Why did Jackson kill the National Bank?

•Felt it benefitted wealthy & was unconsitutional

•The British managed to partially destroy which U.S. city?

•Washington, DC

• What political party arose to oppose Jackson and his followers?

•Whigs

•Which President died soon after taking office?

•William Henry Harrison

•Which Vice-President became the first to become President?

•John Tyler

•Which reformer promoted free public education?

•Horace Mann

•Which reformer advocated mental hospital reformers?

•Dorthea Dix

•Name the Convention where women stated their belief in equal rights?

•Seneca Falls Convention

•What speech was made at this convention – wording based upon the Declaration of Independence.

•Declaration of Sentiments

•System of abolitionists who helped slaves escape to freedom?

•Underground Railroad

•Group of artists who painted landscapes of the American frontier?

•Hudson River School

•Wrote “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience”?

•Henry David Thoreau

•Movement to ban alcohol?

•Temperance Movement

•Which Supreme Court case stated that the government has implied powers?

•McCulloch v. Maryland

•What was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine?

•US to keep Europe out of our hemisphere – US to stay out of Europe

•Which former Indian fighter was elected President in 1840?

•William Henry Harrison

•What part of the national government did Andrew Jackson feel was bad for the nation?

•National Bank

•How were the state banks that Jackson placed the money into referred to?

•Pet Banks

•How was the tariff that almost cause SC to secede referred to?

•Tariff of Abominations?

•What issue led to the Nullification Crisis?

•Tariffs

•Under which president did the Nullification Crisis take place and what was their response?

•Jackson – was going to send military to SC to keep them from seceding

•What was the main issue under debate in the Missouri Compromise?

•Slavery

•Where did the largest American victory happen in the war of 1812?

•New Orleans

•Which two men were the leaders behind the American system?

•Clay & Calhoun

•Term for the long deadly journey Native Americans took while being relocated west?

•Trail of Tears

•Law signed by President Jackson that removed the Native Americans from their land?

•Indian Removal Act of 1830

•Who are the 5 “civilized tribes”?

•Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole

•“The Great Silence” refers to what issue?

•Slavery

•A feeling of intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country is called?

•Nationalism

•What is the goal of the temperance movement?

•Moderation of alcohol

•What issue was brought to the surface by the Tariffs of 1828?

•Supremacy of Federal Gov’t – States cannot nullify/secede

•What did Eli Whitney create that helped increase industry in the north?

•Interchangeable Parts

•In what Supreme Court case did the power of judicial review originate?

•Marbury v. Madison

•What connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie?

•Erie Canal

•What was the goal of abolitionists?

•Abolition of Slavery

•What is suffrage?

•The Right to Vote

•What does the term “Separate Spheres” refer to?

•Separation of men & women’s roles in society

•Who led a slave revolt in which white southerners were killed in the middle of the night?

•Nat Turner

•What is the term for the system of “true womanhood” in which a woman’s place is in the home?

•Cult of Domesticity

•What did Dorthea Dix advocate for?

•Reform to mental health, hospitals, and prisons

•Who was the well-spoken former slave who managed to become a friend of Abraham Lincoln?

•Frederick Douglass

•What was the first college to accept females?

•Oberlin College

•Who created the mechanical reaper?

•Cyrus McCormick

•To be anti-immigrant

•Nativism

•What secret political party was anti-immigrant?

•Know-Nothing Party

•What new groups of immigrants were being oppressed in the mid-1800s?

•Irish & Italians

•What is the theory that the US should span coast-to-coast?

•Manifest Destiny

•Who founded the Mormons?

•Joseph Smith

•Who led the Mormons to Utah?

•Brigham Young

•Who led settlers into Texas?

•Stephen Austin

•In what battle for independence were Texans defeated – and later used as a rallying cry?

•Alamo

•Who was the first president of Texas?

•Sam Houston

•What was the name of the independent nation of Texas?

•The Lone Star Republic

•What settlers moving west were trapped in the Rocky Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism?

•Donner Party

•What is the name of the trail taken west by settlers?

•Oregon Trail

•What did James K. Polk use as his election slogan and what did it mean?

•54-40 or Fight

•While Polk did not take what he had promised in his campaign, what did he annex into America?

•Texas and parts of Mexico

•In what year did the California Gold Rush take place?

•1849

•What is a panic?

•Recession or Depression

•What treaty ended the War of 1812?

•Treaty of Ghent

•What political party emerged stronger than ever from the War of 1812?

•Democratic-Republicans

•What treaty caused the US to acquire Florida?

•Adams-Onis Treaty

•What was the Hartford Convention and what did the New England states involved threaten?

•New England’s desire to end war with England – secession if they were unable to end war.