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Name of port on Mississippi River that controlled all shipping in the West?
New Orleans
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What treaty established a boundary line between Indian lands and the areas open to new settlements?
Treaty of Greenville
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What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provide?
public schools with religious instruction
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How much did the Louisiana Purchase cost the United States per acre? Final Cost?
- less than 4 cents per acre
- $15 Million
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First frontier state to be admitted to the Union?
Kentucky
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Name of the trail blazed through the Cumberland Gap by Daniel Boone so settlers could go from North Carolina to Kentucky?
Wilderness Road
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Personal secretary that President Jefferson asked to explore the new acquired land of Louisiana?
Meriwether Lewis
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What general defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
Anthony Wayne
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Who led 1,000 soldiers to defeat the Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe?
William Henry Harrison
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What did Francis Scott Key write that later became our national anthem?
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
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Term for the limiting or stop of trade with other nations?
embargo
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The most violent earthquake in American history?
New Madrid Quake
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Man who wrote a large part of the US Constitution and became President after Thomas Jefferson?
James Madison
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The Indian leader killed at the Battle of Thames River?
Tecumseh
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Name of senator from Massachusetts who was the greatest orator in Congress?
Daniel Webster
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Who said, "We have met the enemy and they are ours" when he defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie?
Oliver Hazard Perry
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Who did President Jefferson send to explore the lands from the Arkansas River to the Rockies?
Lieutenant Zebulon Pike
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How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 achieve a political balance between the North and the South?
- 1. admitted Maine as free state
- 2. admitted Missouri as a slave state
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Who wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest as a support of state's rights?
What was it in response to?
- 1. John C. Calhoun
- 2. In response to the Tariff of Abominations
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Which Indians called their long journey to Oklahoma the "Trail of Tears"?
Cherokee
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Name of the slave that stirred up a revolt in Virginia that lead to the killing of 60 people?
Nat Turner
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What political party arose in opposition to President Jackson?
Whig Party
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What radical abolitionist published a newspaper called The Liberator, calling for an immediate end to slavery?
William Lloyd Garrison
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What idea says that a state can cancel a federal law?
nullification docrine
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Who said, "The Union: next to or liberties, most dear"
John C. Calhoun
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Vice President who opposed the Tariff of 1828?
John C. Calhoun
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Famous senator who called for "Liberty and Union"?
Daniel Webster
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Succeeded Jackson as President?
Martin Van Buren
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Who traveled with Lewis and Clark?
Sacagawea
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Who was the director of the National Bank?
Nicholas Biddle
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Who was President Jackson's Vice President?
Martin Van Buren
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Who sold territory of Louisiana to United States?
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled a boundary between what two places?
Canada & United States
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What War was Washington, D.C. burned?
War of 1812
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Name of Compromise that preserved peace between the North and South?
Missouri Compromise
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What di the Louisiana Purchase do to the size of the United States?
doubled the size
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Who won the Presidency in 1828?
Andrew Jackson
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Who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel?
Aaron Burr
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State known as "dark and bloody ground"?
Kentucky
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Land won from the British as a result of the War for Independence?
Northwest Territory
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Name of valley littered with fossils?
Big Bone Lick
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State controlled by Russian traders?
Alaska
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What did the South call the "Tariff of Abominations"?
Tariff of 1828
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Where was the American victory worn after the War of 1812 was over?
New Orleans
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What political party was formed because of dislike for President Jackson?
Whig
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What policy warned European powers against interfering in the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine
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Name three ways the War of 1812 benefited the United States in the years after?
- 1. US & Britain respected each other's land in North America.
- 2. Growth of American industry.
- 3. Lessened fear England, which encouraged settlement in the West.
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Who invented the reaping machine?
Cyrus McCormick
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Entrepreneur who helped make possible the first transatlantic cable?
Cyrus Field
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Who made further improvements on Elias Howe's sewing machine?
Isaac Singer
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Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
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Who became know as America's greatest science teacher?
Louis Agassiz
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Invented steel plow?
John Deere
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Improved the power loom and built textile factories in New England?
Francis Cabot Lowell
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Who introduced ether as an effective pain killer for surgery?
William Morton
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What country did 1.5 million people immigrate from to the United States and why?
- 1. Ireland
- 2. escape potato famine causing widespread starvation
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First woman to become a physician in the United States?
Elizabeth Blackwell
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Term for a person who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product?
entrepreneur
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The fastest overland communication service before the telegraph?
Pony Express
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Famous author who used steamboat pilot experiences to write books such as Life on the Mississippi?
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
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Name for sleek, record-breaking sailing ships built in America?
clipper ships
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What did President Jackson issue to stop land speculation in the west by requiring all public lands to be paid for in silver and gold?
Specie Circular
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