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Question 1

What war has been called the Americas second one for independence?

Answer 1

The war of 1812

Question 2

Who defeated the British fleet on Lake Erie?

Answer 2

Commodore Oliver hazard Perry

Question 3

Who wrote the words to the Star-Spangled Banner?

Answer 3

Key

Question 4

What battle was General Andrew Jackson commander at?

Answer 4

The battle of New Orleans

Question 5

What election a shared in a period known as the era of good feelings?

Answer 5

Election of 1816

Question 6

What were the two important American revivals?

Answer 6

The great awakening and the second great awakening

Question 7

What were the three major issues at divided the United States?

Answer 7

U.S. Bank, protective tariffs, and slavery

Question 8

John Marshall believe that the United States Constitution granted what powers to the federal government’s?

Answer 8

Implied powers

Question 9

Osceola was the brilliant chief of which Indians?

Answer 9

Seminole

Question 10

What was concerned with the issue of slavery?

Answer 10

The Missouri compromise

Question 11

Andrew Jackson was the first United States president to be born in a?

Answer 11

Log cabin

Question 12

The kitchen cabinet was the name given to who’s of an official advisory group?

Answer 12

Jackson’s

Question 13

What theory was originated by John C Calhoun?

Answer 13

The theory of nullification

Question 14

Who said liberty and union now and forever one and inseparable?

Answer 14

Daniel Webster

Question 15

What is the Calhoun and Jackson disagree on?

Answer 15

Nullification
states rights
protective tariffs

Question 16

What was the first third party movement in the United States history?

Answer 16

The anti-Masonic party

Question 17

What did Congress pass in 1830 which called for the exchange of Indian lands in the east or new reservation lands in the West?

Answer 17

The Indian removal act

Question 18

What tribes did the Chicksaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, creek, and Seminole make up?

Answer 18

The five civilized Tribes

Question 19

What written language was invented by Sequoia?

Answer 19

Cherokee

Question 20

What did the Indians name their 1000 mile westward journey?

Answer 20

The trail of tears

Question 21

Martin Van Buren was the first president to be born a what of the United States?

Answer 21

Citizen

Question 22

James k. Polk campaigned on what slogan?

Answer 22

“Manifest destiny”

Question 23

Before the Mexican war what two countries claimed the area between Rio Grande and nueces river

Answer 23

United States and Mexico

Question 24

What treaty ended the Mexican war?

Answer 24

The treaty of Hildago Guadalupe

Question 25

The dispute over the boundary what two states was settled with the Webster Ashburton Treaty?

Answer 25

Maine and New Brunswick

Question 26

The United States and Britain agreed upon the 49th parallel as the northern border and of what country?

Answer 26

Oregon country

Question 27

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

Answer 27

Uncle Tom’s cabin

Question 28

Who founded the New York Tribune?

Answer 28

Horace Greeley

Question 29

What was Henry Clay called?

Answer 29

The great compromiser

Question 30

What did dread Scott decision rule?

Answer 30

That a slave cannot gain freedom being taken to a free state or territory

Question 31

What senators supported the doctrine of popular sovereignty

Answer 31

Senator Stephen a Douglas

Question 32

Who rated the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and wanted to lead a slave revolt?

Answer 32

John Brown