Period 4 ( 1800 - 1848)

Question 2

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 2

Territory owned by France that the US bought for 15 million.

Question 3

What was the outcome of Marbury v Madison?

Answer 3

William Marbury wanted to get his commission as an appointed judge but due to judicial review he didn’t.

Question 4

What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

Answer 4

A convention focused on women’s rights.

Question 5

What was the cause of the War of 1812?

Answer 5

The US went to war with Britain because of them doing impressment on US ships.

Question 6

What was discussed at the Hartford Convention?

Answer 6

How to end the war with Britain.

Question 7

What characterized the Era of Good Feelings?

Answer 7

National unity under the Democratic-Republican Party.

Question 8

What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?

Answer 8

A treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.

Question 9

What was the Annexation of Texas?

Answer 9

The incorporation of Texas into the United States.

Question 10

What did the Embargo Act of 1807 do?

Answer 10

Cut off trading with France and Britain, which was a cause of the War of 1812.

Question 11

What was the effect of the War of 1812?

Answer 11

Embargo Act of 1816 was part of the Treaty of Ghent.

Question 12

What was the significance of McCulloch v Maryland?

Answer 12

Upheld the constitutionality of the National Bank and granted Congress implied powers.

Question 13

What was the ruling in Gibbons v Ogden?

Answer 13

The federal government would control interstate trade.

Question 14

What does NINA stand for?

Answer 14

No Irish Need Apply.

Question 15

What characterized the Market Revolution?

Answer 15

Innovation and industrialization.

Question 16

What is Manifest Destiny?

Answer 16

The belief that the expansion of the US across the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

Question 17

What is sectionalism?

Answer 17

Loyalty to a region or section of the country rather than the country as a whole.

Question 18

What was the Second Great Awakening?

Answer 18

An increase in church attendance that inspired social and moral reforms.

Question 19

What was the Compromise of 1820?

Answer 19

Missouri Compromise (36/30 line) - North; free, South; slave.

Question 20

What did the Monroe Doctrine demand?

Answer 20

Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.

Question 21

What was the American System proposed by Henry Clay?

Answer 21

An economic plan that aimed to strengthen and unify the nation.

Question 22

Who were the Lowell Girls?

Answer 22

Young women who worked in Lowell Manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution.

Question 23

What was the Women’s Suffrage Movement?

Answer 23

A movement aimed at securing women’s right to vote.

Question 24

Who could vote under Andrew Jackson’s presidency?

Answer 24

All white men could vote.

Question 25

What was the Declaration of Sentiments?

Answer 25

A document that outlined the rights of women and was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.

Question 26

What was the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 26

Legislation that led to the forced relocation of Native Americans, known as the Trail of Tears.

Question 27

What was the Bank War?

Answer 27

Jackson did not want to renew the charter for the Second National Bank, feeling it gave too much power to the federal government.

Question 28

What were strict constructionists and loose constructionists?

Answer 28

Strict constructionists (Democratic-Republicans) vs. loose constructionists (Federalists – Whigs).

Question 29

What did the Federalists propose at the Hartford Convention?

Answer 29

An amendment to the Constitution that Americans should vote to determine if the country goes to war.

Question 30

What was the Abolitionist Movement?

Answer 30

A movement aimed at ending slavery.

Question 31

What was the Temperance Movement?

Answer 31

A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Question 32

Who coined the term Manifest Destiny?

Answer 32

John O'Sullivan in 1837.

Question 33

What does the painting 'American Progress' symbolize?

Answer 33

Westward expansion.

Question 34

What was the Cotton Gin?

Answer 34

A machine that quickly and efficiently removed seeds from cotton fibers.

Question 35

What manufactured goods started being made during this period?

Answer 35

Telegraphs, canals, roads, the Oregon Trail, railroads, and steamboats.