The making of America 1789-1838

Question 1

What years did the war for the independence of America take place in?

Answer 1

1776-1783

Question 2

Who was the frist President of America?

Answer 2

George Washington

Question 3

What year did Washington set up a campaign against the Native Americans?

Answer 3

1791

Question 4

What year was the battle of Fallen Timbers?

Answer 4

1794

Question 5

What was the treaty of Greenville?

Answer 5

Allowed the US to take parts of the northwestern territory

Question 6

What states were fromed due to the Treaty of Greenville? What years?

Answer 6

Ohio, Illinois, Michigan - 1803-1819

Question 7

When the USA spread in the 1790s, where did this push the Native Americans who occupied the area at the time?

Answer 7

West

Question 8

Why did slaveholders want to expand their plantations further south?

Answer 8

The climate was warmer for growing cotton

Question 9

What was an abolitionist?

Answer 9

A person who wants to stop slavery

Question 10

What was a Quaker?

Answer 10

People who seek to experience God directly

Question 11

What was the purpose and when was the cotton gin made?

Answer 11

1793- cotton could be processed much faster

Question 12

What year was the louisiana purchase?

Answer 12

1803

Question 13

What was the Louisiana purchase?

Answer 13

The 3rd president Thomas Jefferson wanted to buy the port of new Orleans from the French

Question 14

How much was it to buy Louisiana for Jefferson?

Answer 14

$15 million

Question 15

Which two people were given the task of exploring the lands (Louisiana)? What year?

Answer 15

Merriweather Lewis and William Clark - 1804

Question 16

Why were Lewis and Clark exploring the west?

Answer 16

Trade

Question 17

What are the names of the ‘Five civilaised tribes’?

Answer 17

Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole

Question 18

By 1819 wha two states had been added to Louisiana?

Answer 18

Mississippi and Alabama

Question 19

Between 1815-1819 how many slaves had been sold?

Answer 19

100000

Question 20

What resulted in the 1820 Missouri Compromise?

Answer 20

An 1819 battle which began over wether states created from the Louisiana purchase would allow slavery

Question 21

What did the 1820 missouri compromise lead to?

Answer 21

A virtual line created across the middle of the country - so any states that were created in the west which fell below the line would be free states.

Question 22

What did the 1820 Missouri Compromise ensure for the government?

Answer 22

Power

Question 23

1838

Answer 23

The USA were producing over 1,000,000 bales of cotton every year and the slave trade was needed in order to maintain this. There was also growing opposition from the abolitionists.

Question 24

What year was the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 24

1830

Question 25

What did the Indian Removal act intell?

Answer 25

promised money to tribes if they relocated. Jackson also set aside a permanent Native AMerican territory west of the mississippi river.

Question 26

Who persuaded congress to pass the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 26

Andrew Jackson

Question 27

What did president Andrew Jackson believe about the Native Americans?

Answer 27

That they should be treated like children

Question 28

Which two tribes moved after the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 28

The Choctaw and the Chickasaw - they moved west

Question 29

Which tribe took thier case to the Supreme Court after hearing about the Indian Removal Act? What year did this happen?

Answer 29

The Cherokee - they won and could stay - 1832

Question 30

Which tribe refused to move after the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 30

Creek refused to sign the treaty

Question 31

What caused Seminole wars?

Answer 31

in 1830, some of the Seminole tribe signed the treaty and agreed to move but not all agreed

Question 32

When did the Seminole wars occur?

Answer 32

1835-1842

Question 33

What is Congress?

Answer 33

A governing body made up of people selected from each state. They passed new laws

Question 34

What did George Washington do when he feared attack from the Indians?

Answer 34

From 1791, he out 90% of his funding towards campaigning against the Indians. In 1794, he defeated the Indians in the “Battle of Fallen Timbers”. Washington took their lands after defeating them