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| Who were commissioned by President Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory? | Meriwether Lewis & William Clark |
| Who was the president when the Louisiana Territory was added to the United States and 3rd president of US? | Thomas Jefferson |
| What was the shifting zone where colonist controlled lands met Native American controlled lands? | Frontier |
| Who led pioneer families westward to a land called Kentucky? | Daniel Boone |
| What was the opening in the Appalachian Mountains that allowed more than 100,000 people to travel westward? | Cumberland Gap |
| What was the land purchase from the French that more than doubled the size of the US? | Louisiana Purchase |
| Name the French emperor who sold large tract of land to the US. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| What American negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory? | James Monroe |
| Who helped as an interpreter for Lewis and Clark in their expedition? | a Shoshone woman named Sacagawea |
| Who was the Shawnee Indian chief who tried to unite Eastern Indian tribes to fight the encroaching Americans? | Techumseh |
| What brother of Techumseh who was defeated at Tippecanoe River? | Prophet |
| Who defeated the Indians in the Battle of Tippecanoe and was first Whig president-elected in 1840? | Wm. Henry Harrison |
| What Cherokee invented a way to write the Cherokee language? | Sequoyah |
| What was the area the Cherokee Indians were forced to relocate by President Jackson? | Great American Desert |
| What is a tax on imported goods? | Tariff |
| What was the newly created trail that allowed settlers to move west? | Wilderness Road |
| What was proposed by Hamilton to provide a way for businesses to grow and expand? | Bank of the United States |
| Who argued that the Bank of the US was constitutional? | Alexander Hamilton |
| Who supported Hamilton's financial program that favored a strong national government? | Federalist |
| Who opposed Hamilton's financial program and supported independent farmers? | Republicans(Democratic-Republicans) |
| What was the war fought between the US and England where neither side gained from the other? | War of 1812 |
| Who wrote the Bill of Rights? | James Madison |
| What was the gold and silver that crediors paid with called? | hard money |
| What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution ratified by the states in 1781 called? | Bill of Rights |
| Who mapped most of the upper Mississippi and charted a mountain in Colorado? | Zebulon Pike |
| What were the small group of Federalists that drafted a plan to take New England out of the Union? | Essex Junto |
| What was Washington's letter to the American people when leaving office called? | Washington's Farewell Address |
| Thomas Jefferson argued that the Bank of the United States was this? | unconstitutional |
| What was established in Marbury vs Madison? | judicial review |
| What Secretary of State under Monroe defended Jackson's removal of Spanish governor from Florida? | John Quincy Adams |
| Who was the 2nd president of US? | John Adams |
| Why did the Lewis and Clark expedition occur? | secret mission to trace the Missouri River and find a route to the Pacific Ocean |
| How many amendments were originally agreed upon by Congress in 1789? | 12 |
| How many amendments were ratified by the states in 1791? | 10(Bill of Rights) |
| What did the Lewis & Clark expedition achieve? | increased American knowledge of the Louisiana Territory and gave US claim to Oregon territory |
| What is the Whiskey Rebellion? | Western Pennsylvania farmers that rebelled against a tax on whiskey |
| Who is Oliver Perry? | secretly arranged for the constitution of a fleet of ships on the coast of Lake Erie in Ohio that beat the British |
| What was the Tariff of 1789? | required importers to pay a percentage of the value of their cargo when they landed it in the US |
| What did the Federalists believe? | supported Hamilton's financial program, a strong national government-one of first political parties |
| What did the Democratic-Republicans(or Republicans) believe? | opposed Hamilton's financial program, believed in strength of independent farmers-led by Madison & Jefferson-one of first political parties |
| What was the Virginia Resolutions? | passed in Virginia and introduced interpostion-was written in oppositon to Alien & Sedition Acts |
| What was the Kentucky Resolutions? | passed in Kentucky and introduced nullification-was written in oppositon to Alien & Sedition Acts |
| How did we gain the Louisiana Territory? | Robert Livingston accepted deal from Napoleon Bonaparte needed money for war in Europe, so France sold the Louisiana Territory and New Orleans to the US for $11.25 million because he did not want the US to ally with Great Britain |
| What was outlined in Jay's Treaty? | Britain had the right to seize cargoes bound for French ports & British gave US most-favored nation status(American merchants treated fairly when trading with Britain), and America could trade with British controlled Caribbean colonies |
| How did Americans try to use diplomacy before entering the War of 1812? | passed Non-Intercourse Act(forbade trade with France & Britain), Macon's Bill #2(reopened trade with Britain & France and if either country dropped trade restrictions US would stop trading with other nation), non-importation act against Britain(refusal of US to buy British goods) |
| What was outlined in the Treaty of Ghent? | ended War of 1812-restored prewar boundaries and no territory was exchanged, increased US prestige overseas and increased national unity |
| Who opposed the Bank of United States? | opposed by Southerners because they claimed that Northern merchants would own most of the bank's stock and that it was unconstitutional |
| What is the Battle of New Orleans? | American victory in War of 1812 where American troops picked off British troops advancing in the open-US commanded by Andrew Jackson |
| What was the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812? | American naval force on the lake decisively defeated the British fleet-British retreated to Montreal |
| What was the Battle of Stony Creek in the War of 1812? | British troops and Canadian militia stopped the US attack from the east here |
| What was the Battle of Tippecanoe? | fighting between William Henry Harrison's forces and the Shawnee people(protecting their lands from settlers) led byTecumseh-it was a bloody battle and afterwards the Shawnee fled to Canada |
| What was Macon's Bill Number 2 | reopened trade with Britain & France and if either country dropped trade restrictions US would stop trading with other nation |
| What happened in June 1812? | refusal of US to buy British goods because of British trade restrictions had begun to hurt British economy & US declared war on Britain |
| Why did the South and West want war with Britain? | British trade restrictions hurt Southern planters and Western farmers because they earned their income from selling tobacco, rice, wheat, and cotton overseas & the British were blamed for fights with Native Americans |
| What were the three loses by the US in Canada during the War of 1812? | Detroit, Niagara Falls, and up the Hudson River Valley |
| What was the British strategy for war? | British navy would raid American cities along the coast, march south into New York form Montreal(cutting New England off), would sieze New Orleans closing the Mississippi River |
