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Famous Presidents Points Question Who was the first president of the United States in the 1790s?

Famous Presidents Points Answer George Washington

Famous Presidents Points Question Who was the president of the United States during the War of 1812?

Famous Presidents Points Answer Thomas Jefferson

Famous Presidents Points Question Who was the president of the United States who purchased Louisiana?

Famous Presidents Points Answer Thomas Jefferson

Famous Presidents Points Question Who was the president of the United States remembered for the Monroe Doctrine?

Famous Presidents Points Answer James Monroe

Famous Presidents Points Question Who was the first president of the United States elected by the common people?

Famous Presidents Points Answer Andrew Jackson

Famous Events Points Question What was the conflict between Great Britain and the United States over American neutral rights?

Famous Events Points Answer War of 1812

Famous Events Points Question What was the last battle of the War of 1812 won by the United States?

Famous Events Points Answer Battle of New Orleans

Famous Events Points Question What was the attempt by South Carolina in 1832 to declare the federal tariff law null and void?

Famous Events Points Question Nullification Crisis

Famous Events Points Question What agreement in 1820 admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state?

Famous Events Points Answer Missouri Compromise

Famous Events Points Question What was the forced migration of the Cherokee Indians westward to Indian territory in the winter of ?

Famous Events Points Answer Trail of Tears

Acquisition of Land Points Question What land did the United States buy form France in 1803?

Acquisition of Land Points Answer Louisiana Purchase

Acquisition of Land Points Question What independent country became part of the United States in 1845?

Acquisition of Land Points Answer Annexation of Texas

Acquisition of Land Points Question What land did the United States acquire from Spain in 1819?

Acquisition of Land Points Answer Florida

Acquisition of Land Points Question What conflict fought by the United States in 1846 led to the acquisition of California and the American Southwest?

Acquisition of Land Points Answer Mexican War

Acquisition of Land Points Question What land did the United States gain in 1846 in a treaty with Great Britain?

Acquisition of Land Points Answer Oregon Territory

Moving West Points Question What was the growth of the United States in the early 19th century from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean?

Moving West Points Answer Westward Expansion

Moving West Points Question What is the process of adding new territory by a country?

Moving West Points Answer Annexation

Moving West Points Question What was the belief in the 19th century that the United States had God’s approval to expand to the Pacific Ocean?

Moving West Points Answer Manifest Destiny

Moving West Points Question What is to give up land by a treaty?

Moving West Points Answer Cession

Moving West Points Question What is how people living on the land and are distributed across space?

Moving West Points Answer Settlement patterns

Dates and Documents Points Question What document warned Americans against political parties and “entangling alliances: with foreign nations?

Dates and Documents Points Answer Washington’s Farewell Address

Dates and Documents Points Question What was the Supreme Court Case that established the power of judicial review?

Dates and Documents Points Answer Marbury v. Madison

Dates and Documents Points Question In what year did the United States buy the Louisiana territory from France?

Dates and Documents Points Answer 1803

Dates and Documents Points Question What was the document in which the United States opposed any new European colonies in the Americas?

Dates and Documents Points Answer Monroe Doctrine

Dates and Documents Points Question What law passed in 1830 required all Native American tribes to move west of the Mississippi River?

Dates and Documents Points Answer Indian Removal Act

Key Concepts Points Question What is a group of people who are organized together to win elections and govern a country?

Key Concepts Points Answer Political Party

Key Concepts Points Question What is the power of the courts to declare a law of the legislative branch or an action of executive branch unconstitutional?

Key Concepts Points Answer Judicial Review

Key Concepts Points Question What is the support and loyalty to a certain region of a country?

Key Concepts Points Answer Sectionalism

Key Concepts Points Question What is the economic system where people are free to produce what they can and to buy what they can afford?

Key Concepts Points Answer Free enterprise system

Key Concepts Points Question What is a lending institution charted by a country?

Key Concepts Points Answer National Bank