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- What state was so angry over the Tariff Act of 1828 that it nullified it because they would end up paying more than other states or regions of the country?
- What doctrine stated that the Europeans shouldn't retake their colonies in the Western Hemisphere and that the United States would stay out of European wars as well?
- What new political party was formed during this time and who took their name from an English political party who were against the absolute power of the government?
- At the Battle of Baltimore, who wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner?
- President Van Buren sent the U.S. Army to remove all remaining Native Americans from the southeast and forced them to walk a path from Georgia to Oklahoma. What was this journey known as?
- During the year 1812, the U.S. Congress was being steered by an aggressive faction of young legislators in the House of Representatives known as the ___. They believed that war with Britain would not only restore American prestige, it would also provide a great benefit in territory. They wanted the United States to invade and seize Canada.
- The Anglo-American Convention of 1818 between the U.S. and Britain placed the border of British North America (Canada) along the 49th parallel, from the Great Lakes to the Rockies, and opened all of the Oregon Territory to citizens of either country. T/F
- What city did Lewis and Clark set off from when they began exploring the Louisiana Purchase?
- On April 30, 1803, U.S. representatives in Paris agreed to pay _____ for over 800,000 square miles of land that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to ____. This deal, known as the Louisiana Purchase, nearly doubled the size of the United States.
- In October 1813, American forces under the command of _______ won the Battle of the Thames River in Moraviantown, an Indian village in Canada.
- British General Robert Ross invaded and captured what American city burning down federal buildings?
- In 1830 the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Creek, and Seminole were forced to sign treaties that required them to vacate their land and gave the U.S. government the right to remove them by force under the ___
- The expansion of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific was driven by the belief that it was the God-given "destiny" to spread across the continent. What is this belief called?
- The second great awakening was a religious revivalist movement. It started as a reaction to to the growth and popularity of __ and __
- The Second Great Awakening embraced a more optimistic view of the human condition, by choosing to be saved and suggesting that salvation was open to all human beings. What did they believe an individual needed to assert?
- What was the name of the major battle that the Americans won after the war was already over?
- The 1814 ___which ended the war, merely affirmed the situation prevailing before the war began (the status quo antebellum). The treaty was silent on the issues of commercial rights that had led to war. When war between Britain and France ended in 1815, so did British interference with American shipping.
- In early June 1812 President ____ sent a message to Congress in which he listed complaints about British behavior toward America. This propelled American towards the war of 1812.
- The anti -slavery and pro-slavery groups rushed to where?
- Anti-slavery legistlature created in _______.