7-The Young Nation Grows

Vocabulary

• inauguration

• Electoral College

• Cabinet

• political party

• tariff

1. What is an inauguration?

2. What is the electoral college?

3. How many U.S. senators are there?

4. What is the president’s cabinet?

5. What are the two major political parties in the United States?

6. Why was it important to have a national currency and U.S. Mint?

7. Where is the capital of the United States?

8. What was the purpose of tariffs?

9. Which African helped to build the nation’s capital building? 

10. How were the Democratic Republicans and Federalists different?

Vocabulary

• pioneer

• frontier

• interpreter

1. What is a pioneer?

2. How did Daniel Boone help shape the United States?

3. What made life on the frontier hard?

4. What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?

5. What lands did the U.S. gain with the Louisiana Purchase?

6. What effect did the Louisiana Purchase have on the United States?

7. Why did the U.S. want to purchase Louisiana Territory?

8. Why did the French allow the U.S. to purchase it?

9. Why did Thomas Jefferson send Lewis and Clark to the West?

10. What did Lewis and Clark accomplish in the West?

11. What skills were needed in order to settle lands in the West? 

Vocabulary

• impressment

• anthem

• casualty

• nationalism

1. Why did the British impress American soldiers?

2. What caused the War of 1812?

3. Who was Tecumseh?

4. Who was president during the War of 1812?

5. What happened to the White House in 1814?

6. What event sparked Francis Scott Key to create the national anthem?

7. What signaled the end of the War of 1812?

8. What effect did the win after the War of 1812 have on Americans?

9. What is nationalism?

10. How many casualties did the Americans and British have during the War?

Vocabulary

• foreign policy

• Monroe Doctrine

• suffrage

• Trail of Tears

1. When did the Era of Good Feelings occur?

2. What is the Monroe Doctrine?

3. What made Spain sell Florida to the United States?

4. What made President Monroe the “people’s president?”

5. How did suffrage change in the 1820s?

6. Which Native American groups were affected by the Indian Removal Act?

7. Why was the Indian Removal Act passed in 1830?

8. How did Native Americans react to this Act?

9. What is the Trail of Tears?

10. How was the journey of the Trail of Tears for Native Americans?

Vocabulary

• famine

• abolition

• reform

1. What caused a large amount of Irish to immigrate to the U.S.?

2. Why did many Germans to immigrate to the U.S.?

3. What caused the number of slaves to increase in 1792?

4. What is an abolitionist?

5. What was their strategy?

6. Who is Sojourner Truth?

7. Who is Frederick Douglass?

8. What was the situation with women during the 1800s?

9. What did Susan B. Anthony fight for?

10.  What took place at Seneca Falls? 

Part I. Presidents – know the order of their presidency.

1. ·         George Washington (1789–1797) 

2. ·         John Adams (1797–1801)        

3. ·         Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)

4. ·         James Madison (1809–1817)    

5. ·         James Monroe (1817–1825)     

6. ·         John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)  

7. ·         Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)  

 Part II. Presidents – know key events that occurred during their term.

1.  Louisiana Purchase

 2. Lewis & Clark Expedition

 3. War of 1812

 4. Indian Removal Act

 5. Trial of Tears

 6. Abolition

 7. The cotton gin

 8. Seneca Falls

 9. Daniel Boone

Part III - Causes and Effects of these events

1. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin

2. Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears

3. Lewis and Clark expedition and Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail.

4. Louisiana Purchase

5. Political parties were formed.

6. slavery deemed unconstitutional and inhumane by abolitionists

7. Treaty of Ghent

8. War of 1812