The POTUS responsible for nearly doubling the size of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase was....

The Second “Great Awakening” inspired thousands of Americans to dedicate themselves to living out the Christian faith, and fighting sin and injustice in American society. This impulse produced a series of major reform movements, such as __________ (Choose ALL that apply!)

Which of the following BEST represents the new "Factory Towns" of the early industrial era?

An example of the economic nationalism that grew out of the War of 1812, Henry Clay and allies in Congress promoted “a system of federally-supported ‘internal improvements’ back by a protective tariff” as a way of strengthening the US on the world stage. This strategy is known as the...

Whose Man Is This? Keywords: 8th POTUS, "Little Magician," Founded Democratic Party, Election of 1836, one-term wonder, "party rule."

Which of the following phenomena is NOT associated with the Second Great Awakening?

Whose Man Is This? Plantation owner, slaveholder, Creek Wars, War of 1812, Battle of New Orleans, Bank War, Indian Removal, "Populism"....

Which of the following is NOT associated with Thomas Jefferson’s two terms as President?

Whose Man Is This? In his inauguration speech, he promised Americans a more "wise and frugal government." This meant a smaller, cost-conscious national government with more support for state governments.

Source Question - who delivered a famous "War Message" to Congress in 18111, in which he advocated declaring war in response to British harassment of American ships and sailors at sea?

Source Question - What Tennessee Congressman urged Congress to declare War in 1811, on the grounds that the British were stirring up Native Americans against U.S. settlers on the frontier? Hint: he lost three of his own relatives to Indian raids.

Created by Henry Clay, the ______ Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a “slave state,” with future slave states to remain south of the line 36°30’ N. It also added THIS “free state" to maintain a balance of power in Congress....

In the political "spoils system" introduced by Andrew Jackson during his Presidency, the most important qualification for a job as a cabinet member, postmaster, customs officer, tax official, or other federal government office was.....

Though later extended into Illinois, the gravel-topped National Road at first connected….

Which is the correct answer, in chronological order from 3rd through 8th POTUS? Jefferson, ___________, Monroe, ___________, Jackson, Van Buren....

The most controversial and divisive issue in American politics during the antebellum era was the…

Which of the following correctly lists the First (1st) through Fourth (4th) chronological "waves" of the Transportation / Communication Revolution in antebellum America?

The 1994 movie Amistad depicts a slave revolt on a Virginia plantation in 1831.

The 1994 movie Amistad depicts a slave uprising on a ship illegally transporting slaves to the Americas in 1839.

As President, Thomas Jefferson achieved all of his original goals, and later expressed great satisfaction with his time as POTUS.

During the antebellum decades, industrial output grew at about the same rate in the Northern and Southern regions of the U.S..

As POTUS, Andrew Jackson supported the right of a state to “nullify” (i.e., to declare invalid in that state) an unpopular law passed by the U.S. federal government.

By the 1830s, some defenders of slavery had changed their message from describing slavery as a “necessary evil”, by concocting arguments that now defended this practice as a “positive good.”

Who is most likely to be the a) speaker and b) audience of the following passage?

“The Being within, communing with past ages, tells me that…until lately there was no white man on this continent; that it then all belonged to red men, children of the same parents …the white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because they had it first. It is theirs. They may sell, but all must join. Any sale not made by all is not valid. The late sale is bad….it requires all to make a bargain for all.”

The point of view expressed in this passage is most similar to which viewpoint?

"My mind is irresistibly drawn to the West...It cannot be believed, by any man who will reflect, that the savage tribes, uninfluenced by other powers, would think of making war on the United States. They understood too well their own weakness and our strength. They have already felt the weight of our arms…how, then, sir, are we to account for their late conduct? In one way only: some powerful nation must have intrigued with them, and turned their peaceful dispositions toward us into hostilities.”

What event most likely inspired Thomas Jefferson to write the following passage?

“But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the death knell of the Union... But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper…But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."

-Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820

Who was the first POTUS to be born an American citizen?