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Historian Hustle – The Growth of a Young Nation

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 11mins

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1.

The ______________________________ was an address to Congress on December 1823 that outlined a comprehensive foreign policy to protect U.S. independence by limiting European influences on North and South America.

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Adams-Onis Treaty

c)

War of 1812

d)

Convention of 1818

2.

The ­­­­­­­­­­________________________________________ was a treaty between the United States and Britain that set the 49th parallel of latitude as the boundary between Canada (British) and the United States across the West.

a)

Treaty of Ghent

b)

Adams-Onis Treaty

c)

Embargo Act

d)

Convention of 1818

3.

______________________________________ was the Governor of the Indiana Territory who gained national fame following his defeat of Tenskwatawa and a Native American confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe. Later became the 9th president of the United States.

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

William Henry Harrison

c)

Marbury v. Madison

d)

Monroe Doctrine

4.

The ________________________ was between Britain and the United States, fought between 1812 and 1815. It began over alleged British violations of American shipping rights, such as the impressment of seamen. There was no clear winner in the war.

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Embargo Act

c)

War of 1812

d)

Barbary Pirates

5.

The ___________________________ passed by Thomas Jefferson in 1807 forbid American ships from trading with Europe because of this act the American economy began to collapse.

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Embargo Act

c)

Treaty of Ghent

d)

Monroe Doctrine

6.

__________________________________ was a U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States.

a)

Embargo Act

b)

Convention of 1818

c)

Monroe Doctrine

d)

Marbury v. Madison

7.

The __________________________ were in the Mediterranean Sea that would demand payment from merchant ships passing along the North African Coast. Ships that did not pay would be attacked, their cargo seized, and their crew enslaved.

a)

Embargo Act

b)

Barbary Pirates

c)

War of 1812

d)

Adams-Onis Treaty

8.

The ____________________________________ was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Treaty of Ghent

d)

Monroe Doctrine

9.

____________________________ gained national fame following his defeat of the British at the Battle of New Orleans. Later became the 7th president of the United States.

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

William Henry Harrison

c)

Marbury v. Madison

d)

Monroe Doctrine

10.

The _______________________ was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 signed on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, United Netherlands.

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Treaty of Ghent

d)

Embargo Act

11.

The ______________________________________ was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.

a)

Adams-Onis Treaty

b)

Treaty of Ghent

c)

Embargo Act

d)

Marbury v. Madison