2. Unit 2 The Americans, 2003 edition, Chapter 3 Jeopardy Review

4. 1. His parents were poor immigrants and he became the first president not to be elected from Virginia or New England.

5. Who was Andrew Jackson?

6. 2. Andrew Jackson’s solution was to have them forcefully removed from the lands east of the Mississippi.

8. Who are the Native Americans?

9. 3. Protective tariffs on manufactured goods especially hurt this part of the country because they had little manufacturing of their own.

11. What is the South?

12. 4. The Missouri Compromise attempted to resolve the controversy over this issue.

14. What is slavery, or the expansion of slavery in the West?

15. 5. It warned European nations to stay out of the Western hemisphere but did not require them to abandon the colonies they still possessed there.

17. What is the Monroe Doctrine?

18. 6. National pride and a new prestige in the eyes of the world were America’s only gains from this conflict.

20. What is the War of 1812?

21. 7. Invention that led to increased cultivation of cotton and more demand for slave labor.

23. What is Eli Whitney’s cotton gin?

24. 8. Who vastly improved the speed of communication by inventing in 1844 a device to send coded messages over a wire?

26. Samuel Morse

27. 10. His action to buy the Louisiana Territory had this effect on the power of the federal government.

29. What is it expanded it?

30. 11. This was the inspiration for writing the Star-Spangled Banner.

32. What is the British attack on Baltimore in 1814?

33. 12. 1820 agreement that maintained the equilibrium between slave and free states in Congress.

35. What is the Missouri Compromise?

36. 13. A high tariff (the Tariff of Abominations) caused this crisis in 1832-33.

38. What is the nullification crisis, when So. Carolina threatened to secede from the Union?

39. 14. Jackson opposed this institution because it benefited a few financiers and rich merchants instead of the common man and majority of Americans.

41. What is the Bank of the United States?

42. 15. These two events indirectly stimulated the growth of American manufacturing by temporarily cutting off British products.

44. What are the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812?

45. 17. Cyrus McCormick

47. Whose invention in the early 1830s of a mechanical reaper helped farmers harvest more wheat with fewer farmhands?

48. 20. Who was a “dark horse” candidate in 1844 that won the presidency because he was an outspoken expansionist?

50. James K. Polk

51. 21. What was a religious group founded by Joseph Smith that traveled West to escape the religious persecution they had suffered in New York and Illinois?

53. The Mormons

54. 24. What was a trade route that ran from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico?

56. Santa Fe Trail

57. 25.. What was a mission and fort that became the site of a bloody battle in the Texan war for independence and afterward became a war cry for the Texan freedom fighters?

58. 25. What was a mission and fort that became the site of a bloody battle in the Texan war for independence and afterward became a war cry for the Texan freedom fighters?

59. The Alamo

60. 26. What were the rivers considered the boundary of the U.S. by Mexico and the United States, respectively, which led to a border skirmish and the U.S. declaring war on Mexico?

62. The Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers

63. 27. What was the 1845 action taken by the U.S. Congress that became a major cause of the Mexican-American War?

65. Annexation of Texas

66. 30. What treaty ended the Mexican-American War and guaranteed the rights of Mexican nationals living within the redrawn boundaries of the United States?

68. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

69. 31. What trail did migrants to the Colombia River in present-day Washington or Oregon follow from Independence Missouri across the United States?

71. The Oregon Trail

72. 32. Young women were the preferred employees of this American industry that began in the first quarter of the 19 th century.

74. What is the textile industry, especially in Lowell, Mass.

75. 33. Most of the fighting of the Mexican-American War took place in this country.

77. What is Mexico?

78. 34. What phrase, coined by a Congressman and popularized by magazine editor John L. O’Sullivan, expressed many Americans’ belief that the expansion of the U.S. across the North American continent was inevitable?

80. 34. What phrase, coined by a Congressman and popularized by magazine editor John L. O’Sullivan, expressed many Americans’ belief that the expansion of the U.S. across the North American continent was inevitable? Manifest Destiny

81. 36. Who was the resourceful New Yorker that installed a steam engine on a paddle boat and revolutionized river travel in 1807?

83. Robert Fulton

84. 39. Who led the first group of American settlers into Texas and gave his name to the capital of Texas?

86. Stephen Austin

87. 41. Who was elected the first president of the new Republic of Texas?

89. Sam Houston

90. 48. The abundant and cheap labor of new immigrants in the 1830s and 1840s had this effect on the early labor movement.

92. What is it stifled the movement because bosses could easily replace striking workers?