War of 1812 | ||
#1 | The British burned Washington D.C.’s government buildings in 1814 in retaliation for what? |
Burning the Parliament Building at York Canada |
#2 | Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry? | Francis Scott Key |
#3 | Which group of young Republicans in Congress pushed for war against England in 1812? | War Hawks |
#4 | Which city’s harbor did Fort McHenry protect? | Baltimore |
#5 | Which peace treaty ended the War of 1812? | Treaty of Ghent |
Presidents | ||
#1 | Whose election in 1860, without winning a single Southern state, caused the Southern states to question their power in the government? | Abraham Lincoln |
#2 | Which president was accused of stealing the presidency through a “corrupt bargain” with Henry Clay? | John Quincy Adams |
#3 | Who was the hero of New Orleans for defending the city at the end of the War of 1812? | Andrew Jackson |
#4 | Which expansionist president asked Congress to declare war against Mexico in 1846? | James K. Polk |
#5 | Which president signed the Compromise of 1850 into law? | Millard Fillmore |
Foreign Connection | ||
#1 | At the start of the War of 1812, England was fighting the Napoleonic Wars against which other country? | France |
#2 | Where did James Madison decide to attack at the start of the War of 1812? | Canada |
#3 | Which two groups of immigrants increased drastically from the 1830s-1860s? | Irish & Germans |
#4 | What was the name of the country that the seceding Southern stated formed? | Confederate States of America |
#5 | Which group established Liberia in Africa as a place to ship freedmen in the early 1800s? | American Colonization Society |
Industrial Revolution | ||
#1 | What was the name given to the movement that transformed work from a manual labor model to a labor model that used machines powered by water and then later steam? | Industrial Revolution |
#2 | In which region of the U.S. were most of the factories and mills built in the 1800s? | Northeast |
#3 | Who built America’s first water powered textile mill on the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1793? | Samuel Slater |
#4 | Which invention by Eli Whitney actually increased the demand for southern cotton and also increased slavery by using a machine to pick the seeds out of cotton? | Cotton Gin |
#5 | Who transformed the manufacturing of cloth in the 1800s by moving all of the steps in the production process under one roof? | Francis Cabot Lowell |
Transportation & Communication | ||
#1 | Which trail led to the Oregon Territory? | Oregon Trail |
#2 | Which trail led to the New Mexico Territory? | Santa Fe Trail |
#3 | What were manmade waterways built in the 1800s, linking farms to cities? | Canals |
#4 | In the 1800s, private companies charged travelers to use roads that they built and maintained called what? | Turnpikes |
#5 | Who invented the electric telegraph in 1837, using electric pulses that traveled long distances on wires, thereby drastically improving communication? | Samuel F. B. Morse |
Final Question | |