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