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Where can you view the flag that inspired the star spangled banner
Smithsonian national museum at Washington
What did Francis Scott key know had happened if the flag flying at fort Henry wasn’t rising at sunrise
The Americans had been defeated
What did the French man Alexis de Tocqueville write about Americans in 1832
I do not know a country where the love of money holds a larger place in the heart of man
What surged after the war in 1812
A great sense of patriotism
Two out of three Americans
Lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean
Fewer than ten Americans
Lived west of the appalachians
Across the Mississippi lay
The frontier a vast unexplored wilderness
Everywhere travel was
Difficult and slow
Because of geographical differences
Distinct regional lifestyles developed leading to stereotypes
What did the citizens need to unite the nation
They needed to feel American and be united
What was one way to make Americans feel American
To build pride in their government
What did congress build that was equal to the grand buildings of Europe following the war of 1812
The White House and the capitol building
What are the two possibilities that Uncle Sam came from
US initials, or Sam Wilson who gave free meat to troops in the war of 1812
Who did not share the American pride
Slaves native Americans and women
Who was president under the US Era of good feeling
James Monroe
Who ran for president unsuccessfully five times
Henry clay
Who supported clay but resisted federalist powers
John c calhoun
By the 1830s what did Calhoun become a spokesman of
States rights largely to protect slavery in the south
What does his career illustrate
Tensions between nationalism and the pull of regional differences
Who would disagree with Calhoun’s claim that states had the right to defy the federal government by 1825
Daniel Webster
Who was a friend of nationalism and commerce and sat on the US Supreme Court
John Marshall
How did Marshall’s decisions affect our country
Encouraged the growth of capitalism, strengthened the role of the US itself and the federal governments power over the states
Who had the majority of votes from the electoral college in the election of 1824
No one
Who did the house of reps elect as president in 1824
John Quincy Adams
Who had received the most popular votes on Election Day in 1824
Andrew Jackson
What political party grew from Jackson running again in 1828
The democrats
What was here to stay
Partisan strife
Whose work led to a uniquely brand of American fine art
Englishmen and Thomas cole
What was James Audubon famous for
America’s artist of nature
Where did the racist phrase “Jim Crow” come from
Black minstrel shows
Name two of Washington Irving’s famous works of American literature
Rip van winkle and the legend of sleepy hollow
Name two of James fennimore coopers books
The pioneers and the last of the Mohicans
Who was Davy Crockett
A real life frontiersman a hunter a Scout a soldier and an explorer
Name three poems written by Henry wadsworth Longfellow
The song of Hiawatha
Paul reveres ride
The building of the ship
