Questions

Question 1

Where can you view the flag that inspired the star spangled banner

Answer 1

Smithsonian national museum at Washington

Question 2

What did Francis Scott key know had happened if the flag flying at fort Henry wasn’t rising at sunrise

Answer 2

The Americans had been defeated

Question 3

What did the French man Alexis de Tocqueville write about Americans in 1832

Answer 3

I do not know a country where the love of money holds a larger place in the heart of man

Question 4

What surged after the war in 1812

Answer 4

A great sense of patriotism

Question 5

Two out of three Americans

Answer 5

Lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean

Question 6

Fewer than ten Americans

Answer 6

Lived west of the appalachians

Question 7

Across the Mississippi lay

Answer 7

The frontier a vast unexplored wilderness

Question 8

Everywhere travel was

Answer 8

Difficult and slow

Question 9

Because of geographical differences

Answer 9

Distinct regional lifestyles developed leading to stereotypes

Question 10

What did the citizens need to unite the nation

Answer 10

They needed to feel American and be united

Question 11

What was one way to make Americans feel American

Answer 11

To build pride in their government

Question 12

What did congress build that was equal to the grand buildings of Europe following the war of 1812

Answer 12

The White House and the capitol building

Question 13

What are the two possibilities that Uncle Sam came from

Answer 13

US initials, or Sam Wilson who gave free meat to troops in the war of 1812

Question 14

Who did not share the American pride

Answer 14

Slaves native Americans and women

Question 15

Who was president under the US Era of good feeling

Answer 15

James Monroe

Question 16

Who ran for president unsuccessfully five times

Answer 16

Henry clay

Question 17

Who supported clay but resisted federalist powers

Answer 17

John c calhoun

Question 18

By the 1830s what did Calhoun become a spokesman of

Answer 18

States rights largely to protect slavery in the south

Question 19

What does his career illustrate

Answer 19

Tensions between nationalism and the pull of regional differences

Question 20

Who would disagree with Calhoun’s claim that states had the right to defy the federal government by 1825

Answer 20

Daniel Webster

Question 21

Who was a friend of nationalism and commerce and sat on the US Supreme Court

Answer 21

John Marshall

Question 22

How did Marshall’s decisions affect our country

Answer 22

Encouraged the growth of capitalism, strengthened the role of the US itself and the federal governments power over the states

Question 23

Who had the majority of votes from the electoral college in the election of 1824

Answer 23

No one

Question 24

Who did the house of reps elect as president in 1824

Answer 24

John Quincy Adams

Question 25

Who had received the most popular votes on Election Day in 1824

Answer 25

Andrew Jackson

Question 26

What political party grew from Jackson running again in 1828

Answer 26

The democrats

Question 27

What was here to stay

Answer 27

Partisan strife

Question 28

Whose work led to a uniquely brand of American fine art

Answer 28

Englishmen and Thomas cole

Question 29

What was James Audubon famous for

Answer 29

America’s artist of nature

Question 30

Where did the racist phrase “Jim Crow” come from

Answer 30

Black minstrel shows

Question 31

Name two of Washington Irving’s famous works of American literature

Answer 31

Rip van winkle and the legend of sleepy hollow

Question 32

Name two of James fennimore coopers books

Answer 32

The pioneers and the last of the Mohicans

Question 33

Who was Davy Crockett

Answer 33

A real life frontiersman a hunter a Scout a soldier and an explorer

Question 34

Name three poems written by Henry wadsworth Longfellow

Answer 34

The song of Hiawatha
Paul reveres ride
The building of the ship