the making of america

Question 1

what were the first 13 states in the east?

Answer 1

Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania , Rhode Island and Virgin Island

Question 2

When did US gain independence from Britain?

Answer 2

1776-1783

Question 3

Who was the first president?

Answer 3

George Washington

Question 4

In the 1780s who could vote?

Answer 4

White propertied men

Question 5

What happened to the Native Americans in the 1790s when America began to expand?

Answer 5

They were forced west into land already occupied by other tribes

Question 6

When did thousands of plantations begin to appear?

Answer 6

1790-1838 in new territories

Question 7

Who was the group who fought to remove slavery?

Answer 7

The Abolitionists

Question 8

What was the cotton gin and when was it invented?

Answer 8

In 1793 a machine was made that could process cotton 50X faster

Question 9

Which president first set a goal to make routes across the continent?

Answer 9

Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809

Question 10

What was the Louisiana purchase?

Answer 10

President Jefferson bought the land of Louisiana(530 million acres of land) for only $15 million in 1803

Question 11

who was given the task of exploring new lands?

Answer 11

Merriweather Lewis and William Clark 1804

Question 12

What did exploration of the new lands cause?

Answer 12

Explosion in the fur trade to sell beaver fur in Europe

Question 13

Who were the five ‘civilised’ tribes?

Answer 13

Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole

Question 14

why did southern whites worry about the risks of slavery?

Answer 14

In 1803 there was a successful revolt in the Caribbean island of St Dominique

Question 15

What was the centre of the cotton kingdom?

Answer 15

1819 New Orleans was the 4th biggest city in the US and the centre of the deep south’s cotton kingdom

Question 16

What was the cotton kingdom?

Answer 16

Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama

Question 17

By 1820 how much of US exports was cotton?

Answer 17

42%

Question 18

What was the 1820 Missouri compromise?

Answer 18

A virtual line across the country of which any southern states were allowed slavery. This lead to states being paired when added one could have slavery one couldn’t

Question 19

What were the 5 civilised tribes like by 1820?

Answer 19

They had their own society with their own schools, newspapers and churches

Question 20

why did the south become more influential on politics as it grew?

Answer 20

Slavery meant slave owners got more power in the votes and some presidents openly supported slavery such as Andrew Jackson 1829-37

Question 21

Why was the slave trade needed?

Answer 21

By 1838 a million bales of cotton where made yearly so it was needed to keep the economy booming. However opposition towards slavery was growing

Question 22

What was the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 22

An act in 1830 which promised money to tribes if they relocated west of Mississippi river

Question 23

What did Jackson believe about the Tribes?

Answer 23

That they should be treated like children

Question 24

What was the result of the Indian removal act?

Answer 24

The Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes(15000 in total) moved and gave up 11 million acres of land. The Cherokee won at supreme court and could stay but the creek refused to move

Question 25

what was the result of the Indian removal act on the Seminole tribe?

Answer 25

some Seminole agreed to move but others didn’t which resulted in the Seminole wars 1835-42 which they lost and were forced to move west

Question 26

What happened to Creek after the treaty they signed?

Answer 26

2 years later in 1832 they signed a treaty to give up some of Alabama after being promised their own sections of land White settlers began to settle there so they attacked them but this resulted in the army moving them

Question 27

What was the trail of tears?

Answer 27

The army forcibly moved the Cherokee tribe west and by 1838 only 2000 survived as 4000 died on the way from starvation, cold and disease.

Question 28

How many Native Indians were moved?

Answer 28

by 1838 46000 were moved