History of the Americas Questions

"The ________ Act" of 1807, implemented in response to seizures of US shipping, impressment ofAmerican sailors into the Royal Navy, and other violations of US neutrality in the Napoleonic Wars, was one of several Jefferson Administration policies during his second term that were widely unpopular and severelydamaged the economy as well as maritime trade in New England and many seaport cities along the Eastern Seaboard.

"The ________ Purchase" of 1803, the sale of French North American possessions west of the Mississippi by Emperor Napoleon, doubled the territorial size of the United States and ensured the US control of the Mississippi River, was a result of a combination of French naval defeats, the successful HaitianRevolution against France, and the willingness of the Jefferson Administration to purchase the territory despite potential conflicts with the US Constitution.

The fifth President of the United States was ____________, a Virginia lawyer, politician, Revolutionary War Officer and a Secretary of State under President Madison, served during the "era of good feelings" and is most noted for his development of an enduring diplomatic doctrine preventing the formation of new European colonies in the Americas.

In 1803, __________ became the first new State admitted to the Union under the auspices of the new United States Constitution.

In 1808, __________________-, the author of the "Virginia Plan" which became the basis for the United States Constitution, was elected as the fourth President of the United States."

By an Act of Congress, the importation of slaves into the United States was banned in the year _________.

________________ was the third President of the United States. This Virginian was a Plantation and Slave owner, the main author of the Declaration of Independence, a former envoy to France, and was the second President to serve two terms in office.

In order to coordinate the efforts of the various colonies, militias and other actors in the aftermath of thebattles between local militia and British forces, the Continental Congress established the ________Army on 14 June 1775 and appointed George Washington, a Virginia delegate and experienced militia commander, as Commanding General

In Ohio territory, following the defeat of two "contract" armies by Tecumseh's confederation, Major General "Mad" Anthony Wayne led his "Legion of the United States", the reformulation of a national United States Army, to victory over the Indian Confederation at fallen Timbers and the Treaty of ___________ in 1795.

The first enduring British colony was founded at Jamestown in the year _______

A major multifaceted conflict that started over a pig in Virginia in 1675-1677, roughly concurrent with the Susquehannock War, that encapsulated the issues of American Indian/Colonist Warface as well as the political struggle between appointed Royal authorities and local elected officials was known as ______.

Founded by the Spanish in 1565, _______ was the first permanent continuously-occupied European settlement north of the Rio Grande river in North America.

Eli Whitney's 1793 invention of the ___________ Gin, which could mechanically remove cotton seeds from raw cotton, combined with the planting of new cotton strains would change the nature of Southern slavery at a time when Northern states were restricting or abolishing slavery.

________________ was elected as the first President of the United States and was inaugurated in New York City on 30 April 1789.

One of the first major domestic challenges to the authority of the Federal Government following the ratification of the United States Constitution was "The ______________ Rebellion" which was centered in the Appalachian counties of Pennsylvania and New York, which was triggered by the implementation of a Federal excise tax on distilled spirits.

One of the first direct taxes levied on the American colonists by the British in 1765 that essential taxed newspapers, legal documents and periodicals was known as "The _________ Act"

The ___________, the original constitution for the United States, was ratified in 1781.

The second President of the United States, __________, was a Federal lawyer from Massachusetts, signer of the Declaration of Independence, former envoy, and Vice President to George Washington.

The United States fought several conflicts against _____ who were often supported overtly or covertly by the British, along the frontier (the present day states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois) between 1786 and 1815.

A combination of the "Barbary Pirate" menace to American merchant shipping in the Mediterranean Sea as well as the "Quasi War" with Revolutionary France led to the construction of six large Frigates and the functional re-establishment of the United States _________.