1. What were 3 concerns George Washington expressed about the future of the nation in his 1796 Farewell Address? 2. What were the names of the first 2 political parties that formed?

3. How did the “Louisiana Purchase” by President Jefferson go against his principles?

4. How were Native Americans critically important in the journey of Lewis & Clark?

5. How did Alexander Hamilton have a big influence on early America even though he was never a President?

6. What was Jefferson’s famous statement about unity when he gave his inaugural [first] speech in March 1801?

7. How did America’s relations with France basically doom the presidency of John Adams?

8. How did America’s reliance on shipping and trade basically doom the presidency of Thomas Jefferson?

9. Who were the “War Hawks” and why were they so influential during the Madison presidency?

10. When the Americans burning the Canadian parliament building at York in 1813, how did this factor in to what happened just a year later in Washington DC/

11. What event inspired Francis Scott Key to write the “Star Spangled Banner” in 1814?

12. What is the War of 1812 also known as?

13. What did the 1820 Missouri Compromise do and accomplish? [at least for then]

14. Why was President Monroe’s 1823 “Monroe Doctrine” such a bold and daring move by any American President up to that point?

15. What were some things that President Jackson did that many of his critics deemed him worthy of the nickname “King Andrew”?

16. Why do you think the 1830 Indian Removal Act be an early “turning point” in American history?

17. In what unique way did the Cherokee fight back against the government in the wake of the 1830 Indian Removal Act? What was the result?

18. How did the Indian Removal Act eventually lead to the “Trail of Tears”?

19. How did events in Texas really damage relations between the US and Canada and perhaps eventually lead to war between the 2 countries?

20. Why did the “successes” of the Age of Jackson begin to fail after he left office with his successors, Van Buren and Tyler?