People
This President led an attack on the Second Bank of the United States in the 1830s.
Andrew Jackson
This, passed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, called for the relocation of the southeastern Native American tribes to Indian Territory
Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson's policies angered many American politicians, leading to the formation of this political party.
The Whig Party
This individual, a former Whig politician in Tennessee, would later die at the Alamo. However, he would be best remembered as a mythic hero of the frontier.
Davy Crockett
He won the 1860 Election and became President of the United States on the eve of the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
This document, modeled after the U.S. Declaration of Independence, called for the inclusion of women into the broader framework of American citizenship.
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
This state was the first state to secede from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln
South Carolina
This policy, embraced by many Republicans, called for the western territories to rely on wage, rather than enslaved, labor.
Free Soil
This President, a strong believer in the nation's "manifest destiny," led the United States into a War with Mexico in 1846
James K. Polk
In Alexander Stephens Cornerstone Speech, what does he consider to be the "cornerstone" of the Confederate States?
Slavery
He led a raid on Harper's Ferry in the 1850s in an attempt to start a large-scale slave rebellion to destroy the institution.
John Brown
A product of the Market Revolution, the development of canals, railroads, and advanced methods of shipping goods across the nation is referred to as this.
Transportation Revolution
This Democratic Senator from Illinois advocated for the application of "popular sovereignty" to solve the slavery question in the territories.
Stephen Douglas
This document proclaims that all slaves in states or territories that are in rebellion against the Union are free.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This Act, passed in 1854, called for the implementation of popular sovereignty upon several western territories and led to the collapse of the Whig Party
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This event, occurring in the capital of the Confederate States, was caused by the increase in the price of flour due to war rations during the Civil War. Many women, in particular, led the charge in demonstrating their frustration with the war.
Richmond Bread Riot
This individual, a close friend of Andrew Jackson, was the architect of the Democratic Party.
Martin Van Buren
An exchange of letters between these two individuals shows both the ascribed role of women in the mid-19th century and how some women sought to challenge those conceptions.
Angelina Grimke and Catherine Beecher
The first shots of the Civil War occurred here in April of 1861 after Confederate forces fired upon and eventually seized this Union installation.
Fort Sumter
This concept refers to the ways in which white male slaveholders saw themselves as father figures to their slaves, who they viewed as parts of their extended families
Paternalism
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provided full citizenship, due process, and equal protection under the laws to all people born in the United States (excluding Native Americans).
The 14th Amendment