🏛️ FIRST FIVE PRESIDENTS
As the first president, he established precedents that future presidents followed.
Who is George Washington?
During Jacksonian Democracy, voting rights expanded primarily for this group.
Who are white men?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Confederate attack on this fort marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This president's Sedition Act restricted certain criticism of the federal government and became a major political controversy.
Who is John Adams?
This law supported the forced relocation of Native Americans from their lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This belief said the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Compared with the South, the North had more factories, railroads, and this important military resource.
What is a larger population?
This federal agency provided education, food, and other assistance after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1803 purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States and expanded presidential power.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
South Carolina claimed states had the power to reject federal laws during this crisis.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This 1854 law allowed settlers to vote on slavery through popular sovereignty, leading to violence in Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This battle stopped Lee's 1862 invasion and gave Lincoln an opportunity to move forward with emancipation.
What is Antietam?
Match them correctly: 13th, 14th, and 15th.
What are slavery abolished, citizenship/equal protection, and voting rights?
This war during James Madison's presidency helped strengthen American nationalism and national identity.
What is the War of 1812?
Henry Clay promoted this economic plan involving transportation improvements and stronger connections between regions.
What is the American System?
In this Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in U.S. territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy.
What is Vicksburg?
These Southern laws attempted to restrict the freedom of formerly enslaved African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This foreign-policy statement warned European nations against further colonization or interference in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This religious movement encouraged reforms involving temperance, public education, women's suffrage, and abolition.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
His victory in the Election of 1860 triggered a secession crisis as Southern states began leaving the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
His capture of Atlanta damaged Confederate transportation and supplies while increasing Northern support for Lincoln.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This disputed presidential election helped lead to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Election of 1876?