The Age of Jackson
A political movement and philosophy from the late 1820s and 1830s that championed greater rights for the common man and showed how the people can impact government.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
Maine and Missouri were involved in this historic 1820 agreement that maintained an even number of free and slave states in the Union.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Union fort in Charleston, South Carolina where the first shots were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was brought about when President Lincoln's successor tried to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton which violated the Tenure of Office Act.
What is Andrew Johnson's impeachment?
America's first women's rights convention.
What is the Seneca Falls Conference of 1848?
Occurred in 1832 in South Carolina over high tariffs where they threatened to secede from the Union.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Fought in the 1840s, this war resulted in the United States acquiring Texas, California, and much of the southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The guarantee that a person cannot be imprisoned without being brought before a judge that was suspended during the Civil War.
What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
This Reconstruction-era federal agency reconnected families separated by slavery and provided clothes, medical attention, food, education, and even land to African Americans coming out of slavery.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Landmark 1857 Supreme Court case that decided that former slaves had no constitutional rights.
What is Scott vs. Sandford (aka The Dred Scott case)?
A series of business policies (i.e., tariffs, National Bank, highways and canals) proposed by Henry Clay that connected the North economically with the South and the West.
What is American System?
Political agreement that admitted California to the Union as a free state. This agreement also included the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
President Lincoln used his emergency powers to issue this historic document which freed slaves held in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What are the Civil War/Reconstruction Amendments?
Attack on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry by a band of radical abolitionists in order to seize weapons and give them to slaves which failed.
What is John Brown's Raid?
The Temperance Movement, Public Education Movement, and The Women's Rights Movements were birthed out this social reform movement from the early to mid 1800s that challenged traditional authority and unified the colonists to reform society.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This resulted in a bloody civil war within Kansas over the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Delivered by President Lincoln at the dedication of the cemetery where the bloodiest 3-day battle of the Civil War took place.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Laws that limited the rights of freed blacks.
What is the Black Codes?
Following the burning of the city of Atlanta, this Georgia city was the final destination point for General Sherman's "March to the Sea" Civil War campaign in 1864.
What is Savannah, Georgia?
Slavery should be abolished and it should not be allowed in new states were the key issues of this social reform movement.
What is the abolitionist movement?
Abraham Lincoln won this election before the Civil War began.
What is the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
Who were the Union and Confederate Leaders of the Civil War?
Reconstruction ended when federal troops left the south under this president who defeated Samuel Tilden in the controversial election of 1876.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
A secretive organization whose members often dressed in hooded white robes and who used violence, murder, and threats to intimidate blacks and those who favored giving African American equal rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?