Constitutional Crossroads/Party Politics, 1798–1840
This 1798 law, the least-remembered of the four, extended the residency requirement for naturalization from five years to fourteen, targeting Irish and French immigrants who voted Republican.
What is the Naturalization Act of 1798?
Jefferson dispatched this pair in 1804 to explore the Louisiana Purchase and seek a water route to the Pacific.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Clay's omnibus bill failed; this Illinois senator salvaged the Compromise of 1850 by splitting it into separate measures passed by shifting coalitions.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
Lincoln pocket-vetoed this 1864 congressional plan requiring a majority — not ten percent — of white male citizens to swear loyalty.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Put these in order: Missouri Compromise, Hartford Convention, Monroe Doctrine.
Hartford Convention (1814), Missouri Compromise (1820), Monroe Doctrine (1823)?
Calhoun anonymously authored this 1828 protest against the "Tariff of Abominations" while serving as vice president under the very administration it attacked.
What is the South Carolina Exposition and Protest?
This 1830 law authorized the president to negotiate the exchange of eastern tribal lands for territory west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
At Freeport in 1858, Douglas argued that settlers could exclude slavery regardless of Dred Scott simply by refusing to enact these
What are local police regulations / slave codes?
Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton allegedly violated this 1867 statute, generating the first article of impeachment.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
Order these three: Wilmot Proviso, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill.
What is Wilmot Proviso (1846), gold at Sutter's Mill (January 1848), Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 1848)?
Jefferson called his 1800 victory this, claiming it restored the republic's original principles through ballots rather than bullets.
What is the "Revolution of 1800"?
Roughly a quarter of the Cherokee Nation died on this forced 1838–39 migration to Indian Territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Douglas's 1854 act organized two territories and let settlers vote on slavery, drawing furious northern protest because it voided the 36°30′ line.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Created in 1865, this federal agency provided food, legal aid, and schools to freedpeople and refugees; Johnson vetoed its renewal.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Sequence these 1850s flashpoints: Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congress, caning of Charles Sumner, Dred Scott decision.
What is Sumner caning (May 1856), Dred Scott (March 1857), Lecompton defeated (1858)?
Federalist delegates meeting here in 1814–15 to protest the War of 1812 were branded traitors when news of New Orleans arrived, effectively killing the party.
What is the Hartford Convention?
Coined in 1845, this phrase held that Americans had a God-given mission to spread across the continent
What is manifest destiny?
Missourians who crossed the border to vote illegally in Kansas elections — and to intimidate free-state settlers — were known by this name.
Who are the Border Ruffians?
This 1867 act divided the ex-Confederacy into five military districts and required new constitutions guaranteeing Black male suffrage.
What is the Military (Radical) Reconstruction Act?
Place these in order: Fifteenth Amendment ratified, Slaughter-House Cases, Ku Klux Klan Act, Civil Rights Act of 1875.
What is Fifteenth Amendment (1870), Ku Klux Klan Act (1871), Slaughter-House (1873), Civil Rights Act of 1875?
Jackson's supporters used this phrase to describe the 1824 arrangement in which Henry Clay became secretary of state after throwing his support to John Quincy Adams.
What is the "corrupt bargain"?
Fleeing persecution after the murder of Joseph Smith, this religious group migrated to the Great Salt Lake basin in 1847 under Brigham Young.
Who are the Mormons (Latter-day Saints)?
Three days after the proslavery sack of this free-state town in May 1856, John Brown's party killed five settlers at Pottawatomie Creek.
What is Lawrence?
Lacking land or capital, most freedpeople ended up in this labor arrangement, working a plot for a share of the crop and falling into permanent debt.
What is sharecropping?
Place these in order: Fort Sumter, secession of South Carolina, Lincoln's inauguration, formation of the Confederacy.
What is South Carolina secedes (Dec. 1860), Confederacy formed (Feb. 1861), Lincoln inaugurated (March 1861), Fort Sumter (April 1861)?