Washington and the Early Republic
This cabinet member advocated for a national bank and a strong federal government
Alexander Hamilton
This phrase described the belief that Americans were destined to spread across North America.
Manifest Destiny
The "common man" president who expanded democracy for white males.
This reform movement sought to end alcohol consumption
Temperance
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
This is considered a turning point in the Civil War, making the Confederacy unable to launch further attacks into Northern territory.
Battle of Gettysburg
Lincoln's plan required this percentage of a state's voters to take a loyalty oath before readmission to the Union.
10%
Washington warned against permanent alliances and political parties in his famous address
Washington's Farewell Address
This document reflected growing American nationalism by declaring the Western Hemisphere off-limits to future European colonization
Monroe Doctrine
This transportation project connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic ocean
Erie Canal
This religious movement inspired many reform efforts in the early 1800s
Second Great Awakening
This principle allowed settlers to vote on slavery in a territory
Popular Sovereignty
Before the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were often classified by this term.
Contraband
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
13th Amendment
This Supreme Court case established judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
This territory's annexation in 1845 helped spark tensions with Mexico.
Texas
This crisis involved South Carolina claiming states could ignore federal laws
Nullification Crisis
This author wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Violence in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act became known by this nickname
Bleeding Kansas
This executive order framed freeing enslaved people in rebelling states as a war measure
Emancipation Proclamation
One major goal of these laws made during presidential reconstruction was to control the labor of freedmen after emancipation.
Black Codes
This historian's term describes the period after the War of 1812 characterized by one-party dominance and a temporary decline in partisan conflict.
Era of Good Feelings
This president aggressively pursued western expansion and led the US into the Mexican American War
James K. Polk
Jackson vetoed the recharter of this institution.
Second National Bank
This reformer escaped slavery and became one of the most influential abolitionist speakers, delivering the speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
Frederick Douglass
This Compromise admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
This Union general's March to the Sea sought to weaken Southern morale and destroy the Confederacy's ability to wage war.
William Tecumseh Sherman
This was a method by which the former Confederacy tried to replace slavery using an exploitative system surrounding tenant farmers.
This Treaty ended the War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
President Polk claimed that Mexican troops had shed American blood on American soil in this disputed region.
Between Nueces River/ Rio Grande (I will take either River)
This was an illegal treaty between Cherokee people with no authority and the US government and became the legal basis for the Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears.
Treaty of New Echota
This was a new religious group during the Second Great Awakening that would eventually become the Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses after the "Great Disappointment" when they thought Jesus would return and he did not.
Millerites
John Brown led a raid on this federal armory in 1859 that resulted in his arrest and execution
This battle between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia demonstrated the importance of ironclad warships.
Battle of Hampton Roads
Johnson frequently granted these to former Confederates, allowing them to regain property and political rights.
Pardons (I will take synonyms)
Jefferson justified the Louisiana Purchase using this constitutional power for the president, despite concerns that the Constitution did not explicitly authorize acquiring territory.
After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which cost the US $15 million, this was a second purchase of land at the bottom of the new territory sold by Mexico for $10 million.
Gadsden Purchase
This Supreme Court case recognized Cherokee sovereignty, though Jackson ignored it.
Worcester v. Georgia
Unlike the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening reflected this broader democratic trend during this time period that emphasized the importance and moral responsibility of ordinary individuals in politics.
expansion of democracy/the rise of the common man (Any variation of this will count)
This Supreme Court ruling declared that Congress could not ban slavery in the western territories, and that Black Americans cannot be citizens and have no right to sue in court.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This Civil War battle marked the bloodiest single day in American history, made it impossible for the Confederacy to receive foreign support, and gave Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
This was a method by which the former Confederacy tried to replace slavery by arresting freedpeople using the Black Codes and other minor offenses, then having prisons rent prisoner's labor out to plantations.
Convict Leasing System