People in Government
This was the 7th President. Known for Trail of Tears, Nullification Crisis, and Killing the Central Bank.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This abolitionist fueled violent protest in Kansas and was hung after trying to start a slave revolt in Virginia in the 1850's
Who is John Brown?
The primary goal of this Compromise in 1820 was to balance the power in Congress between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
President Polk's legacy was to expand the borders of the United States to the Pacific Ocean. This idea is called what?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is veto?
Who was Stephen Douglas?
These sisters were vocal abolitionists who grew up on a plantation in South Carolina and also believed in Women's Rights.
Who were the Grimke sisters?
When South Carolina threated to secede rather than pay tariffs, President Jackson threatened to use military force. This is known as the what?
What is the Nullification Crisis?
What is Mexico?
South Carolina threatened to do this in 1832 during the Nullification Crisis, and was the first to do this in 1860 after Abraham Lincoln won the Presidency. It means for a state to leave the Union.
What is secede?
Senator from Kentucky known as "The Great Compromiser" who came up with the Compromise of 1850.
Who was Henry Clay?
This man was an escaped slave and a powerful public speaker who became an abolitionist, and supporter of women's rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by which Supreme Court case in 1857 that also declared that slaves were not citizens and had no right to sue.
What is Dred Scott v Sanford?
The most significant outcome of the Mexican American War was that it helped the United States expand what?
What is new Western territory? (California, New Mexico, Arizona, some of Texas and Colorado)
In the 1850's, events like the Kansas Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott v Sanford case created divisions in the North and South called what?
What is Sectionalism?
Lawyer from Illinois who was the Republican candidate for President in 1860 who believed slavery was morally, socially, and politically wrong.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This escaped slave was a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and led many slaves to freedom.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The admission of California as a Free State as part of the Compromise of 1850 would have been appealing to which region of the United States?
What is the north?
James Polk also negotiated the addition of these lands in the Northwest that touch the Pacific Ocean from Britain, where the boundary is the 49th Parallel.
What is the Oregon Territory?
What is the American System?
This Senator from South Carolina declared that the increased tariffs passed by Congress were abusive from the government and should be "null and void"
Who is John C Calhoun?
This former slave and abolitionist also believed in equal rights for women.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This Rebellion in 1794 began as a tax on distilled alcohol and ended when George Washington sent troops to Pennsylvania to end it, strengthening the authority of the National Government.
Declared by President Monroe in 1823, this prevented Britain from taking over any more territories in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This was an early form of Nullification to opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by John Adams.
What is the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?