The Federalist Period
These people were the First and Second Presidents of the United States.
Who is George Washington and John Adams?
This decree forced the Indians off their lands and west of the Mississippi River. The trail that many were forced to take was later known as the "River of Tears".
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 2000-mile passage led from the state of Missouri to a western territory and helped led to the Great Emigration of 1843.
What was the Oregon Trail?
General Sherman gave a field order to give confiscated land to former southern slaves but was later reversed by President Andrew Johnson.
What is Forty-Acres and a Mule?
In 1929 Chicago, several men, dressed as policemen, shot and killed a rival gang.
What is the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre?
This party was America's first political party and wanted a strong central government. Geroge Washington belonged to this party was well.
Who is the Federalist Party?
This law made it illegal for states and municipalities to nullify federal laws. Jackson also threatened to enforce this law with force.
What is the Nullification Proclamation?
This mindset was used as justification for westward expansion into California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Oregon territories.
What is manifest destiny?
This bill outlined the terms for rebel states to gain representation in Congress again, and divided the South into 5 seperate military zones.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This bill was put into law in 1919, which banned the production, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. It did not, however, outlaw its consumption.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This was a series of armed protests by Massachusetts farmers in opposition to heavy taxation and unfair penalties.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This brief party was created during the Jackson administration, to oppose the main Democratic party of the time.
What is the Whigs party?
This act allowed Southern States to send groups into Northern States to find and returned escaped slaves. This act was re-worked in the 1850s.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
This bill ended prohibition in the United States in 1933.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The treaty of Ghent ended this war in 1814.
What is the War of 1812?
This individual led a slave rebellion in Virgina during the early 1830s.
Who is Nat Turner?
This term was coined to describe the situation of northern and southern settlers rushing to Kanas to decide its type of statehood.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The man who killed Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This "gangster" was notorious in Chicago for bootlegging during the Prohibition Era.
Who is Al Capone?
This Act made criticizing the government punishable by fine or imprisonment and gave the government power to expel or imprison "Aliens" if deemed too dangerous or in times of war.
What is the Alien and Sedition Act?
The Battle of the Alamo is a well-known battle in this southern state during between 1835 and 1836.
What is the Texas Revolution?
This deal allowed for Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, and allowed Maine to enter the union as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The bill that abolished slavery across the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This group attacked the sales and consumption of alcohol in the 1920s. This group worked alongside the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
What is the Anti-Saloon League?