Westward Expansion
Political, Economic, & Social Developments
Sectionalism
& Slavery
& Slavery
Internal Strife
Reconstruction
100
The idea that it is America's God given right and duty to spread American people and ideals from sea to shining sea.
Manifest Destiny
100
This early 19th-century program aimed to unify the nation’s economy through a national bank, protective tariffs, and infrastructure improvements.
American System
100
Identify two differences between the North and the South that led to the Civil War?
Views on Slavery
Economic Differences (Rural vs. Industrial)
State vs Federal Rights
100
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
BONUS: What is the name of the Supreme Court case that ruled to protect the rights of Native Americans to which President Jackson ignored. (+300)
Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears)
BONUS: Worchester v. Georgia (1832)
100
This 1867 act divided the South into military districts and required states to ratify the 14th Amendment for readmission to the Union.
Reconstruction Act of 1867
200
How did the Mexican Cession lead to growing tensions between the North & the South?
Most of the new territory is below the 36°30' line of the Compromise of 1820 raising issues over representation in Congress between free and slave states.
200
This infrastructure project connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean in 1825.
Erie Canal
200
This Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not U.S. citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott Decision
200
This political party, formed in the 1830s in part to oppose Andrew Jackson, supported a strong federal government and internal improvements.
Whig Party
200
This group sought to maintain white supremacy in the South and violently opposed Reconstruction efforts.
BONUS: Why did they wear white robes? (+300)
Ku Klux Klan
Claimed to be "ghosts of Confederate soldiers"
300
The idea that allowed the decision of slavery within a territory to be decided upon by the settlers of the area.
Popular Sovereignty
300
This 1848 convention marked the beginning of the organized women’s rights movement in the U.S.
Seneca Falls Convention
300
During President Jackson's presidency, an issue emerged over the Tariff of Abominations when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union.
Nullification Crisis
300
The policy of promoting or protecting the interests of people born in a country over those of immigrants.
Nativism
300
This government agency was instrumental in helping to assist both Black and white southerners after the war to find housing and fair employment contracts.
Freedmen's Bureau
400
This 1846 proposed resolution would prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico and highlighted the increased sectional tension of the time.
Wilmot Proviso
400
This major economic crisis during Martin Van Buren’s presidency was caused by the collapse of state banks that Andrew Jackson had previously established after vetoing the charter of the Second National Bank.
Panic of 1837
400
This 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, led by an enslaved preacher, intensified fears of slave uprisings in the South.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
400
This Congressional agreement in 1836 automatically tabled petitions regarding slavery, preventing debate on the issue.
Gag Rule (1836)
400
Provide two pieces of evidence supporting the claim that although Reconstruction led to some progress for formerly enslaved people, ultimately it was a failure.
Black Codes
Sharecropping or Tenant Farming
Emergence of Ku Klux Klan
500
A short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, that later merged into the Republican Party based out of Wilmot Proviso proposal for the integration of westward territories into states.
Free-Soilers of Free Soil Movement
500
This political party emerged in the 1820s and supported Andrew Jackson, advocating for the "common man."
Democratic Party
500
This failed 1860 proposal aimed to prevent Southern secession by protecting slavery south of the Missouri Compromise line.
Crittenden Compromise
500
A nativist political party and movement in the United States who believed immigrants were corrupting Northern cities.
Know-Nothings
500
What are the Reconstruction Amendments? Explain each amendment.
13th Amendment -- Abolished slavery
14th Amendment -- Guaranteed citizenship
15th Amendment -- Granted voting rights