Reconstruction
This federal agency, established in 1865, provided education, housing, and legal assistance to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This three-day battle in July of 1863 is often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The South decided to secede from the Union following the election of this president in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This treaty, negotiated with Britain during the French Revolution, angered Jeffersonians who saw it as a betrayal of France.
What is the Jay Treaty.
Andrew Jackson is known for implementing this policy, which allowed for the forced relocation of Native American tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Trail of Tears?
What is allowing the South to manage its own racial policies (effectively ending federal intervention in Reconstruction)?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The New York City Draft Riots in 1863 were partly fueled by opposition to this policy requiring men to join the Union army unless they paid for a substitute.
What is the draft?
The Compromise of 1850 included a provision allowing for popular sovereignty in these two territories, leaving the decision on slavery to their settlers.
What are Utah and New Mexico?
Thomas Jefferson believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution which did not allow for this Hamilton creation.
What is the national bank.
Lewis and Clark were tasked with finding a water route to the Pacific Ocean, but they discovered that this mountain range blocked their path.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
Reconstruction policies were largely implemented by this political party, which supported civil rights for African Americans.
What is the Republican Party? (Will also take: Who are the Radical Republicans?)
The Union’s victory at Antietam and subsequent releasing of the Emancipation Proclamation discouraged who from recognizing the Confederacy as an independent nation.
What are Britain and France? (Will also take variation of European Countries)
Bleeding Kansas was a violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers over the fate of this act.
What is the Kansas - Nebraska Act.
This Federalist policy, which expanded the power of the central government, was heavily criticized by Jefferson during the 1800 campaign because of this law.
This treaty, signed in 1848, ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in the U.S. acquiring vast territories including California and New Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
These acts, passed by Congress in 1867, divided the former Confederate states into five military districts to enforce federal Reconstruction policies.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
At the start of the Civil War, the South’s primary advantage lay in these two areas: fighting on local terrain and what other area.
What is more skilled leadership (and soldiers)?
The 1860 election was notable for featuring candidates from this many major political parties.
What is four?
The tax that incited the Whiskey Rebellion was part of Hamilton’s broader plan to fund this financial obligation.
What is national debt? (will also take a form of debt assumption.)
This landmark 1803 case established the principle of judicial review, allowing the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
In exchange for removing federal troops from the South, Republicans in the Compromise of 1877 agreed to this political concession to Southern Democrats.
What is Hayes becomes President.
While the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free all enslaved people, it strategically weakened this Confederate resource by encouraging slaves to flee or join Union forces.
What is the labor force?
This 1820 agreement maintained the balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Election of 1800 was decided in the House of Representatives after this vice-presidential candidate tied with Jefferson in electoral votes.
Who is Aaron Burr?
The 1828 election is considered a turning point for voter participation, as states began to expand suffrage to include more of this group, previously excluded from voting.
Who are white male non-property owners?