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This man was the son of former president John Adams and known for striking a "corrupt bargain" to attain the presidency.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This term is defined as a person who is running away from legal authority.
What is fugitive?
This conflict was over the issue of slavery in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
After passage of the Indian Removal Act, this Native American tribe was forced to march thousands of miles to the "Indian Territory" in what is today Oklahoma.
Who are the Cherokee?
This system of cooperating safe houses for escaped slaves helped to rescue many enslaved African Americans.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This man led U.S. troops at the Battle of New Orleans and later became one of the most controversial presidents in U.S. history.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This term describes someone in pre-Civil War America who was against slavery and sought the freedom of all enslaved African Americans in the South.
What is an abolitionist?
This invention, created by Eli Whitney in 1793, revolutionized the cotton industry in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
Andrew Jackson drew criticism for appointing friends and supporters to political positions in a practice that became known as ___________ .
What is the spoils system?
__________ were laws that were meant to control enslaved people.
What are slave codes?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This term is the Spanish word for land agent whose job it was to bring new settlers to an area.
What is empresario?
Name the three major innovations in transportation that occurred in the U.S. before the Civil War.
What are the steamboat, locomotive, and clipper ship?
South Carolina passed this law in 1832, declaring it would not pay "illegal" federal tariffs under the justification that it was within their rights as a state.
What is the Nullification Act?
This individual managed the plantation and was responsible for disciplining slaves.
Who is the overseer?
This woman is known as the "Mother of Texas".
Who is Jane Long?
This term was first coined by journalist John O'Sullivan and meant the U.S. was clearly destined by God to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is "Manifest Destiny"?
This invention was created by Samuel Morse and revolutionized communication in the United States.
What is the telegraph?
Andrew Jackson vetoed this bill, arguing that the money it required should come from Kentucky because it benefited Kentucky, not the country as a whole, and thus led to the Nullification Crisis.
What is the Maysville Road Bill?
This Supreme Court case argued that because slaves were property, and not people, the Constitution upheld slavery. It is now one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of all time.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This man is known as the "Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?
This term is defined as a farmer who independently owned a small farm in the Antebellum South.
What is yeoman?
In 1835, the federal government convinced the Cherokee to sign this treaty, which forced them to give up all of their land by 1838.
What is the Treaty of New Ochoa?
This Supreme Court case ruled that a national bank was constitutional, despite what Andrew Jackson said.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This example of African American culture that blossomed during the Antebellum Era drew on African rhythms and would set the tempo for their work in the fields.
What is the field holler?