American Presidents
Which President paved the way for “Manifest Destiny” by telling all European powers to stay out of the entire Western Hemisphere
What is James Monroe
This Compromise was a direct result of the war with Mexico
What is The Compromise of 1850
What was the drinking song the British sang when they marched out of Yorktown after the surrender?
What is "The World Turned Upside Down"?
Formally created 1854 and held its first meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin
What is the Republican Party?
What election was significant because it was the first time that all white men could vote
What is the election of Andrew Jackson?
Which president was a W.I.N.O. (Whig In Name Only)?
What is John Tyler?
What changed the focus of the Civil War from preserving the Union to the issue of slavery?
What is The Emancipation Proclamation
Who defended the British soldiers charged with murder during the "Boston Massacre?"
What is John Adams?
These events gave Lincoln tremendous national exposure and he gained tremendous credibility
What is The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
During the 1820s, a new ideal of womanhood and a new ideology about the home arose out of the new attitudes about work and family, due to industrialization and the creation of a middle class. What is this ideology called?
What is the Cult of Domesticity
Whose Presidency was doomed from the start because of his predecessor's banking policies and forcing the American Indians out of the East?
What is Martin Van Buren
This was written as a reaction to the Fugitive Slave Law criticizing nut just the South, but the North as well
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who wrote the majority of the Federalist Papers?
What is Alexander Hamilton?
Took place at Harper's Ferry, Virginia and made the leader a martyr of Abolition
What is John Brown’s Raid
The Cherokee's forced march to the Indian Territory is known as what?
What is The Trail of Tears
Who was the only president of the Lone Star Republic?
What is Sam Houston
This repealed the Missouri Compromise with the question of slavery to be settled by popular sovereignty in each territory
What is The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854
What is another name for the Philadelphia Congress?
What is the Continental Congress?
What party had two candidates for President in the election of 1860?
What is the Democratic party
According to the Cult of Domesticity, what was the Woman's role?
What is to “civilize” & educate her husband and family
Who believed the Union must be preserved, otherwise it was a betrayal of the Founding Fathers.
What is Abraham Lincoln
A small scale prelude to the catastrophe that engulfed the entire nation only 5 years later.
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
What main problem did the Continental army experience?
What is inadequate supplies
The ruling on this case stated that African Americans were not citizens and that the Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional
What is The Dred Scott Case
In 1832, Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that the U.S. should protect the Cherokees and their land in Georgia. What did President Andrew Jackson do?
What is ignored the Supreme Court ruling & forced the Cherokee Nation to be moved west of the Mississippi