The Age of Jackson
The term for the expansion of voting rights to most white men during the 1820s-1830s
universal male suffrage
The religious movement that inspired abolition, temperance and women's rights
Second Great Awakening
This date-titled compromise attempted to settle slavery disputes after the Mexican American War
Compromise of 1850
The first shots of the Civil War were fired on this fort
Sumter
The agency created to assist formerly enslaved people after the war
Freedmen's Bureau
Jackson's practice of rewarding political supporters with governmental jobs
Spoils system
The 1848 convention that launched the women's rights movement
Seneca Falls Convention
The act that allowed settlers to vote on slavery, leading to violence in Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The union plan to blockade the south and the Mississippi River
Anaconda Plan
Suthern laws made during Reconstruction designed to restrict the freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
The crisis over a state's right to reject a federal tarrif
Nullification Crisis
The belief that the US had the god-given right to expand westward
Manifest Destiny
The Supreme Court decision stating that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories
Dred Scott
The battle that gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
The amendment that granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people
14th
The law that forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
Indian Removal Act
The novel that intensified northern opposition to slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The raid that heightened Southern fears of slave rebellion
John Brown Raid (Harper's Ferry)
Lincoln's speech redefining the purpose of the war in 1863
Gettysburg Address
White supremacist group founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest
KKK
The term for the path of the forced migration of the Cherokee people
Trail of Tears
The philosophy associated with Emerson and Thoreau empasizing individualism
trancendentalism
The political party formed to oppose the expansion of slavery
Republican Party
The site of Lee's surrender to Grant
Appomattox Court House
His ascention to the presidency in 1877 essentially ended Reconstruction
Rutherford B Hayes