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100
This 19th-century belief claimed that the United States was destined to expand across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, hoping to incite a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
100
This political party was founded in the 1850s with an anti-slavery platform, opposing the expansion of slavery into new territories.
What is the Republican Party?
100
This invention revolutionized cotton production and increased the demand for enslaved labor.
100 BONUS POINTS: This is who invented it.
What is the cotton gin?
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
These religious revivals swept across the American colonies, emphasizing personal faith and emotional connections to God.
What are The Great Awakenings?
200
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and ceded large portions of land, including California, to the United States.
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe?
200
This decision case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
This resulted in Abraham Lincoln’s victory and prompted the secession of Southern states.
What is The Election of 1860?
200
This major discovery at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 sparked this migration of fortune seekers to California.
What is The Gold Rush?
200
This economic theory emphasized the accumulation of wealth through trade surpluses and colonial exploitation.
What is the Mercantilist Theory?
300
This slogan referred to the boundary dispute between the United States and Britain over the Oregon Territory.
What is the 54-40 or Fight?
300
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed this controversial process to decide whether slavery would be allowed in new territories, leading to violent conflict.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This principle allowed settlers in U.S. territories to decide, through voting, whether to permit slavery, a policy championed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
300
This crisis was triggered by declining international demand for American goods and a reduction in tariffs.
What is The Panic of 1857
300
This image depicts this political ideal:
100 BONUS POINTS: These 3 groups were targeted the most.
(Need to get 2/3 to get the point)
What is Nativism
Who are:
1. The Germans
2. The Irish
3. The Chinese
400
This 1854 act allowed settlers to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty, leading to an extremely violent conflict.
What is The Kansas Nebraska Act?
400
This controversial law required citizens to assist in the capture of escaped slaves for rewards, and denied captured individuals the right to legal protection.
What is The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
400
This political party made this piece of propaganda:
What are Whigs?
400
The Confederate government struggled with an extreme rise in inflation due to this problem.
What is overprinting paper money?
400
Decided in 1803, this case established the principle of judicial review, giving the Supreme Court the power to strike down unconstitutional laws.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
500
This group of Southern states seceded from the Union in 1861, forming their own government.
What are The Confederate States of America?
500
In this state, the caning of Charles Sumner occurred due to growing slavery tensions.
100 BONUS POINTS: These are the two important events that prompted this.
What is South Carolina?
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas?
500
These 1858 debates focused on slavery in the territories and helped Abraham Lincoln gain national prominence.
What is the Lincoln-Douglas Debate?
500
This 1853 land purchase secured territory in present-day Arizona and New Mexico for a potential southern railroad.
What is the Gadsden purchase?
500
This 1836 executive order, issued by Andrew Jackson, aimed to address the rampant land speculation and inflation caused by over-reliance on paper currency, requiring federal land purchases to be made in hard money.
What is Specie Circular?