Jacksonian Democracy
Manifest Destiny
The 1850s
Civil War Era
Reconstruction
100
Jackson accused National Republican candidate John Quincy Adams and this man of making a "corrupt bargain" in Congress to give the election to Adams.
Who is Henry Clay
100
Nicknamed the "manifest destiny President" because of his constant push to achieve new lands for America through treaty and conquest.
Who is James Polk
100
Author of the Kansas-Nebraska bill; staunch believer in the idea of "popular sovereignty" to decide state issues such as slavery.
Who is Stephen Douglas
100
The "party of Lincoln" which ran on the platform in 1860 that slavery should be prohibited in the territories by the federal government but protected in areas where it already existed
What is the Republican Party
100
Tennessee Senator who remained loyal to the Union, he ran with Lincoln on the 1864 ticket and became President after Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson
200
Andrew Jackson's reputation as a "strong executive" grew during this event by appearing to force South Carolina into accepting a federal engineered compromise rather than ignore the law and possibly secede
What is the "Nullification Crisis" of 1832-1833
200
Added to a military provision bill in 1846, this attachment would ban slavery in the soon-to-be acquired territories from Mexico. It failed to pass both houses.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
200
This novel about the "horrors of slavery", authored by a Northern woman with pro-abolition beliefs, set off a storm of protest and anger in the south.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
200
During the war, Delaware and these three "border states" maintained loyalty to the Union but still kept their slave-holding status.
What are Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
200
Considered to be the "military arm" of the Democratic party in the South, this group's original aim was to terrorize white and black Republicans and their supporters.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
300
Jackson's veto against the rechartering of this federal institution gave more power to state institutions in the same industry
What is The 2nd Bank of the United States
300
This agreement between the US and Mexico gave the US territorial rights to California, most of the Southwest, and a defined border at the Rio Grande.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
300
Included in the Compromises of 1850, this "strengthened" federal law guaranteed Southern Congressional support for the bill as well as its overall passage but angered many abolitionists in the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
300
Issued in 1863, this was partly done to "strengthen the moral cause" of the Union troops after a series of disastrous losses and a few key victories such as the one at Antietam.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
The "compromise of 1877" after the disastrous, contested Presidential election of 1876, gave the Presidency to this Republican candidate in exchange for the end of military occupation/Reconstruction policies in the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
400
In 1832, this sectional leader in Congress boldly stated that any individual state could, on its own authority, declare a federal law unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.
Who is John C. Calhoun
400
This "third-party" which gained support in the elections of 1840s ran on the platform that if slavery was allowed to expand into Northern territories, it would put small farmers at an economic disadvantage.
What is the Free-Soil Party
400
The key issue in Justice Taney's opinion of the Dred Scott v. Sandford case was the fact that African Americans (slave and free) did not hold this type of standing in the United States.
What is citizenship
400
The surrender of this key Southern city on July 4, 1863 after a long siege, as well as the decisive Union victory at Gettysburg the previous day, are seen as "the turning points" of the war in favor of the North.
What is Vicksburg, Mississippi
400
This law, passed in 1867, was designed to prevent the President (Andrew Johnson in particular) from removing a government official approved by the Senate without getting Senate permission first
What is the Tenure of Office Act
500
To counter the Jacksonian-Democrats in the election of 1840, the Whigs chose their version of Andrew Jackson to run against incumbent President Martin Van Buren.
Who is William Henry Harrison
500
In opposition to the profit-minded Northern industry and the land-hungry gains of the West and South, this group of Northern intellectuals offered an alternative lifestyle that focused on finding "divinity in nature" and a simplistic lifestyle.
What is transcendentalism
500
Massachusetts Senator who urged preservation of the Union during the heated 1850 Compromise debates by stating, "I speak today not as a a Massachusetts man, nor as a northern man, but as an American."
Who is Daniel Webster
500
The term the Confederacy used for their belief that European governments would support their cause based on the unchecked demand for "king cotton".
What is "cotton diplomacy"
500
After the veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, this measure was approved by Congress, the North, and all Southern states applying for readmission; it defined citizenship as "all those born and naturalized in the US" and forbade the state governments from "denying any civil rights without due process of law".
What is the 14th Amendment of the Constitution
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