Sectionalism
What is ...
1) Maine - free state
2) Missouri - slave state
3) No new slave states below the 36°30' line?
Document that said European countries cannot colonize in South America
What is the Monroe Doctrine (1823)?
This federal organization help former slaves find jobs, housing, and education after the end of slavery
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Most famous political machine
Bonus point for who ran it
What was Tammany Hall?
Who was Boss Tweed?
This tycoon used horizontal integration to monopolize the oil industry.
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision regarding California statehood.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Land gained during the Mexican American War. Sparked debates over the expansion of slavery.
What is the Mexican Cession? (1848, parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma)
This finally convinced the French and English that they could definitely not recognize or support the Confederate States of America.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Was designed to take advantage of the economic changes in the US post-War of 1812 and unite the country socially, politically, and economically; federal funding of public works projects
What was the American System (TNT)?
The idea that the wealthy had earned their money and if someone was poor it was their own fault.
What is Social Darwinism?
Debate over this legislative decision led to violence in the West and violence in the legislature itself.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act? `
The idea that it is America's God given right and duty to spread American people and ideals from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This constitutional amendment gave all African American men the right to suffrage in 1870
What is the 15th Amendment?
Jackson Vice-President who penned the South Carolina Exposition, a defense of nullification
Who was John C. Calhoun?
The term for the industrialization of the South after Reconstruction
What is the New South?
The political concept that the residents of a territory should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery when applying for statehood
What is popular sovereignty?
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution. Made possible by the Haitian Revolution.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The most direct catalyst/reason for the secession of South Carolina.
What is the election of Lincoln in 1860?
Significance of the Election of 1824
What is the split of the Democrat-Republican party?
"Corrupt Bargain" between John Q. Adams and Henry Clay that led to Andrew Jackson to launch the Democrat Party (and later down the line, the Whig party)
This movement aimed to apply Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice, such as economic inequality, poverty, crime, child labor, etc.
What is the Social Gospel?
This 1846 proposed resolution would prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico and highlighted the increased sectional tension of the time
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This outlawed trade with all foreign countries and was another example of Jefferson and the Democrat-Republicans switching their Strict Interpretation of the Constitution to Broad.
The President after Lincoln was assassinated, he was impeached for violating the tenure of office act but acquitted, attempted a lenient version of reconstruction
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
Bonus points for what court case was supposed to have struck this down.
What is the Trail of Tears/Indian Removal Act?
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This law outlawed monopolies and allowed the government to break up companies that restricted free trade; not very successful (in its 1st iteration)
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?