Elections
Westward Expansion
Slavery
Politics
Civil War
100
This election pitted Henry Clay against Andrew Jackson, who was running for re-election and was largely focused on the national bank.
What is the Election of 1832?
100

The widely held belief that territorial acquisition and westward expansion was sanctioned by God and justified by Anglo Saxon superiority.

What is manifest destiny?
100
He played a key role in inflaming sectional tensions in both Kansas and Harpers' Ferry, Virginia
Who is John Brown?
100
It was started in New York in the 1840s and was anti expansion of slavery before joining with some other factions to become the Republicans by 1856.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
100
This event prompted the secession of the Upper South states after Lincoln had already taken office.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
200
This election, often referred to as the 'Corrupt Bargain' had to be settled by Congress, as none of the 4 candidates received a majority of electoral votes. John Quincy Adams was ultimately chosen.
What is the Election of 1824
200
White and Black settlement in the West was largely supported by this act, passed by Republicans during the Civil War.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
This was a defense of slavery that argued it benefited the slave, used by people like John C. Calhoun and George Fitzugh.
What is the 'positive good' theory?
200
This was Lincoln and the Republican's platform regarding slavery in the Election of 1860.
What is anti-expansion but non-interference?
200
This battle prompted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
300
This is often referred to as the 'Peaceful Revolution,' as power changed hands from Federalists to Democratic Republicans due to this election.
What is the Election of 1800?
300
This proposal to prohibit slavery in any territory gained from Mexico was put down by Southern votes in the Senate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
The Supreme Court limited the rights of African Americans and the right of Congress to regulate slavery in this case, decided in this year.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857?
300
This treaty caused new political tension over the settlement and division of lands acquired from Mexico over the issue of slavery.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
This agency provided resources for freed blacks and displaced whites in the years during and after the Civil War
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
400
The election of this man, in 1844 prompted John Tyler to annex Texas and demonstrated that public opinion supported westward expansion and Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?
400
This act, passed in 1854 after being pushed by him, opened territories to slavery that were previously closed to slavery via the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Stephen Douglas?
400
This aspect of the Compromise of 1850 was most offensive to the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
400
This political faction pushed for civil and political rights for African Americans and believed in punishing the South for the Civil War.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
400
This general, fired by Lincoln early in the war, later ran against him for President in 1864 as a 'Peace Democrat'
Who is George McClellan?
500
The election of this President AND this Vice President in 1840 signified a turning point, as the Whigs elected their first president by adopting the Democratic approach of appealing to the common man.
Who are William Henry Harrison and John Tyler?
500
This idea argued that the residents in a territory should decide whether to allow slavery or not. It also prompted the creation of THIS political party.
What is popular sovereignty and the Republican Party.
500
This state's addition to the Union upset the balance between Slave and Free states, which created an inbalance in the Senate.
What is California?
500
The three-fold goal of the Emancipation Proclamation.

What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war

500
This event best demonstrates the belief that the war was a 'rich man's war but a poor man's right' and the the divide over the new war aim of slavery.
What are the NYC Draft Riots?
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