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 in 1859
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 1861 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 to encourage westward expansion.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
This was a defense of slavery that argued that slavery actually benefited the slave; it was 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 1862 battle in Maryland prompted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam or the Battle of Sharpsburg?
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 case in 1857.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
300
This 1848 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 such as food, clothing, and fuel 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, opened territories to slavery that were previously closed to slavery via the Missouri Compromise. Name the act and its main proponent. 
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Stephen Douglas?
400
Nicknamed "The Bloodhound Law", 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 in September of 1850 upset the balance between Slave and Free states, which created an inbalance in the Senate.
What is California?
500

Pass after the Civil War, this states that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens; reaffirms due process, and confirms that no state can deprive a person of equal protection of the laws.  

What is the 14th Amendment?

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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