Famous Women
She warned her husband to "Remember the Ladies...or else we might foment a rebellion of our own."
Who is Abigail Adams
This bungled meeting in France led to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
What is the XYZ Affair
This first all-black regiment fought bravely in the Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusetts
This agency served as a welfare agency for homeless whites and newly freed slaves in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the court system including the Judicial Branch, was over turned by what famous Supreme Court case that established judicial review?
What is the Marbury v Madison
Stanton, Anthony and other key women published this, simiar to the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments
The Neutrality Proclamation from President Washington was issued when the United States would not take the side of either of these two nations.
What is France and England
What is Tobacco
Lincoln Pocket-Vetoed this Radical Republican bill in opposition
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
This failed piece of legislation was intended to block slavery's expansion into the Mexican cession. It was proposed by a Pennsylvania representative and NEVER passed.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
Women were often leading advocates of this movement seeking to ban alcohol.
Temperance
President Jackson and Van Buren both ignored the issue of admitting this territory (hint from Mexico) due to the slavery issue.
What is Texas
The results of this conflict led to the change of using Indentured Servants and to the need for African Slaves as labor in the South.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
This amendment solidified that all citizens should be treated equally under the law
What is the 14th amendment
John Quincy Adams convinced congress to pass this most controversial piece of legislation and then left it to Jackson to deal with. South Carolina threatened to secede as a result.
What is the Tariff of Abominations or Tariff of 1828
Lincoln stated to this woman, "So you're the little lady who started this war." Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 ending the Revolutionary War, settled this river as the western boundary of the young United states.
What is the Mississippi
This economic system saw slaves sold to the new world, molasses and other foodstuff sold to Europe, and weapons and alcohol sold to African smugglers.
What is the Triangular Trade System
President Johnson faced impeachment when he fired this former Lincoln secretary breaking congressional law.
Who is Edwin Stanton
Senator Douglas pushed for passage of this legislation which would allow for the use of popular sovereignty in determining the use of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
This famous former slave led many slaves including her own parents to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
This treaty ended the Mexican American War, and granted territory-todays Southwest-to the United States
Treaty of Guadelupe Hildago
Under the Compromise of 1850, CA was admitted as a free state, TX was compensated for loss of land, and this was passed to appease the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
Following the election of 1876, in agreeing to elect northern candidate Rutherford B. Hayes, the South was granted the removal of what?
What are federal troops
This legislation encouraged many people to move out West after the Civil War and to start farms.
What is the Homestead Act