Presidents (Not Precedence)
This president expanded executive power and authority (defying Congress, many vetoes)
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Separate but equal was the outcome of the Supreme Court Case
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Forces the Native Americans to relocate West of the Mississippi River, giving up their homelands; leads to "Trail of Tears"
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The central debates over slavery's expansion in the acquired lands from the Mexican American War
Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
This election impacted Reconstruction; the election was contested and if Hayes wanted the presidency he had to end Reconstruction
What is the Election of 1876?
What is the policy of neutrality?
This court case established judicial review
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
What do Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison have in common?
What is both were abolitionists?
The theory that America has a divine right to spread Democracy and civilization coast to coast and to acquire new territory across North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
This war established more centralized government power with federal involvement in states' civil rights issues; resulted in Amendments 13, 14, and 15
What is the Civil War?
This president changed his view of slavery from opposing the expansion of slavery to believing in fully abolishing slavery
Who is Abe Lincoln?
This case established that when slavery was legal, slaves were not allowed to sue in a court of law because they were not citizens
What is the Dred Scott vs. Sandford (1857) Supreme Court Case?
Restrictions passed by Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of former slaves
What are Black Codes?
This body of water takes water from Lake Erie/part of Great lakes to the Hudson River, which connects to Atlantic ocean, to the Atlantic Coast
What is Erie Canal?
This group rejected Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan because they felt he was being too easy on the South (too lenient)
Who are Radical Republicans?
This event directly led to the secession of South Carolina and subsequent states in December 1860 through 1861
What is the election of Abe Lincoln?
What did the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 have in common?
The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments modeled after?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Warns European powers not to interfere with (try to colonize) in Western Hemisphere; stay away from U.S. and the lands surrounding US
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Southerners viewed these Northerners as opportunistic people who only wanted to exploit weak economies that resulted from the Civil War/gain wealth and power and create policy that supports freed slaves
What are carpetbaggers?
Who is Andrew Jackson
This foreign policy is a result of the impressment of U.S. soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars and prohibited foreign trade
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
The slavery rebellion that led to stricter slave codes
Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831
Strict constructionist (Democratic Republicans) strongly opposed this land acqusition
Louisiana Purchase
Former slaves had only one economic survival option that kept them in a cycle of poverty
What is sharecropping?