Era of Good Feelings
Known as the "Father of the Constitution" who proposed the 3/5ths Compromise, he served as the 4th U.S. President during the War of 1812.
Who was James Madison?
This term describes the historic period in the United States before the Civil War, spanning roughly from 1815 to 1861.
What is the Antebellum Period?
As part of the Compromise of 1850, this state was admitted to the Union as a free state.
What is California?
The 1854 law that organized two western territories and reopened the debate over slavery by establishing popular sovereignty was called this.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This term describes the widespread 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Presided over by James Monroe, this era was characterized by low political tension and high national pride following the War of 1812.
What is the "Era of Good Feelings"?
This secret network of routes, safe houses, and guides helped enslaved individuals escape bondage into Northern free states or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery was banned north of this latitude line within the Louisiana Territory.
What is 36°30′ (the 36°30′ parallel)?
This political principle allowed voters within a territory to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Signed in 1830, this law authorized the federal government to negotiate land exchanges with Native tribes east of the Mississippi River
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A Doctrine that was a warning to European powers, Telling them that the Western Hemisphere closed to future European colonies.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This August 1831 uprising in Southampton County, Virginia, led by an enslaved preacher, resulted in over 50 white deaths and stricter slave codes.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This compromise made the slave trade illegal in Washington D.C, but Slavery was still allowed
What is Compromise of 1850?
A radical abolitionist who believed in using violence to end slavery in the United States.
Who is John Brown?
This forced removal of Native nations to modern-day Oklahoma resulted in thousands of deaths and severe suffering.
What is the Trail of Tears?
In 1816-1821, 3 States were added as Free States.
What is Maine, Indiana, & Maine?
State-level legal statutes designed to restrict the movement, rights, and literacy of enslaved African Americans were known by this term.
What are Slave Codes?
This landmark 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that Black people were not citizens and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This conflict was between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces, and was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
South Carolina threatened to cancel federal tariffs during this 1832–1833 political crisis, prompting Jackson to enforce federal authority.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This Treaty acquired Florida from Spain by settling western border disputes.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)?
This abolitionist leader and former enslaved person published an influential autobiography and advocated alongside Sojourner Truth for immediate emancipation.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, this controversial act forced citizens in free states to assist in capturing and returning escaped enslaved individuals.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Radical abolitionist John Brown led an 1859 raid on a federal armory in this town in an attempt to trigger an armed uprising.
What is Harper's Ferry Raid?
Voting rights expanded under Jacksonian Democracy in the early 1830s by eliminating this specific requirement for white male voters.
What is property ownership?