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Miscellanious
100
The first of the Reconstruction Amendments. Freed All slaves and prohibited slavery.
What is The Thirteenth Amendment
100
It stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention.
What is The Monroe Doctrine
100
A movement to end slavery
What is Abolitionism?
100
Explored the new Louisiana territory
Who are Lewis and Clark
100
a writ, or legal action, through which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention
What is Habeus Corpus?
200
Prohibits The United States from denying a citizen's the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
What is The Fifteenth Amendment
200
It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
What is The Missouri Compromise of 1820
200
the right of women to vote and to run for office.
What is Women's Suffrage
200
Invented the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney
200
a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865-1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
300
Made everyone born or naturalized in the U.S. Citizens of the United States.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment
300
an intricate package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848).
What is The Compromise of 1850
300
Loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than the nation as a whole.
What is Sectionalism
300
Presented the Declaration of Sentiments at the First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton
300
advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
400
political powers reserved for the U.S. state governments rather than the federal government
What are State's Rights?
400
a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.
What is The Nullification Crisis
400
nationalism among the people of the United States.
What is American Nationalism
400
The First Women to act publicly in the social reform movements
Who are the Grimke Sisters
400
unofficial laws put in place in the United States with the effect of limiting the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks.
What are the Black Codes
500
a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
500
would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future
What is the Wilmot Proviso
500
The political philosophy of United States politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters
What is the Jacksonian Democracy
500
The union general that used scorched earth policies during the civil war.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman
500
After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory, and incisive antislavery writing.
Who is Frederick Douglass
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