Early Republic
This encouraged America to remain neutral in foreign affairs and warned against the dangers of political parties.
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
This treaty resulted in the Mexican Cession that would later become California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This general rejected Lincolns offer to command the US army and instead sided with the Confederacy as its general.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This group emerged during Reconstruction as a political force that would use violence and intimidation to resist racial equality in the South.
What is the KKK?
Despite holding a strict interpretation of the Constitution, President Jefferson completed this even though he believed it was unconstitutional.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This man attacked a Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry and subsequently became known as a martyr in northern states and a terrorist in southern states.
Who is John Brown?
This side of the conflict held a huge economic advantage during the war because of its industrial economy.
What is the North/Union?
The ratification of the 13th amendment was demanded following the end of the Civil War. It finally accomplished what goal?
What is ended slavery in America?
This provided suffrage for African Americans. Later this was resisted by Black Codes.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This war led by James Madison produced an increase in nationalism as Americans began to develop a national identity.
What is the War of 1812?
This supreme court decision ruled that slaves are not citizens and provided constitutional backing for the institution of slavery in federal territories.
What is Scot v. Sanford?
This battle was the deadliest single day of the Civil War.
What is the battle of Antietam?
This amendment overturned the Supreme Court ruling in the Scot v Sanford case by declaring former slaves to be citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This attempt at popular sovereignty allowed citizens to vote on issues directly. This experiment failed because it led to violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
To protect himself from critics, John Adams passed the Sedition Acts which in turn violated this right of American citizens.
What is 1st amendment right to free speech and press.
The purpose of this compromise was to maintain balance of free states and slave states in the senate.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
President Lincoln used this to change the Civil War into a war about slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation/Gettysburg Address?
This happened in April 1865, a few days after the Civil War ended, and it changed the path of Reconstruction.
What is the assassination of Abe Lincoln?
This event was held in 1848, and was the first public conference-type event about women's rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This was the plan to connect American products in the North to American consumers in the South and the West.
What is the American System?
The Kansas-Nebraska act showed this idea to be a failure because pro-slave and anti-slave groups began fighting that is called "Bleeding Kansas".
What is popular-sovereignty?
In this speech, Lincoln gave northern soldiers a moral motive for fighting by making the wars goal to end slavery in America.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The election of 1876, and the resulting compromise ended the reconstruction era when Rutherford Hayes agreed to remove military rule from the south. What was the compromise called?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The 15th Amendment expanded suffrage to African American men, but those rights were limited by this.
What are Black Codes?