First 5
List the 4 Precedents of George Washington's presidency.
What are the cabinet, two-terms, neutrality, and presidential authority to enforce laws?
This was Henry Clay's plan to promote economic growth and reduce sectional tensions by forcing the North, South, and West to cooperate economically.
What is the American System?
The belief that it was God's plan for the US to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Their advantages when entering the Civil War included extensive railroads and telegraph lines, manufacturing, and a large population.
What was the Union?
Presidential Reconstruction required only 10% of the citizens of states that seceded to swear an oath of loyalty and ratify the 13th Amendment to rejoin the Union, while this plan required 50% of citizens to take the oath and the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What was Congressional Reconstruction?
The action that Thomas Jefferson took as president that stood in contrast to his views as a Democratic-republican and Strict Constructionist.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Jackson did this because he did not believe the constitution allowed the national bank to opporate.
Veto or "killing" the national bank renewal?
This president campaigned on 54'40" or fight, but settled for 49", annexed Oregon and Texas, and led the US into the Mexican War.
Who was James K. Polk, the Manifest Destiny President?
This first battle fo the Civil War took place when Confederate soldiers opened fire at a fort in South Carolina.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
These are the Reconstruction Amendments. (I also want what they did)
What were the 13th, ending slavery (except for punishment of a crime), the 14th granting citizenship and equal rights for freed slaves, and the 15th allowing suffrage for black males.
A foreign policy statement intended to assert America's newfound confidence and strength, establish American dominance in the Western Hemisphere, and protect its borders.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Loyalty to one's region or section of the country over the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This was the first of the compromises on whether new states could be admitted to the US as free or slave states. It made the 36 30 line as the northern boarder for slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Lincoln did this by allowing the Union Army to arrest and detain people without trial in order to stop dissent and maintain order, especially in the border states.
What was the suspension of habeas corpus?
These are the 3 examples of how Southern states resisted reconstruction.
What are Blake Codes, Jim Crow Laws, and the KKK?
This happened in exchange for the Democratic-Republicans to allow the creation of the National Bank.
What was moving the capital to Washington DC?
The 1828 Tariffs of Abomination that hurt the southern economy led to this because states like South Carolina felt they encroached on their states' rights. So they said the would either reject the tariffs or secede.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
The Kansas-Nebraska Acts use of this led to people from other states and territories to flood Kansas ahead of the vote on slavery. Violence broke out earning the nickname "Bleeding Kansas".
What is popular sovereignty?
While we think of this as Lincoln freeing the slaves, it actually did not free anyone, it made a legal loophole so runaway slaves could join the military in the north instead of returning them to their "owners" as the Fugitive Slave Act required.
What was the emancipation proclamation?
The Radical Republicans in Congress wanted this because he was standing in the way of reconstruction by vetoing Republican laws including the 14th and 15th amendments.
What was the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
John Adams signed this to silence opposition from Democratic-Republicans over how Adams was handling the XYZ Affair and his Quasi war with France.
What was the Sedition Act?
The temperance movement, school reform, abolition, women's suffrage, and abolition were all encouraged and spread through this.
What was the 2nd Great Awakening?
This Supreme Court Case from 1857 that ruled Congress had no power to ban slavery in the territories because slaves were "property" which is protected in the Constitution.
What was Scott v Sandford?
This battle was key for completing Scott's Anaconda Plan.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
Southern Democrats were desperate to end Reconstruction so they agreed to let Rutherford B. Hayes become president is Congress would remove federal troops from the south. Without the troops to enforce Reconstruction, it ended and the era of Jim Crow began.
What was the Compromise of 1877?