First Five Presidents
This doubled the size of the nation during Jefferson's presidency while also expanding presidential power.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Expanded between 1824 and 1828, this allowed Andrew Jackson to win the Election of 1828 due to his support from the "common man"
What is suffrage or the right to vote?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Lincoln issued this after the Battle of Antietam. It freed slaves in the states in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment freed the slaves.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Is Mr. Connolly left handed or right handed?
Right handed
The two-term limit and establishing the cabinet are two examples of these established by George Washington.
What are precedents?
The Trail of Tears and the relocation of the Southeast American Indians to Oklahoma are all part of this 1830's act.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Belief in the 1800s that it was American's God given right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Union general who used scorched-earth tactics and burned Atlanta to the ground before marching to the sea.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Government organization that attempted to help the newly freed slaves after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
How many children does Mr. Connolly have?
0
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The social movement drawing attention to the evils of alcohol.
What is temperance?
Court case that made slavery constitutional. Said that slaves cannot sue for their freedom because they are property.
What is Scott v. Sanford?
What is Vicksburg?
Terrorist group meant to restrict movement and activities of newly freed slaves especially in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
How tall is Mr. Connolly?
6'
War fought when James Madison was president. The British burned the White House and the Treaty of Ghent ended it.
What is the War of 1812?
What is the American System?
Abolitionist who murdered pro-slavery people in Kansas before attempting to start a slave revolution after raiding the arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
What is habeas corpus?
The impeachment of this president led the way for Radical Reconstruction.
Mr. Connolly's favorite food.
What is pizza?
Unpopular acts under John Adams which cost him re-election. Dealt with immigrants and free speech.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Drama created when South Carolina refused to enforce the "tariff of abominations" which led to the resignation of Jackson's vice president. Federal troops were almost sent in to enforce the law.
What is Nullification Crisis?
What is popular sovereignty?
Lincoln gave his plan about the future union after the war that stressed forgiveness in this speech.
What is the Gettysburg Address or Second Inaugural Address?
Federal troops leaving the occupied South with the Compromise of 1877 marked the end of this.
What is Reconstruction?
What color are Mr. Connolly's eyes?
Grey