Jacksonian America
America's Economic Revolution
The Impending Crisis
The Civil War
Reconstruction
100
Political agreement that prohibited slavery north of the 36-30 parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
The "peculiar institution."
What is slavery?
100
Belief that God ordained that white America should spread from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
President Lincoln's effort to suppress dissent in the state of Maryland.
What is the temporary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus?
100
The constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
Supreme Court decision that ruled against a state's efforts to tax the National Bank.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
200
Infrastructure project that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean (via the Hudson River).
What is the Erie Canal?
200
Supreme Court decision that denied the citizenship rights of blacks and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
Military concept used by General Sherman during his "March to the Sea."
What is "total war"?
200
Southern insult leveled at southerners that joined the Republican Party after the Civil War.
What is a scalawag?
300
Concept that a state can make void a federal law within its borders if the state deems the law unconstitutional.
What is nullification?
300
Intellectual reform movement of the 1830s and 40s, of which Thoreau and Emerson were proponents.
What is Transcendentalism?
300
Outbreak of violence in the west resulting from popular sovereignty (and the Kansas-Nebraska Act).
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
300
Executive order issued by President Lincoln that freed slaves in areas in a state of open rebellion.
Who is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The federal agency that supplied food, clothing, education, job training, and medical assistance to former slaves and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Name Jacksonian Democrats gave to the controversial election of 1824.
What is the "Corrupt Bargain"?
400
Famous textile factory town in New England.
What is Lowell, Massachusetts?
400
Most controversial provision of the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
400
Three-day battle that marked a major turning point in the war.
What is Gettysburg?
400
The law that President Johnson violated, resulting in his impeachment.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
500
Andrew Jackson's economic executive order that preceded the Panic of 1837.
What is the "Specie Circular"?
500
First women's suffrage convention in American history.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)?
500
The political philosophy that opposed slavery because of its detrimental impact on white labor.
What is Free-Soil?
500
Outbreak of violence in response to the Union Draft Law of 1863.
What are the NYC Draft Riots?
500
The name of the proposed law that Radical Republicans used to try and wrest control of Reconstruction from President Lincoln.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
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