Age of Jackson
The practice of giving government jobs to political supporters.
What is the spoils system?
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand west to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What were the Union and Confederacy?
The Union was the North; the Confederacy was the South.
The period of rebuilding the South and integrating freed slaves.
What was Reconstruction?
She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A forced march of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma in 1838.
What was the Trail of Tears?
To seek wealth, new opportunities, and land.
Why did people move west during the Gold Rush?
Name one cause of the Civil War.
Slavery, states’ rights, and economic differences.
Laws passed to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans.
What were Black Codes?
Who won the Civil War?
The Union (North) won the Civil War.
How did Jackson feel about the national bank? Support or Opposed?
He opposed it, believing it favored the wealthy elite.
A historic route pioneers used to migrate to Oregon Territory.
What was the Oregon Trail?
A law to maintain balance by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
It abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He was the 16th president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A conflict over tariffs and states' rights, mainly with South Carolina.
What was the Nullification Crisis about?
It was annexed in 1845 after gaining independence from Mexico.
What is Texas?
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
To free slaves in Confederate states and change the war’s focus.
An organization that helped freed slaves with education and jobs.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The final surrender of Confederate forces happened there in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Why was Jackson called “King Andrew I”?
Because he used his power strongly, vetoed often, and acted like a monarch.
It gave the U.S. land including California and the Southwest.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
How did slavery divide the North and South?
The North opposed it, the South depended on it.
How did Reconstruction end?
Federal troops were removed from the South.
They wanted to punish the South and protect rights of freedmen.
Who were the Radical Republicans?