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Was a document created in 1823 that opposed European involvement in the Americas while also limiting American involvement outside of the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
A former general from the War of 1812 and President of the United States; established the Second National Bank of the United States.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Was where the last battle of the Civil War, fought on April 8th, 1865, resulting in the defeat of General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army.
What is Appomattox Court House?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Name at least one Native American tribe that was forced to leave their homes in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida on the Trail of Tears.
Cherokees, Chickasaws, Creek, Choctaws, Seminole
Was a compromise that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state; admitted Massachusetts to the Union as a free state; established the 36' 30" line as the division between potential territories- north of the line being free states, south of it being slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Written by a white, abolitionist writer, Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852- was a fictional tall detailing the brutality of slavery to a largely northern audience.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Was the 16th President of the United States elected in 1860; his presidency would be marked by the beginning of the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Was a territory during the late 1850s whose decision to apply for statehood began violent break outs between slave owners and abolitionists.
What is Kansas?
Was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that the U.S. Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for African Americans- free men or slave.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Were the first "pop stars" of American culture; were musical acts that toured the country during the 1840s and 1850s; often featured black face and musical numbers that were degrading of slaves.
What are Minstrel Shows?
Written during the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 advocating for equality for women- based off the Declaration of Independence.
What is Declaration of Sentiments?
Was a Virginian general who had graduated from west Point- took command of the Confederate Army once his state of Virginia seceded from the Union.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
A territory originally part of Mexico, fought for its independence and was wrote to the United States to ask for annexation in the late 1840s, eventually leading to the Mexican American War.
What is Texas?
An attack on the U.S. military fort in Sumter, North Carolina, in April of 1861 after the secession of multiple southern states; it marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
Was a compromise proposed by Henry Clay that admitted California to the Union as a free state; continued slavery but outlawed the slave trade in Washington, D.C.; popular sovereignty for future territories; enacted the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the 1850 Compromise?
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What is the Gettysburg Address?
Participated in Bleeding Kansas in the mid 1850s; in 1858, he and a group of young abolitionists attacked Harper's Ferry, VA., in attempt to lead to a slave revolt, however this attack was a failure; this attack made him a martyr in the north but a terrorist in the south.
Who is John Brown?
Was a free state that was added to the Union under the Missouri Compromise to ensure the balance between North, abolitionist, and South, pro-slavery, continued.
What is Massachusetts?
Was a war between the United States and Mexico that began with the annexation of Texas into the Union in 1846; it resulted in American victory, the addition of modern day states of Texas, California, Arizona and Nevada, thus completing Manifest Destiny.
What is the Mexican American War?
Was an act passed as part of the 1850 Compromise that made any northerner required by law to return a runaway slave to their masters despite slavery being illegal in the person's state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Was a document written in 1861, states that the southern state was seceding from the Union in order to preserve slavery.
What is Mississippi Declaration of Immediate Causes of Secession?
Was an inventor int he early the 1790s who invented the cotton gin that would go on to expand slavery into the deep south, forever changing the nature of slavery.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The only 'southern' state that did not secede from the Union due to Lincoln moving troops into the state to prevent its secession.
What is Maryland?
The most northern battle of the Civil War from July 1-3, 1863; is the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, marking a decisive northern victory that turned the tied of the war.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
Was a decree made by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"; this did not free slaves in the north- only in the south; this did prevent already abolitionist England from siding with the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?