Founding Documents & Government
This document emphasized legislative supremacy and gave Congress no power to tax or control trade.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The U.S. bought this territory from France for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This invention led to a boom in cotton production and increased slavery.
What is the cotton gin
These mills in the North processed cotton into textiles.
What are textile mills?
The war began when Confederates fired on this fort in April 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
The U.S. Constitution created these three branches of government.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
This 1830 law forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1852 novel increased anti-slavery sentiment in the North
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This term describes fast-growing cities and labor changes in the North.
What is the Market Revolution?
Lincoln issued this 1863 order to free slaves in rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This group supported a strong central government and the ratification of the Constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
This conflict began after Texas was annexed by the U.S.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The belief that women should educate children to be good citizens.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This major shift in transportation included roads, canals, and railroads.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
This 1860 Republican won the presidency without being on most Southern ballots.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1800 event marked the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties.
What is the Revolution of 1800?
This 1854 law allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This violent abolitionist led a raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
The economic system where people buy and sell goods rather than making them themselves.
What is a market economy?
This act required Northerners to assist in returning escaped slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
This compromise resolved the nullification crisis of 1832.
What was the lowering of tariffs by Congress to appease South Carolina?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended this war.
What was the Mexican-American War?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that Congress couldn’t ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Southern planters claimed slavery was this rather than a “necessary evil.”
What is a "positive good"?
This Union general’s 1864 march destroyed Southern infrastructure and morale.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?