SSUSH6
Establishing a cabinet, being called "Mr. President", and serving a minimum of two terms in office were three ____________ set by George Washington as the first President.
precedent
South Carolina believed the federal government had overstepped its authority by passing a protective tariff, when that power (they thought) should be left to the states. John C. Calhoun agreed with SC.
Nullification Crisis
The belief that God was on the side of American Expansion to East to West Coast.
Manifest Destiny
Battle from Atlanta to Savannah. Every city, town, was burned. What was this even called?
Shermans March to the Sea
Organization that helped blacks, poor whites, and native americans with food, education, housing etc
Freedman bureau
This president passed the unpopular Alien & Sedition acts, which restricted people speaking out against the government and allowed him to deport foreigners.
John Adams
A creation of an American trading economy was the lasting result of Henry Clay's _____________.
Transportation, Central Bank, Tariffs
American System
He was captured after his failed attempt to cause a slave uprising in Harper's Ferry, VA.
John Brown
Lincoln's main objective was always to save...
the union
What amendments were created during reconstruction?
Daily double: tell what all 3 did
13th, 14th, 15th
abolished slaves, citizenship, all MEN can vote
Jefferson purchased this land from a French Leader which doubled the size of America.
Louisiana Purchase
· The Second Bank of the United States expires
· Expansion of Male Suffrage(common Man)
· Manifest Destiny
· Spoils System
All of these describe...
Jacksonian Democracy
This law, which allowed territories to decide the fate of slavery based on popular sovereignty, unintentionally had the effect of increasing tensions between pro-slavery and antislavery forces as they rushed west and had violent clashes over control of territory. It was the
Kansas-Nebraska Act
President Lincoln suspended this early in the Civil War and it limited the rights of certain U.S. citizens.
habeas corpus
Black Codes
After the War of 1812, an increase in _____ contributed to transportation improvements across the United States.
nationalism
William Lloyd Garrison and his newspaper, The Liberator, are associated with this movement...
Abolitionist Movement
This war led to greater sectionalism in the United States legislature because there was tension over whether new territories would have slavery.
Mexican-American War
Confederate forces began firing on the Union-held fort on April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m. and continued for 33 straight hours. This marked the beginning of the Civil War.
battle of Fort Sumter
An organization that terrorized black families and northern whites with intimidation and brutality.
Ku Klux Klan
This document upheld George Washington's policy of avoiding European entanglements and guided the U.S. foreign policy for many years.
Monroe Doctrine
He led an unsuccessful slave revolt in Virginia in the 1830s.
Nat Turner
In this Supreme Court case the courts ruled: (1) A slave is not a citizen but property of the slave owner (2) Slaves had no claim to freedom and (3) slaves could not sue in court
Dred Scott case
· Took place on September 17, 1862
· Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced each other
· The Confederate offensive was stopped
· Was the bloodiest day of the Civil War
Describes what battle?
Battle of Antietam
Name two types of reconstruction
Daily double: state facts about each
Presidential and Congressional
Presidential: First, they had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. Second, states had to repudiate secession. Third, when ten percent of the voters from 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the United States, that southern state would be restored to the Union.