This amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment
100
This president is associated with revolutionizing American democracy through increased voter participation and the spoils system.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
These laws limiting the freedom and economic opportunities of African Americans were prohibited by the 14th Amendment.
What are the Black Codes?
100
This lady advocated for changes to the United States prison system and helped created asylums for the mentally ill.
What is Dorothea Dix?
100
49ers were people who flocked to this state during its 1849 Gold Rush.
What is California?
200
Abolishes slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
200
This policy regulated slavery in the territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase by prohibiting it north of the 36°30′ parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
This is the name for the enduring conflict between pro- and anti-slavery following the Kansas-Nebraska Acts.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led this first women's rights convention in upstate New York.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
200
He was president for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
300
These THREE transportation developments greatly increased migration and trade with the West.
What are roads, railroads, and canals?
300
This law was included in the Compromise of 1850 and greatly empowered Southern slave owners to recapture slaves who had fled to the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
This William Lloyd Garrison newspaper demanded the immediate end to slavery and served as a beacon for the abolitionist movement
What is the Liberator?
300
This law took away 80% of the Indian lands by requiring them to register for land as individuals rather than as tribes
What is the Dawes Act?
400
Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post–Civil War issues.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
400
This semi-secret political party was built upon the idea of nativism and strongly opposed Irish immigration
What is the Know Nothing Party?
400
This controversial deal resulted in the military's withdrawal from the south and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes winning the presidency.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
400
Education reform was assisted by the McGuffey Readers and this Massachusetts reformer
Who is Horace Mann?
400
This historian wrote a famous thesis on the effect of the frontier on the United States. He thought the west provided a safety valve by giving the poor an area to move to and get a new start.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
500
This amendment reinforces the principle of federalism by stating that the federal government possesses only those powers delegated to it by the states or the people through the Constitution.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
500
The system of manufacturing products with interchangeable parts and Henry Clay's program of internal improvements share this common name.
What is the American System?
500
This reconstruction plan offered a stricter alternative to Lincoln's proposal and required at least 50% of southern voters to take oaths of loyalty.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
500
Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman were all participants of this intellectual movement the focused on the inherent goodness of people and nature.
What is transcendentalism?
500
In 1890 this battle (or massacre) marked the end of major Native American resistance to Federal Troops.