Early Republic
His response to the Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new federal government could enforce its laws.
George Washington
This issue increasingly divided the North and South during the 1850s, especially when new western territories were organized.
The expansion of slavery
The Confederate attack on this South Carolina fort marked the beginning of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
This organization provided services such as education and assistance with labor contracts to formerly enslaved people.
Freedmen's Bureau
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
Marbury v Madison
Father of the American Navy
These controversial laws passed under John Adams restricted criticism of the federal government.
This idea allowed settlers in a territory to vote on whether slavery would be permitted.
Popular sovereignty
Compared with the Confederacy, the Union had greater advantages in population, industry, and this transportation system.
Railroads
These Southern laws attempted to restrict the freedom and opportunities of Black Americans after slavery ended.
Black Codes (Jim Crow)
This Supreme Court decision denied Black citizenship and ruled that Congress could not restrict slavery in the territories in the way it had attempted.
Dred Scott v Sandford
This 1803 purchase from France approximately doubled the size of the United States.
Party which supporting the preservation and expansion of slavery prior to the Civil War
The Democratic Party
Lincoln issued this document in 1863, making the destruction of slavery in areas in rebellion an explicit Union war goal.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Name the three Reconstruction Amendments in order and what each accomplished.
The 13th—abolished slavery; 14th—citizenship/equal protection; and 15th—protected voting rights regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
This Supreme Court case weakened the federal government's ability to prosecute certain violations of Black civil rights during Reconstruction.
United States v Cruikshank
War that ended in 1848 and concluded in the annexation of Texas, New Mexico, California, and other Western states
The Mexican-American War
His election in 1860 convinced several Southern states that their political power and the future of slavery were threatened.
Abraham Lincoln
This 1863 battle stopped a major Confederate invasion of the North and became one of the war's most important Union victories.
Gettysburg
In this agricultural system, farmers worked another person's land for a portion of the crop and could become trapped in debt.
Sharecropping
This term describes the period of especially severe racial repression following Reconstruction and the expansion of Jim Crow.
Nadir
Third President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
A1854 law used popular sovereignty in this state and helped produce violent sectional conflict.
Kansas
At this Virginia location in April 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant.
Appomattox Court House
These laws gave Grant's administration greater federal power to combat voter intimidation and organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan
Enforcement Acts
Identify the group: one faced allotment and boarding-school assimilation; one faced railroad labor followed by exclusion; one faced land loss despite citizenship rights.
Native Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Hispanic Americans?