Western Expansion
This saw Andrew Jackson using federal money to move all Native Americans to the Great Plains.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
This 1848 event saw women come together to push for Women’s rights.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This banned slavery over the 36’30’ line, but allowed it underneath it.
What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This was the inciting incident of the Civil War.
What was the Election of 1860?
This provided aid to African Americans. This aid included money for education, hospitals, social services, churches, and help with labor contracts and discrimination cases.
What was the Freedman’s Bureau Act?
This brought about by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo gave the US land that includes California, New Mexico, and Arizona.
What was the Mexican Cession?
What was the American System?
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this denied Jury trials to runaway slaves and denied the right to testify on one’s behalf for them. People could be convicted for helping these runaways.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Issued after the Union’s victory at Antietam this preliminary decree stated that if the states in rebellion did not return to the Union by the beginning of 1863 freedom would be granted to the slaves within those states.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
These were Northerners who came to the South in search for opportunities after the war.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
Acquired from Great Britain through a Treaty with claim from Lewis and Clark’s exploration.
What was the Oregon Territory?
Spurred on by the Second Great Awakening this sought to reduce or eliminate Alcohol consumption.
What was Temperance Reform?
This political group opposed the extension of slavery into territories.
What was the Free-Soil Party?
This group African American men fought for the Union and participated in military action such as the attack on Fort Wagner.
Who were the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
This sees landowners allowing a person or family to farm on a small plot of land, where the farmers kept little of their profits and the owners got a large sum of the farmers’ profits.
What is Sharecropping?
This saw South Carolina try to declare the protective tariff null and void.
What was the Nullification Crisis of the 1830s?
This workplace saw the creation of the first union of working women.
What was the Lowell Mills of Massachusetts?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a moral problem, not just a political one.
What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This cut a wide path of destruction throughout the South including the takeover of Atlanta and Savannah. Further destruction ensued in South Carolina.
What was Sherman’s March to the Sea?
This protected the rights of African Americans to vote. It reinforced the 15th amendment and thus made the acts of the Ku Klux Klan illegal.
What was the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1870?
The Federal government encouraged westward expansion by giving settlers 160 acres of land with this.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
He was a former slave who pushed for Abolition.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This case ruled that slaves do not have rights, that they have no claim to freedom, and that Congress cannot forbid slavery in territories which thus means that the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford 1857?
This is where the Confederate military surrendered to the Union.
Where was Appomattox Court House?
This saw the Democrats agreeing to not block the election of Rutherford B. Hayes if Federal troops were removed from the South. This effectively ended Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?