Westward Expansion & Native American Removal
This 1838–1839 forced relocation of the Cherokee to present-day Oklahoma resulted in thousands of deaths along the route.
What is the Trail of Tears?
He served as the President of the United States during the Civil War, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and delivering the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He became President following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Formulated by General Winfield Scott, this military strategy aimed to defeat the Confederacy by blockading Southern ports and capturing the Mississippi River to squeeze the South economically.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This 1845 annexation brought a newly independent republic into the U.S. as a slave state, escalating border disputes with Mexico.
What is the Annexation of Texas?
He served as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Section 3 of this post-Civil War constitutional amendment disqualified former federal or state officials from holding office if they engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This political party was formed in 1854 primarily to oppose the expansion of slavery into the Western territories.
What is the Republican Party?
Ignited by a border dispute over the Annexation of Texas and ending with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, this 1846–1848 conflict resulted in Mexico ceding nearly half its territory to the United States.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Confederate general earned his famous nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run before being killed by friendly fire in 1863.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
While the President favored a lenient approach focused on rapid restoration, Radical Republicans in Congress insisted on strict harsh terms and military enforcement, leading to these two distinct phases of post-Civil War rebuilding.
What are Presidential Reconstruction and Congressional (or Radical) Reconstruction?
This presidential doctrine issued in 1823 warned European powers against further colonization or intervention in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1853 purchase of land in present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico was secured to build a southern transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Promoted to lead all Union armies in 1864, this general devised the overall strategic plan to defeat the Confederacy and later became the 18th U.S. President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Divided into five military districts, the South was placed under army governance by these 1867 congressional acts.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
Founded in 1865 by Confederate veterans, this secret vigilante organization used violence and intimidation to undermine Reconstruction and suppress newly freed African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan? (or the KKK)
This Supreme Court case ruled that the Cherokee Nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force, though Andrew Jackson refused to enforce it.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Before commanding the Army of Northern Virginia, this Confederate general was offered field command of the Union Army by Abraham Lincoln but declined to remain loyal to his home state.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
President Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached in 1868 after attempting to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, violating this federal law passed by Congress to restrict presidential removal power.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
Characterized by expanded white male suffrage, the elimination of property requirements for voting, and the rise of the "common man" in American politics, this political movement of the 1820s and 1830s was named after the 7th U.S. President.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?