Andrew Jackson
This is the political party that Andrew Jackson was a part of.
What are the Democrats?
This is the name for the series of safe houses that slaves could take shelter in while traveling from the slave-holding South to the free North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This is the name for the group of reformers that wanted to ban slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
This is the name of the act that said any American in good standing with the government could “rent” 160 acres of land if they filed a claim.
What is the Homestead Act?
The acquisition of this territory was the main spark of the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
This is the name of Andrew Jackson's main political rival, who was the leader of the Whig Party.
Who was Henry Clay?
This is the name of the cruel and overly restrictive laws slaves were forced to live under at threat of imprisonment or physical punishment.
What are slave codes?
This is the reform movement that sought to better conditions for patients with mental health issues.
What is asylum reform?
This is the name of the group of people who got stuck in the Sierra Nevada and turned to cannibalism.
Who was the Donner Party?
This is the name of the compromise that created a line across the middle of the U.S., with states above it being free states and states below it being slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This is the name of the political scandal that Jackson was involved in, back in 1824.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
This is the name of the group of women who were dedicated to creating propaganda about their fathers and grandfathers who fought for the South during the Civil War.
Who were the Daughters of the Confederacy?
This is the name of the reform movement that sought to restrict or ban the limit of alcohol to lower domestic violence rates.
What was the temperance movement?
This is the name of the animal that was hunted nearly to extinction in the 1800s, decimating Native American populations that depended on them.
What are bison?
(Will also accept buffalo)
This is the name of the compromise that deemed popular sovereignty the way new states would decide whether or not slavery would be legal there.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is the name of the path Native Americans were forced onto after being removed from their homes under Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This is the name of the most famous female conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
(Will also accept Sojourner Truth)
The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after which historical document?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the name of the transaction between Thomas Jefferson (USA) and Napoleon (France) that nearly doubled the size of the United States at the time.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the name of the controversial act passed under the Compromise of 1850 that required Northerners to send slaves back to their owners in the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This is the war Jackson fought in that earned him the title of "war hero."
What is the War of 1812?
This is the name of the rapper that said slave ships don't exist because we could find dinosaur bones but no preserved slave ships (he's wrong).
This is the name of the town where a convention was held to discuss women's rights to work, vote, and own property in the 1800s.
What is Seneca Falls?
This is the name of the treaty that resulted in the Mexican Cession.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This is the name of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that denied citizenship to Black people.
What is the Dred Scott Case?