Who Am I?
Who was an American statesman and lawyer that served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865, and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, and bolstering the federal government?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
What political thought supports loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole?
What is Sectionalism?
Who was the longest reigning chief justice that supported the judiciary review and presided over cases from Marbury v Madison to Dred Scott v Sanford?
Who was Chief Justice John Marshall?
What act required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
What war was fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America?
What was the Civil War?
Who was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837, and sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union?
Who was Andrew Jackson?
What is the action or act called to end a system, practice, or institution (ex: ending slavery)?
What is abolition?
What is the review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act?
What is judicial review?
Which executive order declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free?"
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
What event was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government?
What was the Trail of Tears?
Who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-1800s, was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments?
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
What political thought is the identification with one's own nation and support for its interests?
What is Nationalism?
What was the case where the Court held that the US Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them?
What was the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
Which law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands?
What was the Indian Removal Act?
What was the first women's rights convention that advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman"?
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
Who was an American statesman, politician, lawyer, banker, and economist that was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, a strict Federalist, and the first Secretary of Treasury?
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
Which manifesto described women's grievances and demands, and called on women to fight for their constitutionally guaranteed right to equality as U.S. citizens?
What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
Which case ruled that it had no original jurisdiction in the matter, as the Cherokees were a dependent nation, with a relationship to the United States like that of a "ward to its guardian?"
What was Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
Which congressional action admitted Maine to the United States as a free state, simultaneously with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the US Senate?
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom due to naval interference by the latter held in the early 19th century?
What was the War of 1812?
Who led a rebellion of black slaves in 1831 to protest and liberate slaves in Virginia?
Who was Nat Turner?
Which political thought expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, favored expansionism and Manifest Destiny, and restructured a number of federal institutions?
What was Jacksonian Democracy?
Which court case declared that the Cherokee Nation was a separate political entity and could not be regulated by the state, with its license law was unconstitutional?
What was Worcester v. Georiga?
Which congressional act abolished slavery and ended indentured servitude within the nation?
What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
What war was the United States involved in over the annexation of Texas?
What was the Mexican-American War?