Presidential Precedents
George Washington created this group of advisers to provide expertise in different areas of government
What is the Cabinet?
This reform movement encouraged Americans to stop drinking alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
The Missouri Compromise attempted to preserve this balance in Congress.
What is the balance between free and slave states?
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were important military commanders for this side.
What was the Confederacy?
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Washington established this foreign-policy precedent by refusing to take sides in European conflicts.
What is neutrality?
Jacksonian Democracy increased political participation primarily among this group.
Who were white men?
This idea allowed settlers in a territory to vote on whether slavery would be permitted.
What is popular sovereignty?
The North possessed more factories, a larger population and a more extensive system of these.
What were railroads?
This federal agency provided education, food, medical care, employment assistance and legal support to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This controversial purchase doubled the size of the United States and expanded presidential power.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The Declaration of Sentiments, presented at this 1848 convention, demanded greater rights for women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
John Brown attempted to seize weapons at this federal arsenal to begin an uprising against slavery.
What is Harpers Ferry?
Union victory here gave the North control of the Mississippi River and divided the Confederacy.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This organization used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from exercising their new rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
These laws restricted criticism of the federal government and made political participation harder for immigrants.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Henry Clay’s economic plan called for protective tariffs, a national bank and federally funded transportation projects.
What is the American System?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision and John Brown’s raid all had this effect on the nation.
What is increasing sectional tension or pushing the nation closer to civil war?
Union forces destroyed this important Southern transportation and railroad center during Sherman’s campaign.
What is Atlanta?
During Congressional Reconstruction, the South was divided into these to enforce federal requirements and protect African American rights.
What were military districts?
Issued in 1823, this policy warned European nations against further interference in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This president used the Mexican-American War and territorial expansion to help the United States stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Who was James K. Polk?
**Explain the connection between westward expansion and the growing sectional conflict over slavery.**
Answer should sound like:
New western territories forced the country to decide whether slavery would expand. These debates increased conflict between the North and South and contributed to secession and the Civil War.
Enslaved people and free abolitionists such as Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown shared this goal.
The Compromise connected to this disputed presidential election removed federal troops from the South and effectively ended Reconstruction.
What is the Election of 1876?