Westward Expansion
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was the group of southern states that seceded from the United States from 1860-1865.
What is the Confederacy?
This was the first phase of returning the Southern states to the Union (1863-1866) and was led by Lincoln and Johnson. Its goal was to reunite quickly and moderately.
What is the Reconstruction Time Period?
Supreme Court Decision - Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty - Jackson ignored it
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This large country is the world's leading producer of bananas.
What is India?
Law passed in 1830, with the support of Andrew Jackson, that forced many Native American nations to move west of the Mississippi River
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This was an agreement that California would be admitted to the Union, the slave trade in the District of Columbia would be restricted, and the Fugitive Slave Law would be enforced.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This was the Union strategy to instigate a complete naval blockade of the Confederacy in order to prevent the export of their major cash crop- cotton- or the import of weapons from Europe.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing and prohibiting slavery. \"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.\"
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legality of racial segregation so long as facilities were \"separate but equal.\"
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This human body part stays the same size from birth, however, our nose and ears never stop growing.
What are eyeballs?
A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A graduate of West Point and commanding General of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Amendment to the United States Constitution stating: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
This is the name of the work of fiction, published in 1852, that dramatically portrayed the lives of slaves in the American South, serving as not only a spark in the abolition movement but as a motivating factor of the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This animal lives in Northern parts of North America and is the largest member of the deer family.
What is a moose?
War between the United States and Mexico (1846-1848), which resulted in the United States winning California and other land in the Southwest
What is the Mexican-American War?
Term coined by the New York Tribune to describe the violence between pro and anti slavery factions between 1854 and 1858. The violence was an attempt to influence whether Kansas would become a free or slave state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This is one of the post-Civil War amendments to the US Constitution that includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was a U.S. Journalist who founded the radical newspaper The Liberator, and fought to abolish slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This city is the oldest capital in the Americas! The people living there were Mayans!
What is Mexico City?
This "System" consisted of three mutually reinforcing parts: a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other "internal improvements" to develop profitable markets for agriculture.
What is the American System created by Henry Clay?
This was the law that mandated the return of runaway slaves, regardless of where in the Union they might be situated at the time of their discovery or capture.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina and the site of the first shots of the American Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Special laws passed by southern state governments immediately after the Civil War. They were designed to control former slaves, and to subvert the intent of the Thirteenth Amendment.
What are the Black Codes?
was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This is Mr. Day's favorite city in the entire world.
What is London?