Jefferson and Jackson Administrations
This was the nickname given to Jackson by the Whig Party who was formed to oppose him
What is King Andy?
Name of forced labor
Slavery
This invention radically transformed the South's economy.
What is the cotton gin?
This part of the country was debated about regarding whether it would allow slavery
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
This resulted in the doubling of the United States overnight.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Name for term about God giving Americans the right to colonize from the Atlantic to Pacific
Manifest Destiny
These slaves made up the majority of the work on the plantation
What are the field workers?
This is the idea that the people in a territory could choose whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was the general strategy of the Union, which included gaining control of the Mississippi, blockading the South, and attacking Georgia.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This was how John C. Calhoun and SC reacted to the Tariff of Abominations
What is nullification?
He was a famous white abolitionist who wrote the liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This crop made up 80 percent of US exports by 1860.
What is cotton?
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This faction wanted to punish the South for causing the Civil War.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This law, signed in 1807, cut off US trade with all countries, which shattered the economy.
What is the Embargo Act?
This area refers to the Pacific Northwest and part of British Columbia.
What is the Oregon Country?
The Supreme Court ruled in this case that slaves were not US citizens and could not sue for their rights.
What is the Dred Scott case?
This economic system replaced slavery as the source of labor in the South after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
Andrew Jackson wanted to destroy this federal institution while he was president because he believed it only benefited the wealthy
What was the National Bank?
This treaty ended the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Under this compromise, California was admitted as a free state and that there would be a strong Fugitive Slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
After he was elected in 1876, he took out the last troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?