Jefferson and Jackson Administrations
Antebellum North and South
The Mexican-American War
The Road to Fort Sumter
Civil War and Reconstruction
100
They were Muslim states in North Africa that demanded tribute
What were the Barbary States?
100
This is the idea that free people, not slaves, worked, and that they were entitled to the fruits of their labor.
What is free labor?
100
Texans, after declaring independence from Mexico, were attacked by Santa Anna's army at this mission in San Antonio in 1836.
What is the Alamo?
100
This idea proposed barring slavery from the West.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This resulted in the doubling of the United States overnight.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
This term, coined by John O'Sullivan in a newspaper editorial, expressed that America could and should expand westward to the Pacific coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
He supported Manifest Destiny, the annexation of Texas, and acquisition of the Oregon Territory from Great Britain.
Who is President Polk?
200
This is the idea that the people in a territory could choose whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
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?
300
The Tariff of Abominations centered around this idea that states do not have to follow federal law.
What is nullification?
300
This allowed the North to economically develop compared to the South.
What is industrialization?
300
Congress declared war in 1846 after this "planned" incident.
What is a clash between the Mexican patrol and American soldiers on contested borderland?
300
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
This faction wanted to punish the South for causing the Civil War.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
400
This law, signed in 1807, cut off US trade with all countries, which shattered the economy.
What is the Embargo Act?
400
This area refers to the Pacific Northwest and part of British Columbia.
What is the Oregon Country?
400
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War, and gave the US the northern third of Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
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?
400
This economic system replaced slavery as the source of labor in the South after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
500
Passed by Congress, this act sought to negotiate the exchange of American Indian Lands in the South for new lands in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
What was the Indian Removal Act?
500
This invention radically transformed the South's economy.
What is the Cotton Gin?
500
In 1853, the US obtained what is modern-day southern Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico in this agreement?
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
Under this compromise, California was admitted as a free state and Congress strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
After he was elected in 1876, he took out the last troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
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