Jefferson and Jackson Administrations
Antebellum North and Manifest Destiny
The West
The Road to Fort Sumter
Civil War and Reconstruction
100
This institution was disliked by Jefferson and Jackson with both saying it was unconstitutional.
What is the National Bank?
100
This is the reason most Northern states had abolished slavery by the time of the Civil War.
What is the North had industry and manufacturing and little need for slave labor due to soil and climate?
100
This invention radically transformed the South's economy.
What is the cotton gin?
100
This idea proposed barring slavery from the West.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
How did Sherman's actions affect the Civil War?
It destroyed plantations and southern crops depriving the South of the will and means to fight.
200
What was the irony of Jefferson's buying of the Louisiana Purchase?
It did not follow his strict interpretation of the Constitution.
200
Explain Manifest Destiny.
What is the God-given right to take land and move West that many Americans championed?
200
This law gave 160 acres of free land to anyone that would go farm.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
This is the idea that the people in a territory could choose whether to allow slavery made famous in the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
This amendment said blacks were citizens and that states had to equally protect its citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
The Tariff of Abominations centered around this idea that states do not have to follow federal law that Calhoun proposed for South Carolina.
What is nullification?
300
This president is known and Mr. Manifest Destiny and had a campaign slogan of "54"40' or fight".
Who is James Polk?
300
The building of this connected the West to the East with both positive and negative impacts on the country.
What is Trans-Continental Railroad?
300
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which fueled anger in both parts of the country.
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 is the main reason Polk fought the Mexican War.
What is to get huge areas of land fulfilling his own visions of Manifest Destiny?
400
This law gave states money to build colleges that focused on agriculture and mechanical arts (A&M).
What is the Morrill Act?
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
What was the main result of the American Revolution and War of 1812?
Complete and irreversible separation and independence from Great Britain.
500
This treaty ended the Mexican War and gave vast amounts of land to the US.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
Explain the affect of the various gold rushes in America?
What is a migration to the West while most miners didn't profit only the store owners and suppliers in the mining towns?
500
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?
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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