Presidents
Name the two main presidents we discussed in this unit
Who are Jefferson and Jackson?
Which territory was the US trying to take over during the War of 1812?
What is Canada?
The name given to the removal of Cherokees from their homelands to what is now Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom seekers to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States
What is the Underground Railroad?
This man single handedly tried to start the Civil War on his own
Who is John Brown?
Which conflict made Andrew Jackson rise to prominence and eventually helped him become president?
What is the War of 1812?
What is manifest destiny?
The belief that the United States was meant to settle all the land between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (“From sea to shining sea”).
What law forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River?
Indian Removal Act
What is the name of the route from Africa to the America's?
What is the middle passage?
Which constant question had to be asked every time a new territory was added to the United States?
What is slave or free state?
This president sent American soldiers to Boston at one point to "calm tensions" after the Dred Scott Decision
Who is Pierce?
This is the name given to a time period of religious revival taking place out West
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
What is the connection between the Cotton Gin and the removal of Natives from their lands?
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Which invention drastically increased slavery in the South?
What is the Cotton Gin?
The 1820 ruling that admitted Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Name 3 Arguments for and against Andrew Jackson
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The United States defeated what country to gain land in the southwest, including California, Arizona, and Nevada?
What is Mexico?
How did the different tribes of the
“Civilized Five” try to secure their lands?
Mention at least three methods.
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The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
Who wrote the book 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Jackson= Defied the Supreme Court
Jefferson= Louisiana Purchase. Buying it before it was approved by Congress.
How much $$ exactly did the US pay France for the Louisiana Territory?
What is $15 million?
List the 5 "Civilized" Tribes that we forcibly removed during Westward Expansion
What is Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole?
Name the 5 abolitionists that we discussed in this unit
Who is William Loyd Garrison, the Grimke Sisters, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown?
This decision/law caused tension throughout the country, as one state in particular became a battleground for whether or not it would be a slave or free state
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?