system in which Andrew Jackson filled political positions with his supporters and party members.
What is the Spoils system?
100
principle that states all legal rights promised to citizens must be respected by government.
What is the due process?
100
main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson ?
100
U.S. president during the Civil War, assassinated in 1865, supported a plan in which 10% of voters from the 1860 election in the South would swear an oath of loyalty to the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln ?
100
the single, bloodiest day of fighting in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
act that forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River
What is the Indian Removal Act ?
200
amendment that protects against soldiers being quartered in an individual's house.
What is the Third Amendment ?
200
first battle of the American Revolution.
Where was the first battle of the American Revolution.
200
granted African Americans citizenship and gave them the rights to make contracts, sue, and own property.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
200
the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
the forced movement of over 4,000 Native Americans from Georgia to what is now Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears
300
name given to the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights ?
300
First lady who spent the winter with the soldiers at Valley Forge and helped to raise their morale.
Who was Martha Washington?
300
consist of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
What are the Reconstruction Amendments ?
300
a major turning point in the war in which Union forces drove the Confederates out of the North in 1863.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg ?
400
term used by supporters of Andrew Jackson to describe the outcome of the election of 1824
What is the corrupt bargain?
400
amendment that states citizens have the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment ?
400
Native American who served as an officer in the British army during the American Revolution.
Who is Joseph Brant ?
400
term given to the northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction, often believed to be only interested in making money in the areas that needed to be rebuilt.
What is a carpetbagger ?
400
president of the confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis ?
500
executive order stating that people had to use gold or silver to buy government land.
What is the Specie Circular?
500
amendment that protects the right to a speedy trial by an impartial jury.
What is the Sixth Amendment ?
500
general who led the Americans to victory at the Battle of Saratoga
Who is Benedict Arnold ?
500
organized in 1866 by proponents of white supremacy and white nationalism, this group threatened African Americans with violence to keep from voting.
What is Ku Klux Klan?
500
Union Strategy to blockade the Confederacy's coastline.