Radicals and Reformers
This religious revival movement of the 1830s and 40s is considered an ancestor to modern evangelical faiths.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
In 1803, the Jefferson administration agreed to this deal with Napoleon’s France, more than doubling the size of the U.S. overnight.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, but this 1865 amendment formally abolished slavery.
What was is 13th Amendment?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
When the second two party system crumbled under sectional tensions in the 1850s, this new antislavery party was born.
What was the Republican Party?
The 14th Amendment guarantees this to all citizens.
What is equal protection before the law? (also will accept birthright citizenship)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Activist Carrie Nation, who advocated for abstinence from alcohol, was a leader of this movement.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This 1820 compromise prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of 36’30 latitude, amongst other things.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
America’s first social service agency was dedicated to helping formerly enslaved people.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This populist president, first elected in 1828, is remembered as the father of the Democratic party.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
In the mid-19th century 2 million immigrants came to the U.S. from this country, fleeing famine.
What is Ireland?
This famous abolitionist and feminist orator asked “What to the slave is the 4th of July?”
Who was Frederick Douglass?
During the California Gold Rush, at least 1 in 5 gold miners came from this country.
What was China?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 proposed this solution to the question of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
What was popular sovereignty?
He was elected president in what was called the “Revolution of 1800”.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The Monroe Doctrine established a U.S. sphere of influence in this part of the world.
What is the Western Hemisphere or Latin America?
He published the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and in 1833 he founded the American Antislavery Society.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
The forced migration of 2,000 Cherokee people from Georgia to Oklahoma is remembered by this name.
What was the Trail of Tears?
This 1862 battle was the single bloodiest day in American military history.
What was Antietam?
This compromise made Republican Rutherford B. Hayes president in exchange for the removal of troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Historians use this term to describe a shift in gender relations during the Market Revolution, in which the rise of factory labor led people to see the home as a refuge away from work, effectively devaluing women's domestic labor.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
In 1859 John Brown led a raid on an armory in this place, hoping to start a slave rebellion.
Mexico ceded 55% of its territory to the United States under the terms of this treaty.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Describe at least 2 elements of the Compromise of 1850.
What are... CA admitted as a free state, popular sovereignty for the UT and NM, ban on slave trade in DC, or new Fugitive Slave Law?
This political party was “cancelled” over its failure to support the war of 1812, effectively leading to the end of the United States’ first 2 party system.
What was the Federalist Party?
Marbury v Madison (1803) established this doctrine, giving the Supreme Court the power to decide the constitutionality of laws.
What is judicial review?