Vocab Grab
United Facts of America
Jackson
The 1860s
Civil War
100
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman all supported this, a term for the formal end to slavery in the US
What is abolition?
100
By 1824 there were three "sections" emerging in the United States; those three sections are?
What are the West, the South, and the Northeast?
100
President Jackson's election in 1828 broke norms as he was the first president to hail from this "section" of the US
What is the West?
100
This "proclamation" is credited to Lincoln for freeing the slaves; the truth of the matter is more complex...
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This decision found that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
200
This convention, held in New York, was the one of the earliest conventions held in the Women's Rights Movement
What is the Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls?
200
This doctrine claims that states could alter acts if the national government overstepped its bounds.
What is the nullification doctrine?
200
This era was dubbed due to the illusion of good times present in Jackson's presidency.
What is the era of good feelings?
200
Which event, over the issue of popular sovereignty, split the Democratic Party and ushered in a Republican in the election of 1860
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
200
Compact theory, or the belief that the Union was a set of compacts between states, was challenged by what action, started off in South Carolina.
What is the secession?
300
Due to Andrew Jackson's desire for land, he ignored Supreme Court rulings and forcibly removed Native Americans from their lands in the Southeast, a forced migration know as what?
What is the Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears?
300
By ending property qualifications, the West helped lead the way in extending what right to more Americans?
What is the right to vote?
300
Another term of the politics practiced during the Age of Jackson
What is Jacksonian Democracy
300
This system was not created by Jackson but it was definitely popularized by him; it was a great reason to become his friend!
What is the spoils system?
300
This map followed this act, which overode the Missouri Compromise and allowed territories to enter as states based on popular sovereignty, complications that arose in the Civil War
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Following the Missouri Compromise, this compromise staved off the Civil War for another 10 years.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
This doctrine, issued and drafted by American leaders, prohibited new colonies in Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
Despite two Supreme Court rulings, this was enacted between 1831-1840, as President Jackson refused to enforce the courts' ruling.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
400
"Four score and seven years ago..." is the beginning of this wartime address, in which Lincoln stated "government for, by, and of the people" shall not perish from this earth.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
This amendment made slavery illegal, except as a punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
This doctrine effectively closed the North American continent to further colonization and threatened European powers if they tried to intervene.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
500
This feature of American elections was created by the Founders who doubted the common-person's ability to choose a leader. Today, not much about that fear has changed...
What is the electoral college?
500
Postwar nationalism lasted from 1812 until what year?
What is 1819?
500
This man surrendered at Appomattox Court House, brining an end of to the Civil War
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
Ultimately, Lincoln was a loose constructivist, choosing to bend the Constitution in order to preserve this, his reason for entering the Civil War
What is the Union?