Democracy, sorta
This the act or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation; the freeing of someone from slavery
What is Emancipation?
In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson tasked Merriweather Lewis and William Clark with exploring lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase
What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
He was a self-taught lawyer who served as 16th U.S. president (1861–65), preserved the Union during the American Civil War, and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He was a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer who, on April 15, 1865, shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln as he watched a play, Our American Cousin, at the famous Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
This even, also known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. The rebels killed between 55 and 65 people, at least 51 of whom were White. Turner, along with 16 of his compatriots, were eventually captured and hanged. The incident put fear in the heart of Southerners, ended the organized emancipation movement in that region, resulted in even harsher laws against enslaved people.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion
This political party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. The party opposed the expansion of slavery before 1861 and led the fight to destroy the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1861-1865)
What is the Republican Party?
In 1803 this brought into the United States about 828,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These people were famous what?
Frederick Douglass, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Maria Stewart, Harriet Tubman, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
Who are Abolitionists/Suffragists?
He was the 7th President of the United States known for expanding suffrage to include all white men over the age of 21, dissolving the National Bank, and for the forced removal of indigenous tribes from their ancestral lands
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This was part of a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muskogee, and Seminole) between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government known as the Indian removal.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Founded in 1828, this party split in two factions because of disagreements over slavery, forming the Northern ________ Party and the Southern ______ party.
What is the Democratic Party
This is the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
She was instrumental to the success of the expedition, without her Lewis and Clark would have most likely died during the expedition.
Who was Sacagawea?
He was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This was part of the Compromise of 1850. 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.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institutions, including the dissolution of the National Bank.
What is Jacksonian Democracy
This was passed on May 28, 1830, beginning the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
He was an enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet, and their two daughters
Who was Dred Scott?
He was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-48). It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, and defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people. This principle was used during the mid-1800s to advocate that the people of the territories and new states themselves decide whether slavery would be permitted.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This was signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States
What is the Treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo?
He was the commanding general who led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He would eventually serve as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This was passed into law on May 30, 1854. It repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Supreme Court case, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision," ruled that slaves were not and could never be citizens.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857?