People
Events
Women
Slavery
Politics
100

Similar to Gabriel's Revolt, this man lead a more successful revolt towards slave owners. However, his revolt failed due to organization and communication issues.

Nat Turner

100

The US doubled in size after buying this from the French for 15 million. The French sold it to us because they lost Haiti and needed the money due to their war with the British.

Louisiana Purchase

100

Factories in New England gave cheap wages to these people as textile factories grew thanks to the demand of cotton

Mill girls

100

This vast domain of Southern States that powered the world's economy and fueled the British Industrialization was known was what?

Cotton Kingdom

100

Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Missouri Compromise

200

Known as the "man of the people," this man helped to expand voting rights to all white adult males

Andrew Jackson

200
Native people united together to oppose white settlers and their influences. 

Tecumseh Confederacy

200

This ideology held that women's place was the home. They believed they should be educated but in order to raise good Republican citizens.

Cult of Domesticity

200

This place was envisioned as a colony to settle free US Black people. Many, however, did move to it.

Liberia

200

This party was the precursor to the Republican Party. Formed in 1839, they opposed the practice of slavery

The Liberty Party

300

This man tried to start a nation wide slave revolt by attacking Harper's Ferry. He also took he and his five sons to Kansas to fight pro-slavery sympathizers.

John Brown

300

This was the forced removal of the 5 "Civilized" Tribes from their homelands in Georgia to Oklahoma 

Trail of Tears

300

A formerly enslaved Black woman, she was a feminist and abolitionist with a particular interest for working class women.

Sojourner Truth

300

This state was the first state to succeed for fears that the presidency of Abraham Lincoln would lead to the end of slavery.

South Carolina

300

The verdict of this case ruled that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

400

These men were only one term presidents because they were viewed as unpopular to due their anti-slavery stances and less harsher stances toward Native people.

John Adams and John Quincy Adams

400
This war started because the British kept using their native allies to attack us, the kept impressing our sailors, and we wanted Canada.

War of 1812

400

The daughters of a slave holder, they went on to become prominent abolitionist activist and had lectures about their own experiences with slavery. 

Grimke Sisters

400

This successful slave revolt happened because the courts deemed their enslavement as being unlawful thanks to the Ban on the International Slave Trade of 1808

Amistad

400

South Carolina claimed that under this practice states had the Constitutional right to reject federal laws.

Nullification