People and Ideas
This president is associated with the Democratic Party and the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
This 1803 purchase from France roughly doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
Under the Missouri Compromise, Maine entered the Union as this type of state.
Free State
This 1820 agreement admitted Maine and Missouri while setting a geographic restriction on slavery.
Missouri Compromise
This term means the withdrawal of a state from the Union.
Secession
Confederate forces attacked this federal fort in April 1861.
Ft. Sumter
This formerly enslaved abolitionist became a well-known writer and speaker.
Frederick Douglass
This belief held that the United States was destined to expand across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
Under the same compromise, Missouri entered the Union as this type of state.
Slave State
The Compromise of 1850 admitted this western state as a free state.
California
This abolitionist led the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
John Brown
Fort Sumter was located in the harbor of this South Carolina city.
Charleston
This system rewards political supporters with government jobs.
Spoils System
This movement sought to reduce or end alcohol consumption.
Temperance Movement
Maine and Missouri entered the Union with different slavery policies partly to preserve this balance in Congress.
The Balance Between Free and Slave
This strengthened 1850 law required cooperation in returning people who had escaped slavery.
Fugitive Slave Act
Proslavery and antislavery settlers fought over the future of slavery in this territory, giving it a violent nickname.
Bleeding Kansas
The attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning of this conflict.
The Civil War
This term refers to the right to vote.
Suffrage
This 1848 convention in New York focused on women’s rights.
Seneca Falls Convention
The Missouri Compromise generally prohibited slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory north of this latitude.
What is the 36 30
Under this idea, settlers in a territory would decide whether to permit slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
John Brown hoped to seize weapons at Harpers Ferry to start this.
Uprising against slavery by slaves
This name was used by the seceded states that fought against the Union.
The Confederacy
This idea held that a state could declare a federal law invalid within its borders.
Nullification
This forced journey moved Cherokee people from their homelands to Indian Territory.
Trail of Tears
The Missouri Compromise temporarily addressed this question that repeatedly divided the nation as it gained territory.
Would slavery expand into new territories and states?
This 1854 law opened Kansas and Nebraska to popular sovereignty and overturned the Missouri Compromise restriction there.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
After Lincoln’s election, many southern leaders feared that his opposition to slavery’s expansion threatened this.
The future of slavery
These slaveholding states remained in the Union and were strategically important to both sides.
Border States