Early Republic
This president acquired the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This president became known as the “common man’s president.”
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This phrase described the belief that the United States was meant to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This reform movement tried to end slavery in the United States.
What is abolition?
This issue caused growing tension between the North and South before the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This war, fought against Britain from 1812 to 1815, increased American nationalism.
What is the War of 1812?
Jackson strongly opposed this national financial institution.
What is the National Bank of the Bank of the United States?
This republic won independence from Mexico in 1836 before later joining the United States.
What is the Republic of Texas?
This women’s rights meeting in 1848 took place in New York.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This plan was put into place by President James Monroe to protect American interests in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
South Carolina argued it could cancel a federal law under this idea during the tariff crisis.
What is nullification?
These two people were the main leaders of the expedition that explored the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This former enslaved person became a major speaker and writer against slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This compromise used popular sovereignty in the territories gained from Mexico and admitted California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This Supreme Court chief justice helped strengthen the power of the federal government in the Early Republic.
Who is John Marshall?
This law led to the forced relocation of many Native Americans from the Southeast.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This agreement with Britain set the Oregon boundary at the 49th parallel.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
This woman is famous for saying “Ain’t I a Woman?” and speaking for both abolition and women’s rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This act angered many Northerners because it allowed slavery to expand by popular sovereignty and weakened the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the primary effect of the War of 1812 on the United States.
What is the U.S. industrializing?
This tragic forced journey of the Cherokee is remembered by this name.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This war added a huge amount of land to the United States in the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This movement encouraged people to improve society by changing problems like slavery, alcohol abuse, and unequal rights.
What is the reform movement?
This Supreme Court decision said Congress could not ban slavery in the territories and denied citizenship to African Americans.
What is the Dred Scott decision?