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Presidents
Vocabulary
Acts,Rulings,
Amendments
Reformers
100
Name given route of Cherokees during their forced removal in the winter of 1838-1839
What is the Trail of Tears
100
Purchased Louisiana Territory from France
Who is Thomas Jefferson
100
Act of shutting a port or road to prevent people or supplies from going in or out
What is a blockade
100
First 10 amendments to the constitution
What is Bill of Rights
100
Reformed prisons and created mental institutions
Who is Dorothea Dix
200
Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel
Who is Aaron Burr
200
Said, "...with malice toward none; with charity for all."
Who is Abraham Lincoln
200
Device that used electrical signals to send messages
What is a telegraph
200
Outlawed slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
200
Known as the "Black Moses"
Who is Harriet Tubman
300
The idea that the US was destined to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is manifest destiny
300
Became president right after Lincoln's assassination
Who is Andrew Johnson
300
Right to vote
What is suffrage
300
Required colonists to house British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act
300
Escaped slave who spoke at rallies and published The North Star
Who is Frederick Douglass
400
Abolitionist who led the attack on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Who is John Brown
400
Served shortest term in office of any American president
Who is William Henry Harrison
400
Military term for persons killed, wounded or missing in action
What is casualties
400
Said slavery in new territories would be decided by popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
Leader in education reform
Who is Horace Mann
500
Song written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812
What is The Star Spangled Banner
500
Jackson accused him of making a "corrupt bargain" with Clay to get the presidency
Who is John Quincy Adams
500
Self-appointed law enforcers
Who are vigilantes
500
Said a slave who had been taken by the doctor who owned him to free territory was not free
What is the Dred Scott Decision
500
Wrote "A Declaration of Sentiments" which declared rights for women
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton