Major Policies
Important Individuals
Courts, Politics & Laws
Events
Misc. & Bonus
100
God ordained right to expand out west
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This President oversaw the purchase of the Louisiana territory from France
What is Thomas Jefferson?
100
One of the worst supreme court decision, determined that all slaves were property and therefor could not sue
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
100
The assassiniation of Abraham Lincoln led this man to becoming President
What is Andrew Johnson?
100
Push factor for many Irish Immigrants to come to the United States
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
200
Prohibited African Americans from purchasing land, renting land, moving or working certain jobs.
What is the Black Codes?
200
Classic duo who led an expedition of the newly acquired Louisiana territory
What is Lewis and Clark?
200
This Supreme court case established the principle of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
200
Name given to the massive violence which broke out in a state after people flooded to influence votes on whether to be slave or free
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters
What is the Spoils System?
300
Massive infrastructure project in the 1820's and 30's supported by Whigs in the North East
What is the Erie Canal?
300
President who pushed against the idea of a national bank, orchestrated mass Indian removal
What is Andrew Jackson?
300
1820 compromise over the expansion of slavery, created two new states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
Major religious revivalism in the 19th century
What is the Second Great Awakening?
300
Name at least two reasons for the War of 1812
What is Trade restrictions, Impressment of American sailors, and/or British support for Native American tribes?
400
First major women's rights convention which published the Declaration of Sentiments
What is Seneca Falls Convention
400
Radical abolitionist who led a failed raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
What is John Brown?
400
This 19th century party favored strong central government and gradual westward expansion
What is the Whigs?
400
Major slave rebellion in 1831, planned and targeted, brutally suppressed
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
400
First country to recognize the United States
What is Morocco?
500
Massive Nativist party with a strong anti catholic view
What is the Know-Nothings?
500
Argued slavery was a "positive good"
What is John C Calhoun?
500
Composed of five separate bills in an attempt to once again solve the issue of slavery. Admitted California as a free state
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
Massive 1832 debate between state and federal authority after South Carolina rejects a federal tariff
What is the Nullification Crisis?
500
19th-century American philosophical and literary movement that emphasized individualism, self-reliance, and the inherent goodness of humanity, led by Emerson and Thoreau
What is Transcendentalism?
600
Allotted 160 acres of free public land to individual settlers
What is the Homestead Act?
600
Publisher of the major abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
What is William Lloyd Garrison?
600
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
What is
13th: Outlaws slavery,
14th: Every person born in the US are citizens (except Indians), Equal protection of the laws
15th: Every male citizen can vote regardless of race
600
Name at least three of the five tribes removed during the Trail of Tears
What is Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole nations?
600
TWO PARTS:
Mr. English's Least Favorite President
Event which ended the Reconstruction era
What is Andrew Johnson & Compromise of 1877?