Abraham Lincoln
This was Lincoln's goal at the start of the Civil War.
Preserve the Union.
Washington established the principle that the federal government can intervene in a state to enforce federal law by doing this.
Suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion
Kansas started to bleed in 1855 because of these.
Border Ruffian from MO
His 1794 invention almost single-handedly made slavery immensely profitable, and assured its survival for the next 70 years.
Eli Whitney
Industrialized electricity, which replaced water power.
Thomas Edison
Victory at Antietam enabled Lincoln to issue this.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This was the biggest problem facing the Washington administration.
Debt
Thaddeus Stevens led these radicals in the House after the Civil War.
Radical Republicans
His idea for the federal government to assume all state debts and thereby get the states to support the federal government gave the George Washington administration immense stability.
Alexander Hamilton
Popular Sovereignty, by which the people decided whether a territory would be slave or free.
Stephen Douglas
The biggest help Lincoln got toward his re-election in 1864 was this.
Union victories in the South.
British soldiers supplying Indians with weapons motivated Washington to negotiate this agreement with Britain.
The Jay Treaty
Harriet Tubman undertook massive civil disobedience in the 1850s by helping slaves with this organization.
The Underground Railroad.
His decision in Marbury v. Madison created the doctrine of Judicial Review, and made federal courts a co-equal branch of the government.
John Marshall
Europeans may not colonize anywhere in the western hemisphere.
James Monroe (the Monroe Doctrine)
This is the best description of Lincoln's position on slavery.
He was an anti-slavery moderate.
Washington supported the founding of this as a way of managing the U.S. debt.
1st Bank of the U.S.
Preston Brooks showed how intense passions about slavery had become in 1856 by doing this.
Beating Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate.
Although he was a brilliant political theorist, his decision to impose the Embargo Act in 1807 backfired, and created economic hardship in the U.S.
Thomas Jefferson
The strategy of Exhaustion, by which all property was destroyed that could be used by an army.
Ulysses S. Grant
This was Lincoln's pla for Reconstruction after the Civil War.
The 10% Plan
Washington believed U.S. involvement in this was likely to bankrupt the U.S.. It was also too radical.
The French Revolution
Mental hospitals and prison reform were among the interests of this radical reformer.
Dorothea Dix
He understood that transportation was the key to making money, and so he made it the central feature of his American System.
Henry Clay
Nurses are more useful if the can tend to wounded on the battlefield.
Clara Barton