Jacksonian America
The president that was defeated by Jackson in the election of 1828.
Who is John Q. Adams?
Literally meaning, "before the war."
What is antebellum?
The seceding Southern states formed a new country called this.
What are the Confederate States of America?
This was the president that presided over the Reconstruction period.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This country lost more than half of its territory in a failed war against the United States.
What is Mexico?
Andrew Jackson was the ____ president of the US.
What is seventh?
What is religion?
This was the Southern general whose tactical genius lengthened the war by several years.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed the rights of African Americans, especially the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment
It was this ideology that pushed America to expand westward under divine authority.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The route by which the Cherokee tribe (among others) were forced to take during their relocation.
What is the Trail of Tears?
These were the major forms that abolition took during the antebellum period.
What are gradual, radical and political abolition?
These two battles guaranteed a Union victory by cutting the South in two and stopping the South's Northern offensive.
What is Vicksburg and Gettysburg?
This was Lincoln's plan to readmit the Southern states back into the US, after a certain amount of them agreed to his terms.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
This was the political idea of allowing states to self-determine their policies on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was the federal law that allowed for the relocation of Native American tribes in the American South.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
These immigrants were discriminated for many reasons, foremost among them being that they were Catholic.
What are the Irish?
This was the Union general who was able to force the Southern states to surrender.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The implementation of these measures to control the African-American population signaled the failure of Reconstruction.
What are black codes?
In an attempt to prevent a sectional divide, Stephen Douglas implemented this strategy in the Western territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The system by which Jackson put his friends into positions of federal power.
What is the Spoils System?
This was the place where women's rights took its first major step, by declaring the sentiments of all women.
What is Seneca Falls?
The South was brought to surrender at this now historical landmark.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Southerners that sided with the Republican party were referred to as this derogatory slang.
What is a scalawag?
In a series of escalating conflict, pro and anti-slavery forces battled each other for control of this key state.
(give the name for the conflict)
What is Bleeding Kansas?