Extended Proper Noun List
Extended Proper Noun List Continued
EARLY REPUBLIC, EXPANSION, AND REFORM
SECTIONALISM
The Civil War
100

The 'mother country' of the 13 colonies in which the United States would later declare war on in 1812.

What was Great Britain?

100

The highest court in the land

What is the Supreme Court?

100

President George Washington

Who was the first President of the United States?

100

The belief shown in the zealous westward expansion of the United States from coast to coast

What is Manifest Destiny?

100

Preserve the Union and Win the War

What are Abraham Lincoln's goals during the Civil War?
200

At first it was a struggle to equip this new army to carry out the war because the newly created government lacked money to pay for the mounting costs.

What was the Continental Congress?

200

The Union and the Confederacy

What were the two factions of the Civil War?

200
Known for implementing the Alien and Sedition Acts to keep his political opponents at bay

Who was John Adams?

200

This compromise was created to preserve the balance of Slave and Free states

What was the Missouri Compromise? 

200

numerical and industrial superiority

What were the primary advantages of the North in the Civil War?

300

The name used to refer to refer to both branches of the legislative branch. It consists of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

What is Congress?

300
The nation of primary concern during the creation of NATO

What is the Soviet Union?

300

Originally avoided by previous presidents, this war began because American ships became caught in the cross fire between Great Britain and France

What was the War of 1812?

300

The effort to subvert the issue of slavery that created a bloody conflict in the Kansas

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

the legal right that anyone imprisoned must be taken before a judge to determine if the prisoner is being legally held in custody

What is Habeas Corpus?

400

Thomas Jefferson’s supporters that stood in opposition to the Federalists and believed that the national government must limit its power to only those areas described by the Constitution.

Who were the Democratic-Republicans?

400
Following his capture of Atlanta, William T. Sherman became distinguished for this notable act of the Civil War. He destroyed critical railways, roads, and bridges along his path to the Atlantic Coast.
What was the March to the Sea?
400

Designed to increase the land that was available for white settlement. This act forced thousands of American Indians to leave their land and move west of the Mississippi River.

What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

400

the 1857 ruling settled a lawsuit in which a slave claimed he should be a free man. He had lived with his master in slave states and in free states and believed he had been held illegally in the free states. The Supreme Court rejected the claim, ruling that no enslaved or free Black could be a citizen of the United States.

What was the Dredd Scott Decision?

400

A federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Confederate forces staged a 24-hour bombardment against it and, by attacking federal property, had committed an act of open rebellion.

What is Fort Sumter?

500

The area of land ceded by Mexico following the Mexican-American War.

What is the Mexican Cession?
500
The bitter rivals of the Presidential Election of 1876

Who were Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden?

500

By 1820, although racial discrimination against Blacks remained, slavery had largely ended in the North. Many northerners and some southerners took up this cause

What was Abolitionism?

500

The man that is known for standing against slavery with violence and killing.

Who was John Brown?

500

Considered the Final Major Battle of the Civil War

What is the Battle of Atlanta?