Andrew Jackson
Mexican American War
Sectionalism
Civil War
Reconstruction
This and That
100
Jackson was the Hero of the Battle of New Orleans, that occurred at the end of THIS war
What is the War of 1812?
100
Mexico is located HERE in relation to the United States (Using cardinal directions)
What is South/Southwest?
100
Sectionalism refers to
loyalty to a region over that of a country's
100
The Civil War was mainly fought over THIS issue
What is Slavery?
100
This man became President after Lincoln was assassinated and was impeached for vetoing Radical Republican legislation
Who was President Johnson?
100
President during the Civil War and also the capital of Nebraska
Who/What is Lincoln?
200
One of Jackson's main policies that dealt with the removal of THIS group of inhabitants
What were Native Americans?
200
This man was President during the Mexican American War
Who is James K. Polk?
200
This issue bitterly divided the United States leading up to the Civil War
What was slavery?
200
Prior to the Civil War, most of the factories in the United States were located here
What is the North?
200
This government agency was established to help freed African Americans find work, lost relatives, and attain education
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
Term to describe Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction and also a term that has to do with people who move from one state to another to run for office
What were Carpetbaggers?
300
The name of the law that President Jackson convinced Congress to pass, which helped to "remove" Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River
What is "The Indian Removal Act?"
300
The center of the Mexican American controversy centered on which then "nation" now referred to as the "Lone Star State"
What is Texas?
300
The decision in this Supreme Court case in 1857 which denied an enslaved African his freedom, pushed the United States towards Civil War
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
300
During the Civil War this technology changed how ships did battle
What is using steam powered steel ships instead of wooden ships?
300
This Amendment added to the Constitution guarantees equal protection of the law
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
This image is associated with this belief that Americans were ordained to settle the West
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
Another of President Jackson's policies had to do with the closing THIS "financial" institution
What is the Bank of the United States?
400
This Illinois representative (and future President) questioned the truthfulness of the United States' reasons for going to war with Mexico
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
400
This act passed in 1854 attempted to solve the issue of slavery through allowing residents "popular sovereignty"
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
400
As a result of the Civil War, this Amendment was passed which abolished slavery, except as punishment for committing a crime
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
A "failure" of Reconstruction was a result of the Plessy v Ferguson case which resulted in these laws
What are Jim Crow Laws/Segregation?
400
This Confederate sympathizer and actor infamously assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, days after the culmination of the Civil War
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
500
During President Jackson's term, the South threatened to "secede" over this issue
What is the tariff issue?
500
This treaty signed at the end of the Mexican American War gave the United States Texas as well as what would become the states of California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico
What is the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo?
500
The violence between pro and anti slavery forces was described by this "gory" phrase
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
500
General of the Confederate Army who surrendered at Appottomax Courthouse, Virginia, 1865, ending the Civil War
Who was Robert E. Lee?
500
This African American was the first African American senator
Who was Hiram Revels?
500
Many former slaves became this, which refers to farmers who rent land from landowners, often going into a nearly endless cycle of debt. Also sounds similar to something one would buy on the stockmarket
What were sharecroppers?