Expansion
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
This 1848 document outlined the rights women should have, including the right to vote.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments
This doctrine argued that states could reject federal laws they believed unconstitutional, leading to a crisis in South Carolina.
What is nullification
This movement sought the immediate end of slavery in the United States.
What is abolitionism
This term describes strong loyalty to one’s country.
What is nationalism
This belief justified westward expansion and the displacement of Native Americans.
What is Manifest Destiny
This movement worked to expand voting and legal rights for women in the 19th century.
What is the women’s suffrage movement
This issue was the main cause of sectional conflict between North and South
What is Slavery
This abolitionist published the newspaper The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
This 1823 doctrine warned European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
This 1830 law allowed the federal government to force Native American tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act
This document, demanding equal rights for women was modeled from what other document?.
The Declaration of Independence
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise
This formerly enslaved abolitionist became a powerful speaker and writer.
Who is Frederick Douglass
This Supreme Court case strengthened federal power over the states.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland
This war between the United States and Mexico was fought from 1846 to 1848 over land in the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War
This 1848 convention marked the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the U.S.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention
This 1850 compromise admitted California as a free state and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad
This Supreme Court case established judicial review, strengthening the power of the federal judiciary.
What is Marbury v. Madison
This treaty officially ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. large territories in the Southwest.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This reformer helped organize Seneca Falls and later led the women’s suffrage movement.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This 1854 act allowed settlers to vote on slavery, leading to violent conflict in Kansas.
What is the Kansas–Nebraska Act
This anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped turn public opinion in the North against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This describes when Americans placed the interests of their nation above regional or state interests.
What is Patriotism