Name for British sympathizers during American Revolution
What are Loyalists [or Tories]?
Right that was increased for free white men but reduced for women and African Americans during the Age of Jackson
What was the right to vote?
19th-century reformers who were not much fun at a party
Who were Temperance advocates? (must specifically mention Temperance)
Significant land acquisition by President Thomas Jefferson
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Primary impact of Missouri Compromise of 1820
What maintained balance between slave and free states (by admitting Missouri as slave, Maine as free, and banning slavery north of 36º 30' parallel in remaining Louisiana Purchase lands)?
First state to secede from the United States
What is South Carolina?
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Who was the Long Island political leader (and slaveowner) who signed the Declaration of Independence?
William Floyd!
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3 primary locations where Loyalists went after the American Revolution
What is Nova Scotia/Canada, England, and Sierra Leone/Africa? (or West Indies/Caribbean)
Name and year of the law that ended slavery in New York
What is the Gradual Manumission Act of 1799? (also known as "Gradual Abolition Act")
3 factors that contributed to "market intensification" in early-mid 19th century
What are new modes of transportation, communication, infrastructure, banking/access to capital, industrialization, and immigration/more available labor?
[can accept any of the above--or closely related ones]
Infamous event precipitated by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the nation primarily impacted
What are the Trail of Tears and the Cherokee Nation?
New law in 1850 that enflamed Northern anti-slavery sentiments
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
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What does this image show & what was its significance?
First written version of Cherokees' language (devised by Sequoyah in 1810-20s), which facilitated their literacy and print culture--including their own Constitution and newspaper!
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Addition to the Constitution that convinced skeptics to vote in favor of ratification
What is the Bill of Rights?
Name and purpose of the national institution, founded in 1791, that was later opposed by Andrew Jackson
What was the National Bank, founded to stabilize national monetary policy? [also to standardize currency, collect taxes, lend funds to federal government, etc.]
Editor of the leading abolition newspaper and the name of the newspaper
Who is William Lloyd Garrison and what is The Liberator?
Elias Boudinot
Who was the Cherokee leader who, fearing Indian removal was inevitable, tried to accommodate American demands? [and/or signed the 1835 Treaty of New Echota in 1835, hoping to gain the best conditions for his people]
Site of intense sectional violence over the issue of slavery and name of the radical abolitionist who first gained national attention there
Where is Kansas territory and who is John Brown?
3 critical events in 1863
What is the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, and NYC Draft Riots? [will also accept any of the following battles: Vicksburg, Fort Wagner, Antietam, or Chancellorsville]
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What was the main cause of the event depicted in this political cartoon?
Invasion of "Bleeding Kansas" by Missouri border ruffians to manipulate popular sovereignty in favor entering the U.S. as a slave state!
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Letter series written to promote ratification of the new Constitution and 2 of its 3 authors
What are the Federalist Papers and who are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and/or John Jay?
Conflict that earned added fame for Andrew Jackson and led to U.S. annexation of Florida from Spain
What is the First Seminole War [or Seminole War]?
Abolitionist who gave a famous speech, that included this opening line: "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. . . "
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Event about which President Jackson allegedly said “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
What was the Supreme Court's ruling that rejected Georgia's authority to apply state laws to Cherokee lands? Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Dred Scott Decision
What Supreme Court ruling determined African Americans were not citizens (and thus had no political rights or standing to sue in federal court)?
[and/or: What SC ruling determined the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional?]
President of the United States after Lincoln and 2 things for which he's most remembered
Who is Andrew Johnson and what are undermining Reconstruction and impeachment? (He was the first U.S. president to be impeached, but not convicted.)
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Identify this song and fill in the blanks:
"Away down South in the land of traitors, Rattlesnakes and __________, Right away, come away, right away, come away.
Where cotton's king and men are _________, Union boys will win the battles, Right away, come away, right away, come away."
Union version of "Dixie" (1861)
"Away down South in the land of traitors, Rattlesnakes and Alligators, Right away, come away, right away, come away.
Where cotton's king and men are Chattels, Union boys will win the battles, Right away, come away, right away, come away."
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3 ways the Constitution protected slavery (although the word does not appear in the document...)
What are the 3/5ths clause (counting enslaved population towards state's representation), prohibited any ban on Atlantic slave trade for 20 years, and Fugitive Slave Clause (requiring return of escaped slaves), and/or fed government given power to subdue domestic rebellions, including slave insurrections?
Name and home state of man who stated that slavery “is a slow poison, which is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every Gentleman here is born a petty Tyrant. . . . [Slaves are] far from being a desirable property. . . [but] it will involve us in great difficulties and infelicity to be now deprived of them.”
Who was George Mason of Virginia?
Dorothea Dix was one of the pioneers of this important social reform movement--which continues to the present day.
What is the Disability Rights Movement?
5 of the 6 flags that have flown over Texas
What are Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, United States of America, and Confederate States of America?
What event is depicted and who are 2 of the 4 men shown?
What is the Election of 1860 and who are Abraham Lincoln (winner) and Stephen Douglass? [or Breckenridge and Bell]
3 goals of Reconstruction
What are political rights, education, and land distribution for freedmen and/or re-integration of Southern states into the Union?
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Who said these words and on what specific occasion? "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln at the Dedication of the Gettysburg Battlefield as a National Memorial? (or National Cemetery)
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