Groups
This party began as an odd coalition of former Whigs, anti-immigration lobbyists, Northern industrialists, Free-Soilers, and abolitionists.
Republican Party
First put into words by John O’Sullivan in 1845, this idea motivated US expansion in the mid-1800s.
Manifest Destiny
Name this device, invented by Eli Whitney, which helped fuel the rapid expansion of slavery after 1800.
Cotton Gin
Name this involuntary migration prompted by Andrew Jackson’s land and foreign policy.
Trail of Tears (or Indian Removal)
Name this government act which made illegal almost all forms of slavery and “involuntary servitude.”
(Bonus if you name the follow-up which guaranteed civil rights to all US citizens.)
13th Amendment (14th)
Name this political group which reconsolidated under the leadership of Andrew Jackson.
Democratic Party
Name as many women active in the 19th-century reform movements as you can, receiving 200 points for each.
Grimke Sisters (Angelina and Sarah), Anthony, Stanton, Mott, Dix, etc.
This man went to the woods to make a point about the supposed moral bankruptcy of American materialism.
This demographic crisis, caused in part by agricultural issues, prompted a mass migration of overseas immigrants to the USA.
Irish Potato Famine
The first of two persons to do this, name this person who led a slave uprising in Virginia in the 19th century.
Nat Turner
This group took its popular name from its origins as a secret society to which its members frequently pled ignorance.
Know-Nothings (American Party)
Not actually included in the original draft of the Constitution, this important part of American law was a compromise initiated during the ratification process.
Bill of Rights
Name this town which hosted several textile mills staffed primarily by young women.
Lowell, MA
This followers of this important religion, originating in the Burned-Over District, eventually migrated to what is now Utah. Bonus if you can say where the B-OD was located.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Upstate NY)
Frederick Douglass delivered what is considered his finest speech on this explosive day in 1852.
4th of July (or 5th)
This group, composed mostly of abolitionists and reformers, were the foremost supporters and instigators of Reconstruction.
Radical Republicans
This event revolutionized the way goods, labor, and wealth were produced and distributed in the USA.
Market Revolution
Name this institution founded at the end of the Civil War meant to alleviate the conditions of certain vulnerable persons in the South.
Freedmen's Bureau
The labor force that prepared this region for permanent settlement were forcibly overland from the coastal states.
Cotton Belt/Deep South
Name this event which took place in NYC as a result of the escalation of the Civil War.
NY Draft Riots
Name this group of people who lived Texas prior to the migration of Americans and were subsequently disenfranchised.
Tejanos
Name this feat of early 19th engineering which connected Atlantic shipping routes to the Great Lakes.
Erie Canal
Who did the Emancipation Proclamation free? (Theoretically? Functionally? Bonus for both)
All enslaved persons in the Confederate States/A few counties of people
Used as a threat against slave resistance, this location was more of a direction but was facilitated by the advent of steamboat shipping.
"Down the River"
Name this important general who, known primarily for wartime events, also put down a rebellion in VA in 1859.
Robert E. Lee