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200
This amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment
200
This president is associated with revolutionizing American democracy through increased voter participation and the spoils system.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
These laws limiting the freedom and economic opportunities of African Americans were prohibited by the 14th Amendment.
What are the Black Codes?
200
This lady advocated for changes to the United States prison system and helped created asylums for the mentally ill.
What is Dorothea Dix?
200
49ers were people who flocked to this state during its 1849 Gold Rush.
What is California?
400
Abolishes slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
This policy regulated slavery in the territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase by prohibiting it north of the 36°30′ parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This is the name for the enduring conflict between pro- and anti-slavery following the Kansas-Nebraska Acts.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
400

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led this first women's rights convention in upstate New York.

What is the Seneca Falls Convention?

400
He was president for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
600
Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
600
These THREE transportation developments greatly increased migration and trade with the West.
What are roads, railroads, and canals?
600
This law was included in the Compromise of 1850 and greatly empowered Southern slave owners to recapture slaves who had fled to the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
600
This William Lloyd Garrison newspaper demanded the immediate end to slavery and served as a beacon for the abolitionist movement
What is the Liberator?
600

In 1890 this battle (or massacre) marked the end of major Native American resistance to Federal Troops.

What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?

800
Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post–Civil War issues.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
800
This semi-secret political party was built upon the idea of nativism and strongly opposed Irish immigration
What is the Know Nothing Party?
800
This controversial deal resulted in the military's withdrawal from the south and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes winning the presidency.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
800
Education reform was assisted by the McGuffey Readers and this Massachusetts reformer
Who is Horace Mann?
800

This law took away 80% of the Indian lands by requiring them to register for land as individuals rather than as tribes

What is the Dawes Act?

1000
This amendment reinforces the principle of federalism by stating that the federal government possesses only those powers delegated to it by the states or the people through the Constitution.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
1000
The system of manufacturing products with interchangeable parts and Henry Clay's program of internal improvements share this common name.
What is the American System?
1000
This reconstruction plan offered a stricter alternative to Lincoln's proposal and required at least 50% of southern voters to take oaths of loyalty.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
1000

Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman were all participants of this intellectual movement the focused on the inherent goodness of people and nature.

What is transcendentalism?

1000

This historian wrote a famous thesis on the effect of the frontier on the United States. He thought the West provided a safety valve by giving the poor an area to move to and get a new start.

Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?