The Age of Jackson
man who proposed the Missouri Compromise
Who is Henry Clay?
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
meaning "to add"
winner of the 1860 election
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
capital city of the Confederacy
What is Richmond?
loyalty to local interests
What is sectionalism?
Native-born Americans who opposed immigration
What are nativists?
the idea that it was the United States' fate to spread from sea to sea
What is Manifest Destiny?
this waterway separated the free states from the slave states west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Ohio River?
acted as the president of the Confederacy
who is Jefferson Davis?
these two states were a part of the Missouri Compromise
What are Maine and Missouri?
the largest immigrant groups in the mid-1800s
Who are the Irish and the Germans?
president of independent Texas
Who is Sam Houston?
author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
soldiers on horseback
What is a calvary?
this act removed Native Americans from their homes east of the Mississippi River to present day Oklahoma
What is the Indian Removal Act?
author of The North Star newspaper
Who is Frederick Douglass?
this disputed river is the southern border of Texas
What is the Rio Grande?
led a slave revolt at Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown?
two day battle resulting in a Union victory in the West
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
this line separated free states from slave states in the Missouri Compromise
What is the 36'30' line?
the TWO women who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
led the Bear Flag Revolt
Who is John C. Fremont?
Stephen Douglas proposed this in order to appease Southerners when he wanted a transcontinental railroad to go through Chicago
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
railway junction the Union aimed to overtake before heading towards Richmond
What is Manassas Junction?