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War of 1812
Reform Movements
Important People
Andrew Jackson
Compromises
100
The illegal stopping, searching, and removal of sailors from United States ship.
What is Impressment?
100
The social push to moderate or even end the use of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
100
The two sisters who worked for Women's Rights, the freedom of slaves, and were the first female public speakers.
Who are Angelina and Sarah Grimke?
100
Andrew Jackson was a lawyer, judge, U.S. Representative, and?
What is the 7th President of the United States?
100
Maine entered the US as a free state, Missouri entered as a slave state, and slavery was banned north of the 36 degree 30 minute line of latitude.
What is The Missouri Compromise of 1820?
200
The country that impressed American Sailors.
What is Britain?
200
The social movement to end slavery.
What is Abolitionism?
200
The first African-American man to hold a high ranking government office in the United States. He also was an ex-slave who published his own newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
He gained this nickname at the Battle of New Orleans, after the War of 1812 was officially over.
What is "Old Hickory"?
200
States could declare national laws void if the states considered the laws unconstitutional.
What is Nullification or the Nullification Theory?
300
The concept that America had the divine right to expand from the eastern to western coasts of the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny.
300
The two newspapers published to spread the ideology of the abolitionists.
What is The Liberator and The North Star?
300
Gained a reputation for being the most radical of abolitionists but his approach to emancipation stressed nonviolence and passive resistance.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
Jackson‘s side accused his opponent of flattering European royalty and misusing public funds. The opponent accused Jackson of unfaithfulness in his marriage, of massacring Native Americans, of illegally executing convicted soldiers, and of dueling. What are these accusations called?
What is Mud-Slinging?
300
Resolution that failed in congress that required all states from the lands acquired from the Mexican-American war would enter only as free states.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
The people who favored war against Britain before the War of 1812.
Who are War Hawks? Will also accept John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay.
400
Called the "Father of the Common School", advocated for public education for men and women.
Who is Horace Mann?
400
The writer of the Monroe Doctrine.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
400
Where all white men should be free to vote, not just those that owned property
What is Universal Male Suffrage?
400
Required all US citizens to assist in the return of runaway slaves on penalty of large fines or jail.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
500
British Restrictions on American Trade, British policy of impressment, trouble with Native Americans in the west, and to drive the British out of North America.
What are the reasons that the USA went to War with Britain in 1812?
500
These two ladies created the first Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls New York in 1848.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
500
She let hundreds of people to freedom on the underground railroad. Also known as "The American Moses".
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
It set a precedents for rewarding faithful supporters with government jobs. Was created to promote involvement in government but ultimate created an atmosphere of corruption.
What is the Spoil System?
500
California was admitted as a free state, Texas was paid for losing lands west of the Rio Grande, the New Mexico Territory was organized without specific prohibition of slavery, slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C., and passed the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is The Compromise of 1850?