Early Republic & Presidents
What is George Washington's precedent of having a group of advisors to assist the president?
What is establishing a cabinet?
This 1820 agreement was an attempt to preserve the balance between the number of free and slave states in Congress.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The movement that, influenced by the Second Great Awakening, encouraged people to abstain from drinking alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
The Thirteenth Amendment specifically enacted this measure.
What is forbade the practice of slavery in any and all parts of the U.S.?
This organization, founded in 1866, quickly became known for its violence and intimidation.
What is The Ku Klux Klan?
This is what Thomas Jefferson did to expand the powers of the presidency, even though he had doubts about its constitutionality.
Louisiana Purchase
This term describes the second leg of the sea voyage that brought African slaves to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments, which stated that man "has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.
What is women's right to vote?
Lincoln insisted that suspending habeas corpus was necessary for this purpose.
What is preserve the Union?
One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to prevent violence between these two groups.
What is to prevent violence between Confederate veterans and formerly enslaved people?
The two ways the Federalist Party used the Alien and Sedition Acts to control national politics.
What are restricting people's ability to criticize the government and making it harder for immigrants to participate in the political process?
The agreement that determined enslaved persons in each state would be counted as three-fifths of a person for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
James Polk's 1844 campaign slogan, "Fifty-four Forty or Fight," was about the United States taking ownership of this territory.
What is Oregon?
The outcome of these two battles had significant impacts on Confederate supply lines because one destroyed a major transportation hub and the other secured control of the Mississippi River
What are the Battle of Atlanta and the Battle of Vicksburg?
This group would have most strongly supported the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What are congressional Republicans?
The effect of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 on American politics.
What is Andrew Jackson became a national hero, paving the way for his eventual presidency?
The plan Congress passed in response to rising tensions over slavery after the Mexican Cession.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The principle from the Enlightenment that can be found in the Declaration of Independence
What are natural rights?
Both demonstrated exceptional military leadership and strategic skill.
What is the relative skills of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson ?
In his Nullification Proclamation, Andrew Jackson famously called the act of a state resisting federal law an "absurdity," thereby refuting the Southern argument that this was paramount to the Federal Government.
What is States' Rights are more important than the Federal Government ?
Andrew Jackson was opposed to a national bank because he believed it favored these interests.
What are the interests of the wealthy?
The provision of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that led to a violent clash between pro- and anti-slavery groups (Bleeding Kansas)
What is new states would use popular sovereignty to determine if slavery would be permitted?
The system of transatlantic trade in the 1600s, exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods, and enslaved people arose from England’s mercantilist approach to controlling colonial commerce and maximizing profit across its empire.
What is mercantilism?
This is the commonality between the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
What is each intensified debates surrounding slavery and pushed the nation closer to civil war?
This is the three precedents set by George Washington during his presidency
What is limiting the presidency to two terms, maintaining neutrality in foreign affairs, and creating cabinet?