Jacksonian Era
This president was known as the “champion of the common man."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Americans believed that they were meant to expand the United States west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Proposed by Henry Clay, this set of laws attempted to ease tensions between free and slave states in 1850.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott v Sanford?
This election showed the nation was divided, with Lincoln winning without carrying a single Southern state.
What is the election of 1860?
This amendment was passed in 1803 and it states that elector in the Electoral College must choose 2 candidates: one for president and one for vice president.
What is the 12th Amendment?
Both trails became popular and was used by different groups moving west.
What is the Oregon Trail and Santa Fe Trail?
This law increased tensions between the North and South by punishing anyone who helped freedom seekers escape.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
His raid on Harpers Ferry increased tensions between the North and South and made him a martyr to some and a villain to others.
Who is John Brown?
This political party nominated John Bell in the election of 1860. They believed in remaining neutral on the issue of slave.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
This system allowed a president to give government jobs to supporters and friends.
What is the "spoils system"?
Compromise that stated that Missouri would be a slave state, Maine would be a free state, and a new boundary line is set across West.
What is the Missouri Compromise or Compromise of 1820?
Bought from Mexico, this land was important for a railroad route and sparked debate over slavery in new territories.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This attack on the Senate floor showed how violently the nation was divided over slavery.
What is the Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner incident?
This political party nominated John Breckinridge and they believed that slavery should exist in the states and territories.
What is the Southern Democrats?
This bill encouraged all American Indians east of the Mississippi River to leave their homes and move west of the river.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Name the 2 people that became notable from the Texas War for Independence.
David Crockett (The Alamo) and Sam Houston (Battle of San Jacinto)
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and led to violent conflict in Kansas over slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This senator supported letting settlers in new territories vote on whether to allow slavery, a principle called popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This political party nominated Stephen Douglas and they were pro slavery and believed in the idea of popular sovereignty.
What is the Northern Democrats?
This crisis began when South Carolina claimed it could ignore a federal tariff law.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The states that we gained from the Mexican-American War
What is California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona?
Published in 1852, this book helped many Northerners oppose slavery and angered many in the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Lincoln's famous speech during the Senate debates in 1858. "A house divided against itself cannot stand" is the famous quote that comes from this speech.
What is a "House Divided" speech?
The first state to secede from the Union after Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860.
What is South Carolina?