Early 1800's
This purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the U.S
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The U.S. declared war in 1812 mainly because the British did this to American ships.
What is seizing American merchant ships?
George Washington set this precedent by refusing to serve more than two terms.
What is the two-term limit?
This society worked to ban alcohol to improve society.
What is the American Temperance Society?
This belief justified U.S. territorial expansion, saying God supported it.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1807 act stopped all American exports, hurting business.
What is the Embargo Act?
The treaty that ended the War of 1812, signed in 1814, is called this
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
What was Thomas Jefferson
William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and the Grimke Sisters used their voices and stories to fight against slavery, and were known as this.
What are abolitionists?
This compromise maintained a balance of power between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This religious movement increased abolitionist support in the Antebellum period.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This expedition to the Pacific was to map the newly acquired U.S. territory after the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
This era during Monroe’s presidency was known for national unity after the War of 1812.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
John Brown is known for this anti-slavery action.
What is leading raids against slavery in Harpers Ferry and Kansas?
This war in the 1840's created tension over whether new territories would allow slavery.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is known for promoting this cause
What is women's rights (women's suffrage)?
This 1832 crisis centered on southern opposition to tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Jacksonian Democracy extended voting rights primarily to this group.
Who are all adult white males?
The efficiency of southern plantations made owners economically dependent on this.
What is slave labor?
The admission of Maine alongside Missouri was significant to keep this balanced.
What is the balance of power in Congress?
This doctrine told Europe the Western Hemisphere was closed to colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This timeline shows causes of what?
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857 Dred Scott decision
1859 John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry, VA
1860 Election of Abraham Lincoln/ Secession of South Carolina
What is Causes of the Civil War?
This controversial law, passed under President Adams, was seen as violating constitutional rights.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This Supreme Court decision stated slaves were property, not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This major cause of sectional tension involved disagreements over slavery in new territories. (It's putting the interests of your region above the country as a whole).
What is sectionalism?