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Andrew Jackson's supporters used this phrase to describe the outcome of the 1824 presidential election after Henry Clay threw his support to John Quincy Adams in the House of Representatives.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri fell into this special category of slave-holding states that remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War.
What are Border States?
Founded by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison in 1831, this radical anti-slavery newspaper fought for immediate emancipation.
What is The Liberator?
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate forces to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at this location in Virginia, effectively ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Passed in 1820, this legislative agreement maintained the balance of power between free and slave states in the Senate by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Issued on January 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln, this executive order declared free all enslaved people living within Confederate states that had seceded from the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Prior to the Civil War, this region of the United States relied primarily on manufacturing and an industrial economy, while outlawing slavery.
What is the North?
The contested 1876 presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes resulted in this political compromise that ended military rule in the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This Union general won the strategic Battle of Vicksburg in 1863, gaining complete control of the Mississippi River for the Union army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
In this landmark 1857 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that enslaved individuals were legal property.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
Union General William T. Sherman began his destructive "March to the Sea" in late 1864 after capturing and burning this crucial Georgia transportation hub.
What is Atlanta?
Following the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Election of Abraham Lincoln, this April 1861 military engagement officially started the American Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Reconstruction officially came to an end in 1877 when President Rutherford B. Hayes took this action regarding Southern military occupation.
What is removing federal troops from the South?
Although George Washington strongly warned against their development during his presidency, this political dynamic rapidly emerged shortly after he left office.
What are political parties / political alliances?
Following the end of Reconstruction, African Americans in the South experienced a severe decline in rights due to Jim Crow laws and a widespread resurgence of this tactic.
What is racial violence / terrorism / lynchings?
The Mexican-American War fueled intense sectionalism across the U.S. government primarily due to disputes over how newly acquired western territories would handle this issue.
What is the expansion of slavery?
Passed during John Adams's presidency, this controversial legislation suppressed free speech and directly contributed to Thomas Jefferson's victory in the Election of 1800.
What is the Sedition Act?
Established by Congress in 1865, this federal agency was created to provide food, housing, education, and legal aid to formerly enslaved people in the post-Civil War era.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Texas, Georgia, Virginia, and eight other Southern states seceded from the Union to form this new political nation prior to the Civil War.
What is the Confederate States of America (or the Confederacy)?
Settling a long-standing boundary dispute with Great Britain at the 49th parallel, this 1846 treaty added a major region in the Pacific Northwest to the United States.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
Driven by economic instability, Jim Crow laws, and political oppression after Reconstruction, African Americans began leaving this region in increasing numbers.
What is the South?
The majority of military engagements during the War of 1812 occurred in this geographic area because it was closest to the border between British and American territories.
What is the Great Lakes region / Canadian border?
Early in the Civil War, President Lincoln controversially limited civil liberties by suspending this constitutional right, allowing unlawful sympathizers to be detained without trial.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
Giving the Union a major strategic advantage at the start of the Civil War, more than 70 percent of this vital transportation infrastructure was located in the North.
What are railroads?
This 1803 land acquisition almost doubled the physical size of the United States and secured American control over the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?