Manifest Destiny
The territory that Thomas Jefferson purchased for the United States.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
Dred Scott sued the federal government because of this compromise.
What is The Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820?
Congress passed this act during Jackson's presidency, moving multiple Native American tribes West of the Mississippi River.
What is Indian Removal Act?
The term for a person that wanted to destroy the institution of slavery (ex. Douglass, Garrison).
What is abolitionist?
This side of the Civil War had many advantages such as industrial capacity and transportation.
What is the Union/the North?
While America was expanding West, this warned Europeans from interfering with the Western Hemisphere.
What is The Monroe Doctrine?
This act allowed for popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska territories.
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is the name for the horrific journey taken by Native Americans during Jackson's presidency.
What is The Trail of Tears?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This allows the government to detain individuals without charge or immediate judicial review.
What is the suspension of habeas corpus?
This conflict was fought between the US and Britain, in part due to the Embargo Acts. By winning, the US eliminated the British as an obstacle to expanding West.
What is The War of 1812?
This compromise admitted California as a free state, and made the Fugitive Slave Law more strict.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
When Jackson ran for president the first time, many of his supporters could not vote because they lacked this.
What is land/property?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented this document at the Seneca Falls Convention.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
This conflict was the result of Texas being annexed by the United States.
What is The Mexican-American War?
These resolutions were authored by Jefferson and Madison as a form of political protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts.
What is The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
Jackson vetoed a charter for this entity, making his feelings similar to those of Thomas Jefferson (but not Alexander Hamilton...).
What is The Second Bank of the United States?
This term means the elimination of alcohol consumption.
What is temperance?
Lincoln gave this speech in Pennsylvania to dedicate the Soldiers' National Cemetery during the Civil War.
Pride in and loyalty to one's nation.
What is Nationalism?
Worcester v. Georgia ruled that Georgia didn't have the right to enforce laws on this group/nation.
What is The Cherokee (or Native Americans)?
President Andrew Jackson threatened military action in this state due to the Nullification Crisis, stating that their actions were treasonous.
What is South Carolina?
This was the most impactful slave rebellion in the United State leading up to the Civil War.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This term is part of the TISSUES acronym. It explains what the Southern states did to form the Confederacy.
What is secession/secede?