Jacksonian Democracy
Who do we credit for creating the American System, Missouri Compromise of 1820, Compromise Tariff of 1833, and Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
Which 19th-century movement aimed at limiting the amount of alcohol consumed by the industrial workforce?
Temperance
The completion of this project in 1825 helped make New York City the economic center of the US:
The Erie Canal
What helped southerners reduce the ease by which slaves were escaping to the North in the 1840s and 50s?
The Fugitive Slave Act
What treaty ended the Mexican War, giving the US all or part of seven future states?
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
What law passed by Jackson relocated the Cherokee natives to Oklahoma?
The Indian Removal Act
"The trail of tears"
Which movement was aimed at ending slavery?
Abolition
Which president was successful in annexing Oregon and Texas and defeated Mexico to give the US control of the rest of the southwest?
James K. Polk
Who seized a federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, VA, attempting to arm slaves for a revolt?
John Brown
What did Congress decide to use in Kansas and Nebraska to determine slave status in each territory?
Popular Sovereignty
What event led to the resignation of Jackson’s vice president, South Carolina threatening to secede from the Union, and Jackson threatening to use the military to collect taxes?
The Nullification Crisis
Who was the father of the public education movement in the US?
Horace Mann
California entered US as a free state.
New Mexico to use popular sovereignty to decide slave status.
Slave trade abolished in Washington DC.
Fugitive Slave Act passed.
The list above describes what?
The Compromise of 1850
List two things that made slavery WORSE in the South in the 1800s.
(Hint: One is a physical thing, the other is an event)
Nat Turner
The Cotton Gin
Why was Lincoln’s election in 1860 a sign to southerners that their voices did not matter in national politics?
Lincoln's name wasn't on the ballot in most southern states
More people lived in the North than the South
List 2 out of 3 aspects of the American system
Govt. funded infrastructure
Protective tariffs
National Bank
What was the goal of the Second Great Awakening?
Targeting "Social Ills" in society
What does the term Manifest Destiny mean?
"Obvious Fate"
It is America's fate to expand from "sea to shining sea"
What TWO things did the supreme court rule in Dredd Scott V Sanford?
The 36'30 line was unconstitutional (There is no such thing as a free state)
Blacks (free or enslaved) could not be citizens
What nickname was given to Kansas as a result of the failure of popular sovereignty in the 1850s?
"Bleeding Kansas"
List the 3 aspects of Jacksonian Democracy
Strong Executive Branch
Spoils System
Universal Male Suffrage
Where was the first conference to discuss women’s rights in the US held?
Seneca Falls Convention 1848
What were the THREE parts of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Missouri enters as a slave state
Maine is created as a free state
The 36'30 line is created
This bill, passed right after the Mexican war in the House but failed in the Senate, scared southernors by showing them the north was willing to ban slavery in all new territories of the US. What was it called?
The Wilmot-Proviso
What river became the border of Texas and Mexico following the Mexican War?
The Rio-Grande river