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Party in the USA
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Reconstruction
100
Apr 12, 1861 – Apr 9, 1865
What is the American Civil War?
100
This court case, brought under Thomas Jefferson's presidency, established Judicial Review.
What is Marbury vs Madison?
100
This political party of Thomas Jefferson was opposed to a strong federal government.
Who are the Democratic-Republicans?
100
Pictured here, she was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and a proponent of women's suffrage, giving a speech asking, "ain't I a woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
100
After conceding defeat, Robert E. Lee offers his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, at which historic site in Virginia?
What is the Appomattox Court House?
200
This war saw the exit of foreign troops in the country, and finally helped the United States shore up its borders, and would eventually helped seat a war hero as President after his victory at the Battle of New Orleans. 
What is the War of 1812?
200
The United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act against the U.S.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
200
Founded in 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, this is the world's oldest active political party, and before 1860 it supported limited government and state sovereignty.
What is the Democratic Party?
200
Pictured here, he arrived at the White House on a hot day in August 1863 without an appointment. He was a black man on a mission at a time when the country was torn by Civil War.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
This term refers to Northerners accused of parasitically gaining power and profit at the expense of the South.
What is a carpetbagger?
300
Under the "Great Negotiator" Henry Clay, this passage of this in 1850 would temporarily staunch the issue of slavery in new territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
These restrictive laws were designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
What are Black Codes (Jim Crow)?
300
This political party was formed in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery into the Western Territories, namely the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Republican Party?
300
Pictured here, this General determined to win the South, was ready to "make Georgia howl".
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
Created to support freed slaves, education was its biggest success.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
This failed proposal in 1846 was intended to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
The passage of the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution overturned this Supreme Court decision which at that point further pushed the issue of Slavery.
What is Dred Scot?
400
This political party, led by Henry Clay, favored an activist economic program known as the American System, which called for a protective tariff, federal subsidies for the construction of infrastructure, and support for a national bank.
Who are the Whigs?
400
Pictured here, he was a printer, newspaper publisher, radical abolitionist, suffragist, and civil rights activist.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
The compromise admitted California to the United States as a “free” (no slavery) state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Part of the Compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act, which proved highly unpopular in the North.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
This act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a slave power conspiracy. It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to the slaver and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
This was the temporary name used by the Republican Party and elements of other parties for the national ticket in the 1864 presidential election that was held during the Civil War. The temporary name was used to attract War Democrats, border state voters, and Unconditional Unionist and Unionist Party members who might otherwise have not voted for the Republican Party.
What is the National Union Party?
500
This picture of Abraham Lincoln was taken by the most famous photographer of the Civil War the first large and prolonged conflict recorded by photography.
Who is Matthew Brady?
500
His election in 1860 was the impetus for the Civil War because Southerners believed he would make laws that would eliminate or limit slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?