Eras/Beliefs
People & Politics
The Institution of Slavery
War
Political Cartoons
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This belief of 19th Century held that Americans had a divine right and destiny to settle across North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, bringing technology and progress.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
This constitutional "check" allows the president to prevent congressional bills from becoming laws, used by Andrew Jackson to prevent the recharter of Alexander Hamilton's National Bank.
What is the Veto?
200
This invention by Eli Whitney resulted in a massive increase in cotton profits, leading to an increased demand for slave labor.
What is the Cotton Gin?
200
This "rematch" between the United States and Great Britain resulted in the total destruction of Washington, DC and the creation of the National Anthem.
What is the War of 1812?
200
The political cartoon below referenced this historical event:
What is the Mexican-American War?
400
Americans in the 1800's believed that foreign immigrants and their children, especially from Ireland, Germany, and China were inferior to native-born Anglo-Americans.
What is Nativism?
400
This Congressional Law made it legal to remove Native Americans from their homes, sending them to a reservation in Oklahoma, and creating a genocide known as the "Trail of Tears."
What is the Indian Removal Act?
400
A network of safe houses and trails was used by runaway slaves and "conductors" to lead those escaping the institution of slavery to freedom in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
The rallying cry of this war, "Remember the Alamo!" ignores the real motivation for the conflict, slavery, resulting in the creation of an independent republic for a future US state.
What is the Texas Revolution?
400
The political cartoon below criticizes this United States President:
Who is Andrew Jackson?
600
This period in American History was characterized by a new sense of National unity and patriotism after the War of 1812 and strong growth in the American economy as a result of the National Bank.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
600
This type of political campaigning relies on the spread of false or half-true information to paint an opposing candidate in a negative light.
What is mudslinging?
600
These Congressional laws made it legal to kidnap both enslaved people who had escaped slavery and free black people.
What are the Fugitive Slave Acts?
600
This war was started by President James K. Polk in order to acquire the territories of California and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
600
The political cartoon below highlights this 19th Century belief system:
What is Nativism?
800
Andrew Jackson believed that all American citizens, as long as they were white men, should have the right to vote, also known as this.
What is suffrage?
800
This system of firing government officials and replacing them with friends of the President of the United States is also known as patronage.
What is the Spoils System?
800
This Supreme Court decision held that the State of Pennsylvania could not prevent bounty hunters from kidnapping freed black slaves, placing them into slavery in the south.
What is Prigg v. Pennsylvania?
800
This future American President made his name in the War of 1812 as a general in the battle of New Orleans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
800
The political cartoon below criticizes this United States President:
Who is James K. Polk?
1000
This era of American History was defined by people moving to the frontiers of America, also known as the Age of Jackson.
What is the era of the Common Man?
1000
As Secretary of State under Thomas Jefferson, this future President was sued by John Marbury for denying him a job as a federal judge, setting up a landmark case that established Judicial Review.
Who is Madison?
1000
While Slave States were states where Slavery was legal, these states were states where Slavery was illegal.
What are Free States?
1000
In order to force congress to declare war on Mexico, President James K. Polk sent calvary into disputed territory bordering this US State.
What is Texas?
1000
The political cartoon below references this 19th Century foreign policy which is still in effect today:
What is the Monroe Doctrine?