Louisiana Purchase
In 1801, this European nation regained control of Louisiana from Spain, alarming Federalists in the United States.
What is France?
In August 1814, the British set fire to this important U.S. building during their attack on Washington, D.C.
What is the Executive Mansion (White House)?
Giving government jobs to political supporters.
What was the Spoils System?
Some examples of this are slowing work, breaking tools, preserving culture.
What are everyday ways enslaved people resisted?
This is what caused the Lowell Mill Strike.
What are wage cuts and poor working conditions.
This is the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand west to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This western territory entered the Union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
This abolitionist author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, sparking national debate over slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This federal agency provided food, medical care, and education to formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
“This level of government requires citizens to follow city ordinances such as noise rules, curfews, and pet regulations.
What is local government?
Livingston and Monroe agreed to purchase all of Louisiana for this amount—about 828,000 square miles of land.
What is $15 million?
This battle inspired Francis Scott Key to write a poem that later became the U.S. national anthem.
What is the Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD?
This legal principle was established in Marbury v. Madison.
What is Judicial review?
This Caribbean revolution inspired enslaved people across the Americas?
What is the The Haitian Revolution?
These were two legal limitations women faced in the 1800s.
What are not owning property and voting?
In 1820, this state was admitted to the Union as a slave state under the Missouri Compromise.
What is Missouri?
This controversial law required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people and punished those who refused.”
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This institution is portrayed as morally destructive and inhumane throughout Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
What is slavery?
These three constitutional amendments ended slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights for African Americans.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th, or Reconstruction Amendments?
All male U.S. citizens must register for this national requirement when they turn 18.
What is selective service?
Alexander Hamilton, of this political faction, argued that settling the vast Louisiana territory would weaken this part of the U.S. government.
What is the Federalists?
Andrew Jackson became a national hero after winning this major battle—fought after the peace treaty was already signed.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
South Carolina tried to nullify federal tariffs they believed were unfair.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This is why was Denmark Vesey’s rebellion stopped before it began.
What is two men revealed the plan, leading to mass arrests.
This is the document the Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
To keep the balance in the Senate, this New England territory was admitted as a free state.
What is Maine?
This principle allowed Utah and New Mexico to decide the issue of slavery by voting.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This is the year that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin intensified Northern opposition to allowing slavery to expand into western territories and Florida.
What is 1852?
Southern states passed these restrictive laws to limit the freedom of African Americans and control their labor after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
Citizens must pay taxes at the local, state, and national levels because these funds support different services, such as schools, roads, and the military.
What is fund the government?
Federalists like Rufus King questioned whether the President could do this through a treaty.
What is force Congress to accept new land/states?
British support for Native resistance and this issue were two major causes leading to the War of 1812.
What is impressment?
This Supreme Court case tried to protect the Cherokee from removal.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
David Walker published this writing, urging enslaved people to fight for freedom.
What is Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?
This is the location voting rights, property rights, equal education, and legal equality were openly advocated for.
What is Seneca Falls, NY?
The Missouri Compromise banned slavery north of this latitude line (except Missouri).
What is 36 30N?
The Compromise of 1850 officially ended the slave trade in this capital city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
These people argued that Stowe’s novel was inaccurate and unfair, claiming it misrepresented this region’s ‘way of life.’
Who are southerners?
This congressional plan divided the South into military districts to enforce new laws and protect African American rights.
What is Congressional (Radical Republican) Reconstruction?
This civic obligation exists at both the state and national levels to ensure fair trials and protect due process.
What is jury duty?
Federalists believed the Louisiana Purchase would shift political power in dangerous ways regarding this major issue.
What is slavery and representation?
The War of 1812 boosted American nationalism and weakened these group of people's resistance in the Northwest Territory.
Who are Native American Indians?
The forced removal of the Cherokee to Indian Territory, causing thousands of deaths.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This is what happened after Nat Turner’s Rebellion.
What are harsh new slave laws, widespread retaliation, and restrictions on Black people.
This is how early activism (Like Lowell and Seneca Falls) shaped later women's rights movements?
What are women organized, protested, and demanded fair treatment?
Although it delayed conflict, this 1820 agreement highlighted this type of growing divisions between the North and South over slavery.
What is Sectionalism?
Although it delayed conflict, the Compromise of 1850 deepened mistrust between North and South, especially over enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, increasing this.
What is the Sectionalism?
This is how Uncle Tom’s Cabin shaped Americans’ interpretations of key events leading up to the Civil War—especially debates over slavery in new territories.
What is the cruelty of slavery?
Historians argue that this interpretation of Reconstruction explains why a period that expanded citizenship, voting rights, and federal protections for African Americans also paved the way for decades of segregation, racial violence, and the rise of these laws of segregation?
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Citizens must do this—even when the rules differ at each level.
What is obey the law?