Westward Expansion
Manifest Destiny
South Carolina secedes following the election of what American president in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
British impressment of U.S. merchant ships was a major cause of which conflict between 1800 & 1865?
The War of 1812
The Compromise of 1877 in which Southern Democrats agreed to acknowledge Hayes' presidential victory in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South effectively ended what?
Reconstruction
When African American men get the right to vote following the Civil War, this group of Americans ALSO thought they would get the right to vote
Women
This event was created by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and sent the Cherokee to western reservation lands.
The Trail of Tears
This Supreme Court case said that slaves were not allowed to sue because they - and all black Americans - were not citizens.
Scott v. Sanford, the Dred Scott case
The peaceful transfer of power from Federalists to Democratic-Republicans gave the 1800 election this nickname
The "Revolution" of 1800
These laws were created during and following Reconstruction by southern legislatures in order to keep blacks and whites separate and make life harder for blacks.
Black Codes
This political party was formed on the hatred on immigrants and growing nativism
Know Nothing Party
Kansas Nebraska Act
In order to keep the balance of free and slave states, this 1820 law creates two new states, one free and one slave.
Missouri Compromise
This Supreme Court Case grants the power of Judicial Review to Supreme Court
Created by General Winfield Scott, this was the Union strategy of cutting off all Confederate ports, seizing the Mississippi River, and making it impossible for the south to resupply its military
The Anaconda Plan
This term refers to a new type of near-slavery in which poor, mostly black farmers become indebted to the land owner whose land they were farming and become unable to leave.
Sharecropping
This was the slogan for what Americans WANTED to be the border between America and Canada
54'40 OR FIGHT!
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book tells the story of what it is truly like to be a slave. When Americans read it, some begin to vehemently oppose slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The American System
This federal government organization offered education, food, money, and clothing to newly freed slaves
Freedman's Bureau
Literally meaning "before war", this is the name of the period from 1815-ish to 1860 that saw an increase in sectionalism that led to the Civil War
The Antebellum Period
This is the agreement in which America purchased the land that is today the American Southwest from Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
Southern states were angry about a new tariff law and threatened that they wanted to be able to get rid of any law they wanted. This is also the first discussion of secession.
Nullification Crisis
Monroe Doctrine
These three constitutional amendments in order:
1) freed slaves, 2) gave citizenship, due process, & equal protection to all Americans, and 3) gave voting rights for all men 21+ regardless of race.
13, 14, 15
The movement in which the belief that righteous living, personal restraint, and strong morality could lead a person and society to salvation. Sparked other reform movements such as temperance, prison reform, etc.
The Second Great Awakening