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Westward Expansion
Sectionalism
A New Nation
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Bekins Bag of Tricks
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Definition: The god given right for Americans to move from the east coast to the West Coast

Manifest Destiny

100

South Carolina secedes following the election of what American president in 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

100
This Founding Father was never present, but is considered the father of the National Bank

Alexander Hamilton

100

This speech freed the slaves in the rebellious states

Emancipation Proclamation

100

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

200

This event was created by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and sent the Cherokee to western reservation lands.

The Trail of Tears

200

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

200

The Father of the Democratic-Republicans AKA the Anti-Federalists

Thomas Jefferson

200

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

200

This political party was formed on the hatred on immigrants and growing nativism

Know Nothing Party

300
This pre-Civil War law said that states would decide whether or not they wanted to be free or slave states based on POPULAR SOVERIGNTY

Kansas Nebraska Act

300

In order to keep the balance of free and slave states, this law creates two new states. 

Missouri Compromise

300

This Supreme Court Case grants the power of Judicial Review to Supreme Court

Marbury v. Madison
300

This is a famous general's strategy of burning down all of the land, buildings, and property between Atlanta and the Atlantic Ocean

Sherman's March to the Sea

300

This term refers to a new type of slavery in which poor, mostly black farmers become indebted to the land owner whose land they were farming and become unable to leave.

Sharecropping

400

This was the slogan for what Americans WANTED to be the border between America and Canada

54'40 OR FIGHT!

400

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

400
Created by Henry Clay, this idea says that the United States should be self sufficient in banking, transportation, and trade

The American System

400

This federal government organization offered education, food, money, and clothing to newly freed slaves

Freedman's Bureau

400

This short time period is characterized by a good economy, general happiness about the ending of the War of 1812, and no foreign policy issues 

The Era of Good Feelings

500

This is the agreement in which America purchased the land that is today the American Southwest from Mexico

Gadsden Purchase

500

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

500
This 1823 foreign policy document states American isolationism and requires Europeans to not get involved in the Western Hemisphere. It is mostly ignored by Europeans

Monroe Doctrine

500

What do the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do?

13th - frees slaves, 14th - citizenship rights for all Americans, 15th - voting rights for black men 

500

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