What was established to promote domestic manufacturing and limit foreign competition?
What is Protective Tariff
100
This idea gave hope to both pro and anti-slavery groups and was proposed by Lewis Cass of Michigan.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
Had a strong navy, had almost four times as many freed citizens, and was an industrial power.
What are Northern advantages in the Civil War
100
This is the belief that natural born citizens should be favored over foreign immigrants
What is nativism?
100
Assimilation
What is the main purpose of the Dawes Act?
200
What doctrine was established to discourage European interference in Central and South America?
What is Monroe Doctrine
200
This legislation admitted CA as a free state, abolished the DC slave trade, and established a new border for TX.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
Had few factories to make weapons, had few railroads to transport goods and soldiers, and more than one third of the population was enslaved
What are Southern disadvantages in the Civil War
200
This is a civil service act that made people take a test in order to get a state position.
What is the Pendleton Act?
200
Battle of Wounded Knee
What battle ended Native American resistance?
300
What system was prevented with civil service exams prior to obtaining a job in the federal government?
What is Spoils Systems
300
Act that restricted northerners from assisting an escaped slave and could result in a fine or imprisonment for anyone who did so.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
1. U.S. blockade southern ports
2. Divide Confederacy in two
3. Five hundred thousand man army to Richmond
What was the three part plan in the Civil War.
300
In this system, farmers ended up in a circle of debt.
What is tenant farming?
300
Cattle ranching
What did barbed wires, bad crop conditions, and railroads lead to?
400
What is the concept that federal laws can be rejected by states if they regard the law as beyond the power of the Constitution?
What is the Theory of Nullification
400
John Brown led his posse to break into a federal arsenal to steel guns that would be used to arm African Americans in a revolt against Southern slave owners.
What is Harpers Ferry?
400
Abraham Lincoln
What president wanted gradual emancipation in the South?
400
This act was made permanent in 1902 and later repealed in 1943.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
Mormons
Who settled Utah?
500
What was the treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S.?
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty
500
Lincoln said "So this is the little woman who caused this great war" when he met this woman
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
What is Sherman's March to the Sea
This Civil War era military maneuver crossed through Georgia and left only burnt land in its path.
500
This act was an attempt to regulate railroad rates and was ineffective.