The Early Republic
This is the year the War of 1812 took place.
When was 1812?
The Indian Removal act was passed under the auspices of this president.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This state fought for their independence from Mexico.
What is Texas?
This book changed the minds of many northerners on slavery.
What was Uncle Tom's cabin?
This was the direct reason that the southern states secceded in 1860.
What was the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This doctrine forbade any new expansion by European powers into the New World.
What was Monroe Doctrine?
This belief cemented the idea that women stayed at home, and men went to work.
What was Seperate Spheres ideology?
This territory was disputed between the United States and Great Britian.
What was the Oregon Territory?
The person was apart of Bleeding Kansas, and launched the raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
This act freed the slaves in Confederate occupied territories.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This court case established juditial review.
What was Marbury v. Madison?
This was a religious change that wanted to legislate morals, not just preach them.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
This was the main party opposed to the Democrats untin the 1850s, where they collapsed on the slavery issue.
What were the Whigs?
This court case established that Black were not citizens, nor could they ever be.
What was the Dred Scott court case?
This was a famous speech given by Lincoln
What was the Gettysburg Address?
In 1803, this happened.
What were the Louisina Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition?
This is why Jackson targeted the Banks in the Bank war.
What was he wanted to win reelection without his opponet getting funds?
This was an ideology that planters based their rule on.
(In this specific case, white supremacy is not the answer)
What was Paternalism?
This is what the Second Fugitive Slave Act meant.
What was slaveowners can now go into free states to look for escaped slaves, and force northerners to help them out, or else they have to pay a heafty fine?
This is what the Union Government's official reason for fighting was, and this is what the Confederate government's official reason for fighting was.
What was preserving the Union/abolition, preserving the institution of slavery?
The Adams-Onis treaty established this.
What is the US got Flordia, but gave up cliams in Texas and Cuba?
This was the 2nd Nullification Crisis.
What was South Carolina declaring certian tarrifs unconstitutional in the state?
This was the difference between Anti-Slavery and Abolitionism.
What was Anti-Slavery wanted them to be free, Abolitionists wanted to help them out afterwards?
These were the two main things that the Compromise of 1850 were about.
What was California is to enter as a free state on its own, and the Second Fugitive Slave act is passed, popular sovereignty now possible?
Name three important civil war battles:
What were Shiloh, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Appomattox Courthouse?