Individuals
This individual was the first person to be elected president twice in a row.
Who was George Washington?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was the political party of Andrew Jackson.
What is the Democratic Party?
This idea argued that people have the ultimate authority to decide the laws in their territory.
What is popular sovereignty?
This man escaped from slavery and became a famous abolitionist speaker. He founded a newspaper called "The North Star."
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This 1830 law required the forced displacement of Native Americans from their home territories to reservations west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This was the first skirmish of the Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This was the party of Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Republican Party?
This 19th-century belief argued that it was America's divine mission to expand across the continent, bringing civilization, technology, and democracy.
What is Manifest Destiny?
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This person was an early leader of Jamestown and helped save it from failure by instilling order, discipline, and work requirements.
Who was John Smith?
This law organized the former Confederate states into 5 military districts and allowed for the U.S. military to be placed there to ensure compliance with new civil rights laws.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This final major battle of the War of 1812 was actually fought weeks after the final treaty which ended it.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
This political party, which faded by the 1820s, supported a stronger role for the central government over state governments.
What is the Federalist Party?
This idea argues that states have the ultimate authority to decide whether a federal law is constitutional or not.
What is nullification theory?
This person is credited as the architect of major compromises regarding slavery. He was a leader of the Whig Party.
Who was Henry Clay?
These Federalist laws placed heavy restrictions on naturalization of immigrants and criticism of the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
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This was the final major battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
What is the Whig Party?
This idea argues in favor of system of shared powers between state and central governments.
What is federalism?
This individual is often called "The Father of the Constitution."
Who was James Madison?
This is the law which Andrew Johnson was impeached for violating.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
This battle secured the Union's control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This single-issue party sought the complete abolition of slavery.
What was the Liberty Party?
This economic theory, influential in early colonial America, emphasized the accumulation of gold and silver and the establishment of a favorable balance of trade.
What is mercantilism?