"Jacksonian"
Missouri ("Compromises")
Manifest Destiny
Mexico, Women, and Race
Sectionalism
100
President Jackson's main action to expand the number of voters in the early 19th century.
He removed property requirements for voting.
100
This law banned slavery above the 36' 30' latitude line.
What is the Missouri Compromise
100
This term is used to describe America's god-given duty to expand westward in the 1800s.
Manifest Destiny
100
Which State was annexed by the US right before the Mexican-American war?
Texas
100
What is another word that describes the divisions between the North and the South during the Antebellum period?
Sectionalism
200
Who succeeded Andrew Jackson as president?
Martin Van Buren
200
One of the first major slave uprisings in America.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
200
What issue contributed to sectionalism in the US during the Antebellum period?
The expansion of slavery
200
This book was written as a response to the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
200
Who was the first Republican president in American history?
Abraham Lincoln
300
This was the primary motivation for the formation of the Whig Party.
What is opposition to President Jackson and Democratic policies?
300
These candidates ran in the northern campaign for president in 1860. (Clue: they also ran for senate and took part in 7 debates against one another)
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?
300
Which technological invention MOST contributed to the expansion of slavery in the 1800s?
The Cotton Gin
300
Which reform movement demanded the suffrage (the vote) as its primary goal?
The Women's Rights Movement
300
The passage of this law led to violence in Kansas over whether the territory should be free or slave.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
400
What was the forced removal of Native Americans to Oklahoma?
Trail of Tears
400
This state was entered as a free state as a part of the Compromise of 1850.
California
400
This term means to withdraw or leave the Union, leading up the Civil War.
Secession
400
These two things sparked tensions (and war) between American settlers and Mexican authorities in the 1820s?
Mexico's outlawing of slavery and it requirement for immigrant to convert to Catholicism.
400
This Supreme Court case stated the Congress DID NOT have the power to prohibit the expansion of slavery into western territories
Dred Scott vs. Sanford (1857)
500
Gave government jobs to supporters even if they were not qualified.
What is the Spoils System?
500
This particular document would have prohibited slavery in any of the territories obtained by Mexico in the Mexican-American war.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
The Fugitive Slave Act did this.
What is forced people to return runaway slaves?
500
Upon meeting this lady, Lincoln said "So you're the little lady that started this great war."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
What concept allowed the people of a given territory to decide on the legality of slavery within that territory?
Popular Sovereignty
600
Leader of the failed rebellion at Harper's Ferry, VA, in 1859.
Who is John Brown: