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Jefferson and Jackson Administrations
Antebellum North and Manifest Destiny
Antebellum South
The Road to Fort Sumter
Civil War
100
They were Muslim states in North Africa that demanded tribute
What were the Barbary States?
100

This is the idea in the early Republican party that free people, not slaves, worked, and that labor should not be denigrated.

What is dignity of labor?

100
This invention radically transformed the South's economy.
What is the cotton gin?
100
This idea proposed barring slavery from the West.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This resulted in the doubling of the United States overnight.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200

He coined the phrase "Go West, young man!" in a newspaper editorial.

Who was Horace Greeley?

200
These slaves made up the majority of the work on the plantation
What are the field workers?
200
This is the idea that the people in a territory could choose whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
This was the general strategy of the Union, which included gaining control of the Mississippi, blockading the South, and attacking Georgia.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
The Tariff of Abominations centered around this idea that states do not have to follow federal law.
What is nullification?
300

The forced movement of 5 tribes from the southeast to what became Oklahoma.

What is the Trail of Tears?

300
This crop made up 80 percent of US exports by 1860.
What is cotton?
300
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300

This faction in the North that were prosouthern.

Who were the copperheads?

400
This law, signed in 1807, cut off US trade with all countries, which shattered the economy.
What is the Embargo Act?
400
This area refers to the Pacific Northwest and part of British Columbia.
What is the Oregon Country?
400
This is the idea that the master was the "father" and the slaves were the "children".
What is paternalism?
400
The Supreme Court ruled in this case that slaves were not US citizens and could not sue for their rights.
What is the Dred Scott case?
400
This economic system replaced slavery as the source of labor in the South after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
500
He was the director of the Bank of the United States who challenged Jackson.
Who was Nicholas Biddle?
500
This treaty ended the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500

Antiquated system the South used to rationalize the benefits of slavery.

What is feudal system?

500
Under this compromise, California was admitted as a free state and that there would be a strong Fugitive Slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500

The president elected in 1856 that was not able to prevent the Civil War.

Who is James Buchanan?