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Early 19th Century
Antebellum North and Manifest Destiny
Antebellum South
The Road to Fort Sumter
Civil War and Reconstruction
100
Political party of Thomas Jefferson
What was the Democratic-Republicans?
100
The nickname of settlers that rushed to California to find gold.
Who were the '49ers?
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
The belief that God granted Americans the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What was Manifest Destiny?
200
The south was reliant on slave labor for the production of ____.
cotton, tobacco, or cash crops
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 removal of Native Americans from South Carolina, Georgia and other parts of the south.
What was the Trail of Tears?
300
This crop made up 80 percent of US exports by 1860.
What is cotton?
300
The bloody conflict that was caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
300
This faction wanted to punish the South for causing the Civil War.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
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
Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that sparked an abolitionist outcry.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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
The forcing of American sailors in to the British Navy
What was impressment?
500
This treaty ended the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
Leader of a slave rebellion in Virginia that led to stricter slave laws.
Who was Nat Turner?
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
After he was elected in 1876, he took out the last troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?