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In his Farewell Address, he warned against "entangling alliances" and political parties.
Who is George Washington?
Jackson’s practice of giving government jobs to his political supporters.
What is the Spoils Systems?
The belief that the US was divinely ordained to expand to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this South Carolina fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This Amendment guaranteed citizenship and "equal protection" to all born in the US.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Thomas Jefferson purchased this massive territory from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1830 law led to the forced removal of Native Americans from the Southeast.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1820 agreement kept the balance of power by admitting Maine and Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
He was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
These Southern laws were designed to keep African Americans in a state of quasi-slavery.
What are Black Codes?
This 1823 policy warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
South Carolina threatened to secede during this crisis over high tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This 1854 Act allowed "popular sovereignty" to decide slavery in new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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This battle remains the bloodiest single day in American history.
What is Antietam?
This agency was established to provide food, clothing, and education to former slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The War of 1812, often called the "Second War of Independence," happened under him.
Who is James Madison?
This "Common Man" president famously shut down the Second Bank of the U.S.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This 1848 treaty gave the US the "Mexican Cession" (CA, NV, UT, AZ).
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
Lincoln suspended this legal right, allowing him to jail protestors without a trial.
What is Habeas Corpus?
He became President after Lincoln's assassination and was later impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The only President in the first five who did not serve two terms.
Who is John Adams?
This Supreme Court case ruled that Georgia could not forcibly move the Cherokee.
What is Worchester v. Georgia?
This Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were property, not citizens, everywhere.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This 1863 Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
This event officially ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?