Jackson & Politics
He was the president who supported the "ordinary citizen" participating in politics by establishing universal white male suffrage.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The movement that worked to end the institution of slavery in the United States, led by leaders like William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
What is abolitionism?
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the entire continent.
What was Manifest Destiny?
This 1830 Act forced Native American tribes to relocate west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This law required all Americans, including Northerners, to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
South Carolina supported these "rights" during the Nullification Crisis when it attempted to nullify tariffs passed by Congress.
What is States' Rights?
This religious revival inspired people to join reform movements like temperance and suffrage.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The name of the territorial region acquired from Mexico in 1848.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This 1831 uprising led by an enslaved preacher caused Southern states to pass much stricter slave codes
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This act led to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Henry Clay's plan for a national bank, protective tariffs, and internal improvements like roads, canals, and railroads to bring unity and economic prosperity to the United States.
What is the American System?
This 1848 meeting was held to advocate for women’s rights and suffrage, and was considered the birthplace of the women's rights movement.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This president was committed to fulfilling the goals of Manifest Destiny.
Who was President James K. Polk?
He led the raid on Harpers Ferry to try and start a slave revolt.
Who is John Brown?
This Supreme Court decision stated that black people could not be citizens, and that slaves would be treated as property, not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Thomas Jefferson did this despite his belief in a "strict" interpretation of the Constitution, doubling the size of the United States and sparking a debate over the expansion of slavery.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The movement to ban or limit the consumption of alcohol, and was especially important to women and their affected spouses and fathers.
What was the temperance movement?
This was built for shipping goods between the West and the East
What was the Eerie Canal?
This term describes the growing political tension and division between the North and South.
What is Sectionalism?
In the Missouri Compromise, this state was allowed to enter as a free state.
What is Maine?
This president established important precedents like being called, "Mr. President," and only serving two terms before stepping down.
Who is George Washington?
This 1787 law created a process for adding new states, banned slavery in the northwest territories, and was considered a strength of the Articles of Confederation.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This territory was disputed between the U.S. and Britain during Polk's presidency.
What was Oregon?
This policy allowed voters in a territory to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was an agreement which included all of the following: California was added as a free state, allowed popular sovereignty to decide whether the slavery question in Utah and New Mexico territories, banned the slave trade in DC, settled the Texas border, and passed the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?