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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Formed before the Civil War and was anti-slavery. Temporarily dominated US politics after Civil War | Republicans |
| All were examples of government compromises that actually spread slavery further in country | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Henry Clay's compromise to end the nullification crisis | Nullification Compromise |
| Act that helped slave owner's recover their runaway slaves fro the North | Fugitive Slave Act |
| Law that a person could claim 160 acres of land I the Western Territories | Homestead Act |
| Indian policy that broke up reservation into individual land plots | Dawes Act |
| Land grant that established agricultural universities (A&M) | Morrill Act |
| preserved balance of free & slave states and said Congress would not regulate slavery in territories | Compromise of 1850 |
| Missouri slave state and Main free-no slavery N and West of 26 30 parallel | Missouri Compromise |
| Established a system of orderly expansion and how territory becomes a state | Northwest Ordinance |
| Said Africans Americans were not citizens of the U.S., Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and increased sectional differences | Dred Scott v Sanford |
| Cherokee Nation sued Georgia to keep their lands and won, but they were removed by Jackson anyway | Worcester v. Georgia |
| Said that federal government had the power to regulated trade between states | Gibbons v. Ogden |
| Said that a state could not tax a national bank; increased the power of the national government | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| Said that the Supreme Court had right to review all laws made by Congress; established the idea of Judicial Review | Marbury v. Madison |
| One of the most influential Supreme Court Justices - he helped establish judicial review | John Marshall |
| Political party dedicated to stopping the Expansion of Slavery | Free Soil Party |
| Group who opposed Jackson's policies - helped support states rights and Henry Clay's American System | Whig Party |
| Began with the election in 1828 of Andrew Jackson | Democratic Party |
| Believe in strong national government; high tariffs; support of industry (John Adams and Alexander Hamilton) | Federalist Party |
| Inventor of the steel plow | John Deere |
| Inventor of the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
| Painter or birds and other wildlife. Authored Birds of American | John James Audubon |
| 7th President - hero at battle of New Orleans; ordered Trail of Tears and supported power of the national government | Andrew Jackson |
| Representative and Senator in Congress. Know for debates against Haynes & Calhoun on topics of states' rights | Daniel Webster |
| 6th president - member of Congress & favored strong nationalism against state's rights and opposed the pro-slavery messages of Calhoun | John Quincy Adams |
| Journalism; his trial helped establish idea of freedom of the press | John Peter Zenger |
| invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney |
| writer and poet; popularized the idea of freedom of transcendentalism | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| reformer who fought to improve the care of mentally ill | Dorothea Dix |
| known as "The Great Compromiser" created the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay |
| Vice President of U.S.; created a Doctrine of Nullification which said that a state could decide if a law was constitutional | John C. Calhoun |
| Militant abolitionist who led raid at Harper's Ferry | John Brown |
| Amendment that allowed former slaves the right to vote | 15th amendment |
| amendment that is know as 'civil rights' amendment, equal protection | 14th amendment |
| amendment that freed all slaves | 13th amendment |
| Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Grant - officially ended the Civil War | Appomattox |
| Important Union victory - Pickett's Charge was turning point of battle - Lincoln gave address here in honor of the dead | Gettysburg |
| single bloodiest battle of the Civil War | Antietam |
| forced the Union army to retreat - Stonewall Jackson became strong General for South - first battle with bloodshed | Bull Run |
| first shots of The Civil War | Fort Sumter |
| US will not allow any European country to create new colonies in Western Hemisphere. US will not intervene in European affairs and they shouldn't intervene in ours. | Monroe Doctrine |
| Idea that many people as possible should be allowed a voice in the Democratic system | Jacksonian Democracy |
| Requiring Native Americans to relocate to the Indian Territory | Indian Removal Act |
| The state had the right to nullify any law passed by the federal governement if the state deems it unconstitutional | Doctrine of Nullification |
| Jackson disliked the bank and didn't renew the charter and caused the Panic of 1837 | War on the Bank |
| Encouraged no political parties and isolationism in foreign policy | George Washington' s Farewell Address |
| French diplomats tried to bribe US- "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute" | XYZ Affair (President John Adams) |
| targets immigrants from other countries and made it harder to become a US citizen and discrimination is easier | Alien and Sedition Acts (President John Adams) |
| court case that established Judicial Review | Marbury v Madison (President Thomas Jefferson) |
| doubled the size of the US | Louisiana Purchase (President Thomas Jefferson) |
| restricted trade to any country | Embargo Act of 1807 (President Thomas Jefferson) |
| US earned worldwide respect and helped spark the Industrial Revolution | War of 1812 (President James Madison) |
| First battle of American Revolution/Revolutionary War | Lexington and Concord |
| Turning point of American Revolution/Revolutionary War because it influenced foreign nations to support America in the war | Saratoga |
| Last major battle of the Revolutionary War | Yorktown |
| First permanent settlement | Jamestown 1607 |
| Mayflower compact was written and Plymouth established | 1620 |
| American listed grievances to England and Declared Independence | 1776 |
| When the constitutional Convention me to rewrite constitution as a result of Articles of Confederation giving states too much power | 1787 |
| The years the union fought against the confederacy over the issue of slavery and states' rights | 1861-1865 |
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