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USH NEW NATION
New Nation and the Coming of the Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| first president of the United States | George Washington |
| advisors to the president | cabinet |
| limiting federal government to powers expressly noted in the Constitution | strict construction |
| political party that believed in strong central government; Alexander Hamilton's party | Federalists |
| political party that believed in states' rights and a weak federal government; Thomas Jefferson's party | Democratic Republicans |
| tax put on products made within a nation | excise tax |
| warned Americans against sectionalism; political parties; alliances | Washington |
| Congressional acts that allowed imprisonment of aliens (foreigners) and made it illegal to criticize the government | Alien & Sedition Acts |
| power of Supreme Court to decide whether acts of president or Congress are unconstitutional | judicial review |
| the 1803 purchase of a vast tract of land west of the Mississippi River from France (under Thomas Jefferson) | Louisiana Purchase |
| these men mapped the Louisiana Territory | Lewis & Clark |
| war between United States and Great Britain concerning seizing of US merchant ships and impressment of US sailors | War of 1812 |
| poem (later a song) by Frances Scott Key that commemorates Battle of Fort McHenry (War of 1812) | Star Spangled Banner |
| a tax on imported goods; led to Nullification Crisis | tariff |
| taxes on imported goods that are levied so that foreign goods will cost more than domestic goods | protective tariffs |
| treaty with Spain that allowed United States to acquire Florida | Adams-Onis Treaty |
| president's statement to Congress concerning foreign policy of US; warned Europeans not to interfere in Latin America | Monroe Doctrine |
| president who was the hero of New Orleans (War of 1812) | Andrew Jackson |
| "Five Civilized Tribes" | Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole |
| forced march of Native Americans to Indian Country (Oklahoma) | Trail of Tears |
| Missouri admitted as a slave state; Maine admitted as a free state - maintained balance of power in Senate between "free" and "slave" states | Missouri Compromise |
| to declare illegal | nullify |
| to withdraw from the union of states | secede |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints | Mormons |
| founder of the Mormon Church; murdered by an angry mob | Joseph Smith |
| Mormon leader who took his followers to Salt Lake Utah to escape persecution | Brigham Young |
| those who wanted to end slavery | abolitionists |
| abolitionist who published The Liberator | William Lloyd Garrison |
| escaped slave who published The North Star, abolitionist newspaper | Frederick Douglas |
| one of the first women's rights activist that argued God made men and women equal | Angelina Grimke |
| beginning of the Women's Rights Movement | Seneca Falls Convention |
| women's rights activist who worked for women's suffrage | Susan B. Anthony |
| women's rights activist who worked for women's property rights | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| person who believed in territorial growth | expansionist |
| belief of expansionists that the United States westward growth was inevitable and a God-given right | Manifest Destiny |
| the mission where a battle between 200 Texans and 6000 Mexican soldiers during the Texas War for Independence resulted in the massacre of the Texans | the Alamo |
| land ceded by Mexico as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; included present day states of Arizona, New Mexico, California | Mexican Cession |
| treaty that ended the Mexican American War | Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
| US purchase of southern New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico; established permanent US southern and western borders | Gadsden Pruchase |
| political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state; territories would be decided by popular sovereignty; stricter fugitive slave law; slave trade outlawed in Washington, DC | Compromise of 1850 |
| people of the region determine the outcome (free or slave state?) | popular sovereignty |
| code name for the men and women who operated the Underground Railroad | conductors |
| code name for the safe houses of the Underground Railroad | stations |
| code name for the paths from station to station of the Underground Railroad | tracks |
| author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| pro-slavery Missourians who went to Kansas to vote illegally, helping to elect a pro-slavery legislature | border ruffians |
| nickname for territory that witnessed violence and bloodshed due to slavery issue | Bleeding Kansas |
| Supreme Court decision that ruled slaves were property and remained property, even in a "free" state | Dred Scott Decision |
| radical abolitionist who was executed for the attack on Harper's Ferry arsenal | John Brown |
| first state to secede from the Union | South Carolina |
| president of the Confederate States of America (CSA) | Jefferson Davis |
| fort where the first shots of the Civil War took place | Fort Sumter |
| name for Americans and immigrants who went to California as a result of the Gold Rush | 49ers |
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