National Policies | ||
#1 | What was the name of the forced march in 1838 that resulted in the deaths of at least 4,000 Cherokee? | Trail of Tears |
#2 | Which U.S policy was announced in 1823 that stated that European countries could no longer create new colonies in the western hemisphere? | Monroe Doctrine |
#3 | What term was used to refer to the belief that God eventually wanted the U.S. to own all of North America? | Manifest Destiny |
#4 | Jackson opposed Henry Clary’s re-chartering of what in 1832 and vetoed the bill? | Bank of the United States |
#5 | Nationalist economic policies, including a protective tariff, was part of which system? | American System |
Territories & States | ||
#1 | Which former Northern Mexican Territory became known as the Bear Flag Republic and then started a crisis over the expansion of slavery in the territories and nearly broke the nation apart in 1849? | California |
#2 | According to Henry Clay’s Missouri Compromise, Missouri was to be admitted as a slave state, which state was to be admitted as a free state? | Maine |
#3 | In 1846, General Stephen Kearny took control of Santa Fe in which Northern Mexican Territory? | New Mexico |
#4 | Which Territory, populated by a group of Americans following Stephen F. Austin, won its independence from Mexico in 1836? | Texas |
#5 | Which territory was gained by the U.S. through the Adams-Onís Treaty with Spain? | Florida |
Laws | ||
#1 | Which bill did Congress consider to enable the president to use force in order to enforce federal laws that states refused to follow? | Force Bill |
#2 | Congress passed which act in 1830 that authorized the removal of Native Americans from land in the east and resettled them on reservation land in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma)? | Indian Removal Act |
#3 | Which law divided the Nebraska Territory into two parts so that the entire territory would not become a free state? | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
#4 | Which aspect of the Compromise of 1850 required citizens to help catch and return runaway slaves? | Fugitive Slave Act |
#5 | What was the name for the proposed law to ban slavery in the new western territories? | Wilmot Proviso |
Reform Movements | ||
#1 | Which reform movement worked for greater rights and opportunities for women in the early and middle 1800s? | Women's Movement |
#2 | Which reform movement worked to end alcohol abuse and its bad results in society? | Temperance Movement |
#3 | To which reform movement did Horace Mann contribute in the 1800s? | Education Reform Movement |
#4 | Which reform movement worked to change prisons in order to cause prisoners to feel sorrow for their crimes? | Penitentiary Movement |
#5 | What was the name of the religious revival that swept the U.S. in the early 1800s? | Second Great Awakening |
Abolitionism | ||
#1 | What was the name given to people who assisted in the Underground Railroad? | Conductors |
#2 | Which book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that brought the evils of slavery to those who had never witnessed it firsthand? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
#3 | Which two branches of the abolitionist movement developed? | Immediate Emancipation & Gradual Abolition |
#4 | Which abolitionist published the anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator? | William Lloyd Garrison |
#5 | What was manumission? | Voluntarily freeing of one's own slaves |
Final Question | |