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President during the Treaty of Greenville (1795)

Washington

President who’s rep was damaged by Jay’s Treaty

Washington

President stressed over the X,Y,Z affair

John Adams

President who shut down Alien and Sedition Acts

John Adams

President who sent American Navy to North African Barbary States

Jefferson

President who created the Embargo Act (1857)

Jefferson

President that sent troops to Northwest territory, against Tecumseh

Madison

President during the War of 1812

Madison

President during the Era of Good Feelings

Monroe

President who created the Missouri Compromise

Monroe

President whose doctrine was very progressive for America at the time

Monroe

President who was a product of the Corrupt Bargain

Quincy Adams

President who was the Yankee Misfit (hint: swimming naked in Potomac River)

Quincy Adams

President that created the Spoil System

Jackson

President that approved the Tariff of Abominations

Quincy Adams

President that drove the Force Bill (“The Bloody Bill”) through Congress

Jackson

President that created the Trail of Tears

Jackson

President that waged war against the U.S. Bank

Jackson

President called “The Little Magician”

Buren

President during the Panic of 1837

Buren

President that ran with “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” but lost

Harrison

President with the shortest presidency but longest inaugural address

Harrison

President called “His Accidency”

Tyler

President that displayed his Whig-ness by being extremely anti-Jackson, anti-bank, anti-tariff, and anti-internal improvement

Tyler

President that annexed Texas (1845)

Polk

President that had Congress declare war with Mexico (1846)

Polk

President during Manifest Destiny

Polk

President that established the 49th parallel between Canada & America, secured Orgeon Country

Polk

President that tried to induce the Wilmot Proviso (slavery would not be allowed in Mexico when added to the Union)

Polk

President called the “Hero of Buenos Vista”

Taylor

President that admitted California as a free state (hint: felt guilty because of William Seward)

Taylor

President during the Compromise of 1850

Fillmore

President that won the election of 1852 (hint: something you do to your ears)

Pierce

President that approved the Santa Anna treaty

Buren

President that won the election of 1856 over Fremont

Buchanan

President that dealt with the aftermath of the Dred Scott decision

Buchanan

President that won the election of 1860

Lincoln

President that was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act

Johnson

President that vetoed the Wade-Davis bill for the 10% plan

Lincoln

President that won the election of 1868 because of his Bloody Shirt

Grant

President that had to battle the KKK in his administration

Grant

What happened during the Republican Revolt of 1872?

People hated Grant and created the Liberal Republican Party

How was Grant elected?

popularity as a Civil War hero and support for Reconstruction policies contributed to his victory

Why was Rutherford chosen to run?

Grant could not run for a 3rd term and was unknown

Which state was not disputed over during the election of 1876?

Pennsylvania

What was the problem with two sets of votes? (one republican and one democratic)

They counted for double the amount of votes on either side

What was the Compromise of 1877?

15 members from the Senate and House met to vote on who would become president as long as Republicans removed military from the South, ending Reconstruction

Who disproved the 14th and 15th amendments?

Stanton and Anthony

What was the Wade-Davis bill?

Required 50% of Southern voters to pledge allegiance to America with strong protection around emancipation, but lacked Republican support

Who is being made fun of in the cartoon?

Lincoln and Johnson

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

A bill approved that provided now free blacks with living essentials like food, clothing, land, and education. Headed by Oliver Howard, it was not reinstated a second time

What were some laws passed during the Civil War?

morrill tariff, pacific railroad act, homestead act

Civil Rights Bill of 1866

gave blacks citizenship (states couldn’t revoke their rights) and tried to take down the Black Codes

“If we do not furnish them with homesteads, and hedge them around with protective laws; if we leave them to the legislation of their late masters, we had better have left them in bondage.”

Thaddeus Stevens

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Divided the South into 5 military zones, disabled many Confederates, laid new guidelines for states to enter

Tenure of Office Act (1867)

president had to secure approval from the Senate before removing someone they appointed

What Civil War Battle caused the Emancipation Proclomation?

Antietam

What Union victory stopped the South from gaining foreign intervention?

Gettysburg

What was the Union Civil War strategy?

create navy blockades, break the South in half, and attack until they fell

Fort Sumter

Lincoln sent supplies (not reinforcements) to the Fort; the South fired first

Who were the most powerful countries before the Civil War?

Britain and France

Nurses during the Civil War

Dorothea Dix, Lousie May Alcott, Sally

What started the Civil War?

Lincoln being elected as president

Wartime economy

North was booming with many railroads and industrialization; South struggled with no slave labor

Solomon Northup

a free African American man, kidnapped and sold into slavery for 12 years

Harriet Beecher Stowe

abolitionist author that wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” inspiring many national and foreign

frederick douglass

an abolitionist that escaped slavery and continued to tell his story and pushed the anti-slavery agenda

Hilton R Helper

Wrote a book with statistics that “proved” that southerners had a harder time than people that actually did

Compromise of 1850

called to admit California and end the Fugitive Slave Law

Fugitive Slave Law

runaway slaves could not testify, people were ordered to capture runaway slaves, and slaves had to be returned to owners

Dred Scott Decision

Slaves were considered private property by the 5th amendment and could moved to a free state without being freed

Election of 1856

Democrats: Buchanan, Republicans: Fremont, Know-Nothings: Fillmore; Buchanan Won

John Brown

abolitionist, stormed Harper’s Ferry in hopes of a slave revolt, arrested and then killed

Lincoln-Douglass Debates

covered popular sovereignty, Lecompton Constitution, and Dred Scott

Freeport Doctrine

Slavery is at the hands of the people, they have the power of popular sovereignty

Election of 1860

Stephen Douglas (North Dem), Fremont (South Dem), John Bell (“Know-Nothing”), Lincoln (Repub)

Hamilton beliefs

believed in a strong central government, a national bank, loose interpretation of Const., supported capitalism

When did the 2-party system form?

Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans and Hamiltonian Federalists

What did John Adams influence America with?

Not being too partisan or one-sided

Native American relations

They had a reason to dislike us because we forced them off their sacred land

Importance of the Revolution of 1800

We gained our independence and created our moral compass

What is Judicial Review?

The power to deem something as unconstitutional

Marbury v Madison

granted the Supreme Court the power to deem laws unconstitutional

How would the Native Americans view the Louisiana Purchase?

Resent because America gained land while they continued to lose their land

How should we view Native Americans (like Tecumseh) in History?

Soldiers fighting for the land that was rightfully theirs

War Vote of 1812

almost half; 19:13

4 parts of the American System

strong bank system, protective tariffs, roads and canals, and infastructure

Missouri/1820 Compromise

Missouri would be admitted as a slave state while Maine would be a free state; states entering south of the 36’30 line were free

Bad parts of the Era of Good Feelings

political space was strained and very divided, common man became the focus of politics

Why did the Cherokees become evil?

Became civilized without a Moral Compass and were succumbed to the evils of man kind

5 civilized tribes

Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles

Marshall vs Natives

they did not own land but had the rights to occupy land

Jackson’s view of Natives

two-faced as he tried to be friendly before kicking them off their land

Jackson’s Bank War (1832)

vetoed a bill that would renew the bank’s allowed actions (accepting and dispersing money); created pet banks

election of 1836

Buren (Dem) and Harrison (whig); Whigs reunited with a strong hatred for Jackson

Texas Independence

Texas was independent from Mexico after signing a treaty with Mexico; foreign forces in hopes of claiming America; Alamo: Texas defenders fought off the Mexican army until sacrificing themselves again

Election of 1840

Harrison (Whig) defeated Buren (Dem), symbolized Whig victory streaks

2nd Great Awakening

Spiritual reform that produced a lot of new christian religions that were progressive for the time

Which Abolitionist took a beak?

Angelina Grimke

Who wrote Moby Dick?

Herman Melville