Studied by 3 peoplePresident 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 signed Alien and Sedition Acts
John Adams
President who sent American Navy to North African Barbary States
Jefferson
President who created the Embargo Act (1807)
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 1820
Monroe
President whose doctrine was very progressive for America at the time
Monroe
President who was a product of the Corrupt Bargain
JQA
President who was the Yankee Misfit (hint: swimming naked in Potomac River)
JQA
President that created the Spoils System
Jackson
President that approved the Tariff of Abominations
JQA
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 March 1st 1845
John Tyler
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 Buena Vista” 1848
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 over Winfield Scott? (hint: something you do to your ears)
Pierce
President that approved the Santa Anna treaty
Franklin Pierce
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 pocket 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 Liberal Republican Revolt of 1872? (except…)
People hated Grant and created the Liberal Republican Party (except… exodus of righteous republicans)
How was Grant elected? (except…)
popularity as a Civil War hero and support for Reconstruction policies contributed to his victory (except… normalcy)
Why was Rutherford chosen to run?
Grant could not run for a 3rd term and Rutherford was a compromise candidate and was the “Great Unknown”
Which state was not disputed over during the election of 1876?
Pennsylvania
What was the problem with two sets of votes in 1876? (one republican and one democratic)
If the president of the senate counted the votes they would only accept the republican votes, negating the democratic ones
What was the Compromise of 1877(except…)?
15 members from the Senate and House met to vote on who would become president as long as Republicans (Hayes) removed military from the South, ending Reconstruction (expect… republicans able to support black equality)
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 Righteous Republican support
Who is being made fun of in the cartoon?
Lincoln (rail splitter) and Johnson (Tailor)
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? (except…)
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 because of Andrew Johnson (except… ended with the election of Hayes)
What were some laws not passed during the Civil War?
Choices: morrill tariff, pacific railroad act, homestead act or civil rights bill, <-answer
Civil Rights Bill of 1866 (except…)
1.) gave blacks citizenship (states couldn’t revoke their rights) and tried to take down the Black Codes, proportionately the (2.) representation of a state in Congress and in the Electoral College if it denied blacks the ballot; (3.) disqualified from federal and state office former Confederates who as federal officeholders had once sworn “to support the Constitution of the United States; (4.) guaranteed the federal debt, while repudiating all Confederate debts.
vetoed by Johnson but overturned by congress. Also excluded voting rights
“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 districts commanded by union generals, (20,000 soldiers total), also took voting rights away from 10,000 former confederates, required the ratification of the 14th amendment, and full suffrage for black men (pre 15th)
Tenure of Office Act (1867) (except…)
required the president to secure the consent of the Senate before he could remove his appointees once they had been approved by that body. (violated by Johnson in 1868 when he removed secretary of war Stanton)
What Civil War Battle caused Lincoln to say the Emancipation Proclamation?
Antietam
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? (except…)
said he would not free the slaves in the border states but would free the slaves in the confederacy “where he could he didn’t and where he couldn’t he did” only 800,000 slaves were freed, (expanded the war aims of the north)
What Union victory stopped the South from gaining foreign intervention?
Gettysburg
What was the Union Civil War strategy? (except…)
create navy blockades, break the South in half, and attack until they fell (anaconda) (except… foreign intervention)
Fort Sumter
Lincoln notified the South Carolinians that an expedition would be sent to provision the garrison, though not to reinforce it. But to Southern eyes “provision” spelled “reinforcement.”
Most powerful tool for foreign diplomacy?
King Grain and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Nurses during the Civil War (expect…)
Dorothea Dix, Lousia May Alcott, Barton, Anthony (except…Anthony)
What did Lincoln do pre-war?
Declared martial law, imprisoned congressional reps from south, issues declaration of war, and suspended habeas corpus
Wartime economy
North was booming with many railroads and industrialization; South struggled with no slave labor
Why did they want slavery to end? (out of place)
Choices: HBS and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Helper and impending…, Douglass and a narrative, Northup and 12 years a slave (Helper?)
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? (except…)
California to be a free state, Texas territory disputes go to mexico, and abolition of the slave trade( but not slavery) in D.O.C. and Utah and NM were admitted as slave states, but under popular sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Law (except…)
runaway slaves could not testify, people were ordered to capture runaway slaves, and slaves had to be returned to owners
Dred Scott Decision (except…)
(1857) Slaves were considered private property by the 5th amendment and could moved to a free state without being freed. under chief justice Taney and President Buchanan
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, industrial juggernaut
When did the 2-party system form?
Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans and Hamiltonian Federalists (taxes or constitution)
What did John Adams influence America with?
Not being too partisan or one-sided, going against his federalist party by not declaring war with france
Native American relations
They had a reason to dislike us because we forced them off their sacred land
Importance of the Revolution of 1800
Jefferson a democratic republican defeats adams a federalist causing a “revolution” in the change of political parties. Peaceful change of power
What is Judicial Review?
The power to deem something as unconstitutional as decided by SCOTUS and SCOTUS only, established by Marbury v. Madison under John Marshall
How would the Native Americans view the Louisiana Purchase?
Resent because America gained land while they continued to lose their land
How should historians view Native Americans (like Tecumseh) in History?
Soldiers fighting for the land that was rightfully theirs
War Vote of 1812
almost half; 19:13 and was proof of divide over foreign policy with GB
4 parts of the American System
Henry Clay 1824: strong bank system, protective tariffs, roads and canals, and infrastructure
Missouri/1820 Compromise (except…)
Missouri would be admitted as a slave state while Maine would be a free state(broke off from Massachusetts) ; states entering south of the 36’30 line were free
Bad parts of the Era of Good Feelings?
panic of 1817, sectionalism, whigs v dems
Why did the Cherokees become evil?
Became civilized but still had slaves, violating the moral compass
5 civilized tribes
Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles
Marshall vs Natives
Chief Justice John Marshall rules for the Cherokee, finding that the U.S. is legally bound to treat the tribes “as nations, respect their rights, and manifest a firm purpose to afford that protection which treaties stipulate.”
Jackson’s view of Natives
paternalistic and patronizing -- he described them as children in need of guidance. and believed the removal policy was beneficial to the Indians.
Jackson’s Bank War (1832)
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay presented a bill in congress to renew the Bank of the US
Clay planned to screw jackson over this
Vetoed by jackson “old hero”
“The Bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it”
1833: Jackson removes all federal deposits from the bank of the united states to kill Biddle’s bank
Successfully killed the bank then issued a Specie Circular: decree that required all public lands to be purchased with metallic money
Contributed to panic of 1837
election of 1836
Buren (Dem)
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
Democrats 2-party system of 1840
dems(jackson/Buren) v/ whigs (harrison/Clay)
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
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