From War of 1812 to the Civil War

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  1. 2. Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act contributed to the rise of ____________________ in the United States.
  2. 4. The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to resolve the issue of ____________________ in the territories US acquired from Mexico.
  3. 5. ____________________ benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford.
  4. 6. President ____________________ expanded presidential powers by replacing many government workers with his supporters, vetoing the extention of US Bank, and refusing to enforce Worcester v. Georgia decision.
  5. 8. Defenders of popular ____________________ believed that the right way to settle the question of slavery in the territories is to let the people who live there determine if their state is to be slave or free.
  6. 12. The constitutional principle of ____________________ to break away from the Union was the main focus of the North–South conflicts that led to the Civil War.
  7. 14. President Andrew Jackson used the ____________________ system to reward supporters with United States government jobs.
  8. 15. ____________________ was issued primarily to prevent European nations from future colonization in Latin America.
  9. 16. The United States government is creating memorials along the ____________________ because it was the location of injustices against many Native American Indians.
  10. 18. During the 1840s, supporters of ____________________ favored acquiring Texas and California.
  11. 19. who opposed slavery.
  12. 20. _____________________ Proclamation freed the slaves in the Confederate States and prompted many freedmen to enlist in the U.S. army.
  13. 22. Violent Abolitionist, ____________________ ,was executed for his attack on Harper's Ferry.
  14. 23. The principle of ___________________ sovereignty was an important part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  15. 24. President ____________________ believed that secession is unlawful and treasonous. Everything possible must be done to preserve the Union.
  16. 25. In the 1840s, President James K. Polk’s belief in Manifest Destiny led to a war with ____________________.
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  1. 1. As a result of the ____________________ Compromise (1820) the balance between free and slave states was maintained.
  2. 3. One reason the decision in ____________________ v. Sanford (1857) was so controversial is that it ruled that Congress had no power to limit slavery in the territories.
  3. 4. ____________________ Convention supported the movement for women’s rights.
  4. 7. In his First Inaugural Address, President Lincoln tried to convince ____________________ that he posed no threat to their way of life.
  5. 9. In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson supported the Indian removal policy because white settlers desired the land on which ____________________ lived.
  6. 10. Harriet Beecher Stow wrote ____________________.
  7. 11. Desire for full control of the port of ____________________ on the Mississippi River had the greatest influence on President Thomas Jefferson’s decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory in 1803.
  8. 12. Election of Abraham Lincoln as president led directly to the ____________________ of several Southern states from the Union.
  9. 13. A goal that was established at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was achieved in 1920 by the adoption of national woman’s ___________________.
  10. 17. The constitutional controversy that led directly to the start of the ____________________ concerned the right of states to secede from the Union.
  11. 21. As the Civil War began the North had greater military and ____________________ strength than the South.