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- 5. President Andrew Jackson used the ____________________ system to reward supporters with United States government jobs.
- 7. The principle of ___________________ sovereignty was an important part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
- 10. During the late 1800s, most __________ voters in the South solidly supported the Democratic Party primarily because Democrats disliked the Reconstruction programs of the Republicans.
- 11. Harriet Beecher Stow wrote ____________________.
- 13. ____________________ benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford.
- 16. The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to resolve the issue of ____________________ in the territories US acquired from Mexico.
- 18. 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.
- 21. Implementation of the __________ Codes was an attempt by southern state governments after the Civil War to limit the rights of African Americans?
- 23. A goal that was established at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was achieved in 1920 by the adoption of national woman’s ___________________.
- 24. After the Civil War, a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew __________ and the Radical Republicans in Congress was disagreement over the plans for restoring Southern states to the Union.
- 27. President ____________________ believed that secession is unlawful and treasonous. Everything possible must be done to preserve the Union.
- 29. Election of Abraham Lincoln as president led directly to the ____________________ of several Southern states from the Union.
- 30. Violent Abolitionist, ____________________ ,was executed for his attack on Harper's Ferry.
- 32. 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.
- 33. 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.
- 34. The United States government is creating memorials along the ____________________ because it was the location of injustices against many Native American Indians.
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- 1. 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.
- 2. who opposed slavery.
- 3. The constitutional controversy that led directly to the start of the ____________________ concerned the right of states to secede from the Union.
- 4. In the 1840s, President James K. Polk’s belief in Manifest Destiny led to a war with ____________________.
- 6. The practice of slavery was officially ended in the United States with passage of the __________ Amendment.
- 8. The common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution was to grant basic ___________ to formerly enslaved persons.
- 9. In his First Inaugural Address, President Lincoln tried to convince ____________________ that he posed no threat to their way of life.
- 12. In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson supported the Indian removal policy because white settlers desired the land on which ____________________ lived.
- 13. Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act contributed to the rise of ____________________ in the United States.
- 14. During the 1840s, supporters of ____________________ favored acquiring Texas and California.
- 15. As a result of the ____________________ Compromise (1820) the balance between free and slave states was maintained.
- 17. _____________________ Proclamation freed the slaves in the Confederate States and prompted many freedmen to enlist in the U.S. army.
- 19. As the Civil War began the North had greater military and ____________________ strength than the South.
- 20. ____________________ was issued primarily to prevent European nations from future colonization in Latin America.
- 22. At the start of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln stated that the major reason for fighting the war was to uphold the Constitution by preserving the __________.
- 25. ____________________ Convention supported the movement for women’s rights.
- 26. 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.
- 28. … The whole military force of the State is at the service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia, to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his property; but not a soldier is offered to save a citizen of Massachusetts from being kidnapped! The author of this statement is expressing dissatisfaction with the __________ -slave law, a provision included in the Compromise of 1850.
- 31. One major result of the __________’s victory in the Civil War was that the supremacy of the national government was upheld?