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2. Region that saw incursions by Border Ruffians and the Pottawattomie Creek Massacre.

3. Kansas Territory

4. Even Thomas Jefferson personally believed this act to be unconstitutional and had drafted an amendment to make it possible

5. Louisiana Purchase

6. This state, a short-lived republic, was ultimately made a free state by the Compromise of 1850

7. California

8. This region of America became the nation’s granary in the Antebellum period and was typified by a market- based commodity trade.

9. The Midwest

10. This state was heavily involved in the Nullification Crisis during Jackson’s presidency and later was the first state to secede from the Union.

11. South Carolina

12. The first two-party system pitted these two groups against each other.

13. Federalists vs. Democratic- Republicans

14. This American political party had a platform based on social reform, protection of domestic manufacturing, a government involved in the economy, and high tariffs.

15. Whigs

16. The Indian resistance fighters Prophet and Tecumseh were part of this great Indian nation.

17. Shawnee Nation

18. Which two men were known as the greatest war hawks leading up to the War of 1812?

19. John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay

20. What is the term for an American judicial outlook where one “reads between the lines” of the Constitution and tries to apply it to a wide range of principles.

21. Broad Constructionists

22. The growth of these entities (and their later sanctification by the U.S. Supreme Court) stimulated the growth of a Northern manufacturing base because investors could be shielded from fault for the company’s actions.

23. Limited Liability Corporations (LLC)

24. During the 1840s and 1850s, fear of this steadily increased as a result of the reaction to the Wilmot Proviso, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott Decision.

25. The Slave Power

26. This political party was founded on the slogan of “Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Men.”

27. Republican Party

28. This revolt was suppressed with a firm demonstration of federal power by the Washington administration – demonstrating the renewed vigor of the U.S. Constitution.

29. Whiskey Rebellion

30. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolves were written by Madison and Jefferson in response to this.

31. Alien and Sedition Acts.

32. This act thoroughly destroyed the political viability of the Federalist Party as they met to consider possible secession from the union during the War of 1812

33. Hartford Convention

34. This revolt, led by an educated slave, is the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history.

35. Nat Turner Rebellion

36. Supposedly, what was involved in the deal to establish the First Bank of the United States to obtain Jeffersonian support in Congress?

37. The new federal capital would have a southern location on the Potomac.

38. Which act inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to pen Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

39. The Fugitive Slave Act

40. What act did President Buchanan throw his support behind, even though it unfairly and undemocratically supported Southern interests?

41. Lecompton Constitution

42. Stephen Douglas may have retained his senate seat in 1858 because of a crafty political argument in which he stated that a territory might forbid slavery by simply not enacting the laws necessary for its practice. What is this?

43. Freeport Doctrine

44. President Lincoln rejected this compromise at the start of his presidency because he refused to give in on the republican plank forbidding the extension of slavery into the territories.

45. Crittenden Compromise

46. Which U.S. President presided over what was known as the Era of Good Feelings?

47. James Monroe

48. The federal government passed this Civil War act to helped raise money for the Union war effort by selling federal land to the states with the provision that the land be used for specific purposes – most likely education.

49. Morrill Land Grant Act

50. This American general brought the use of total war to the deep South in order to end the Civil War as quickly as possible and “make the South howl.”

51. William Tecumseh Sherman