| A | B |
|---|
| A person who fought to end slavery and to give rights to freedmen. | Abolitionist |
| Passed in 1798 to control criticism of the federal government. | Alien and Sedition Acts |
| He was a radical who planned and executed a raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. | John Brown |
| American novelist who wrote The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. | Cooper, James Fenimore |
| American essayist best known for his essay "Self-Reliance." | Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
| Years following the War of 1812, when one party, the Jeffersonian Republicans, dominated politics | Era of Good Feelings |
| An anti-foreign, anti-Catholic political party that arose following massive Irish and Catholic immigration during the late 1840s. | Know Nothings |
| The belief held by many Americans in the 1840s that the United States was destined to expand across the continent, by force if necessary. | Manifest Destiny |
| In 1823, it declared that the United States would not allow European countries to create new colonies in the Western Hemisphere | Monroe Doctrine |
| The doctrine, devised by John C. Calhoun, that a state could reject federal legislation within its borders. | Nullification |
| Held in 1848 in New York, this convention is recognized as the beginning of the women's rights movement in America. | Seneca Falls Convention |
| She was an African-American author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and was an opponent of slavery. | Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
| The right to vote. | Suffrage |
| American essayist best known for his work, Walden. | Thoreau, Henry David |
