Appositives Flashcards
Louisiana purchase an 1803 agreement between the United States and France was orchestrated by Thomas Jefferson, ___ ,who doubled the size of the nation with his acquisition.
The third president
The market revolution, ___ ,marked by the transformation of American business and the global trade was driven by innovations, like the steamboat significantly impacting the economy and society in the early 19th century
A period of rapid growth
Andrew Jackson’s policy of Indian removal culminated in the forced relocation known as the trail of tears, ___ ,which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Native Americans
A controversial decision
The cult of domesticity, ___ ,idealized women’s rules within the home as the moral guardians of the family, emphasizing the responsibility for nurturing and domestic tasks
Norms regarding women’s behavior
The compromise of 1850 an effort to ease tensions between the north and south included measures such as the figure slave act, ___ ,which wreck requires assistance to assist in the capture of escape slaves
An unpopular law
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, ___ ,was a radical abolitionist attempt to initiate an armed slave revolt by seizing United States arsenal, which heighten sectional tensions leading up to the Civil War
A military arsenal
The emancipation proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln, ___, declared the freedom of all slaves and confederate held territory, redefining the purpose of the Civil War
The 16th President of the United States
During reconstruction, the Freedman bureau, ___, was established to aid former enslaved African-Americans by providing education, healthcare, and employment assistance
A government agency
The Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the late 19th century, was characterized by the rise of powerful industrialists, ___, who often a mass great wealth at the expensive laborers and small businesses
Such as Rockefeller
The policy of isolationism, ___, adopted by the United States in the inter war. Kept the US and World War II until the bombings of Pearl Harbor
Staying out of foreign affairs
