Westward Movement
The 36°30′ imaginary line that indicated that all states admitted above this line became free states, while below this line, they became slave states, except for Missouri. Maine became a free state
What is Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This was an influential novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that stressed the moral evil of slavery and a key event that led to the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The first shots of the Civil War were here.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter (1861)?
The notification that Lincoln proclaimed about the Confederate slaves during the Civil War, ultimately releasing all slaves from slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What was made my President Thomas Jefferson that double the size of the US?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The idea that it was America's God Given Right to settle/aquire all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean was what?
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The name of the Confederate General who surrendered to the Union?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Who is John Brown?
This amendment was passed by Congress stating that no one could be kept from voting because of “race, color or previous servitude.”
What is the 15th Amendment?
These were the gold prospectors that rushed to California in the mid 1800s.
Who are the 49ers?
A law that advocated for popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska territories where the people would vote on whether they would become a slave or free state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
What is the 15th amendment?
Who is a free state?
The 3 ways land was acquired in the US.
What are purchases, wars, and treaties?
This is the compromise that admitted California as a free state.
What is Compromise of 1850?
A supreme court case decision that slaves would remain slaves in non-slave states and slaves could not sue because they were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
What are black codes?
A law signed by President Andrew Jackson that would relocate Native Americans from their homes in the West, resulting in the devastation of many tribes
What is the Indian Removal Act?
These were men and women who wanted to get rid of slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
What did Thomas Jefferson want Louis and Clark to do on their Corps of Discovery?
What is find a water route to the Pacific Ocean, establish relationships with Native Americans and keep detailed journals describing the land, people, animals, etc?
The economy of the South was mostly _______ , so they felt they needed slaves in order to prosper
What is agriculture or cash crops?
The name of the Union general
The name of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
To formally withdraw is to what? (The South did this, and the Civil War occurred soon after).