Westward Expansion
The term (coined by John O’Sullivan in 1845) for the belief in America’s right and duty to expand from sea to shining sea.
What is manifest destiny?
This is the name of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that aimed to show the moral ills of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This is the name of the principle in which the status of slavery would be determined by the votes of local settlers, not Congress.
What is popular sovereignty?
This is the name of the fort that where the first hostilities of the Civil War occurred.
What was Fort Sumter?
This is the name of the practice in which tenant farmers provided labor to landlords/planters in exchange for a portion of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This is the name for the non-Indian population of Spanish origin in Texas who aided Americans in the Texas Revolt.
Who are the Tejanos?
This was the name of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper.
What is The Liberator?
This is the name of the Illinois senator who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act and eventually ran against Lincoln in the election of 1860.
Who was Stephen A. Douglas?
This man was named president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This is the name of the agency that sought to provide aid to recently emancipated African Americans.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This is the name of the battle in which Mexican forces killed 187 American and Tejano defenders of a mission compound in San Antonio on March 6, 1836.
What is the Alamo?
This is the name of the white supremacist group that protested abolitionist causes and often used violent tactics to deter abolitionists.
What was the "gentlemen of property and standing"?
This is the name of the Massachusetts senator who was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks for denouncing "The Crime against Kansas".
Who was Charles Sumner?
This is the name of the battle that northerners were confident that they could win and packed picnic baskets to go watch, only to be embarrassed and shocked by a stunning defeat.
What was the Battle of Bull Run?
These were legislative policies enacted in the south to maintain white supremacy.
What were the black codes?
The name of the proposed resolution to prohibit slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This is the name of the group that believed in the gradual abolition of slavery and the settlement of black Americans in Africa.
What was the American Colonization Society?
The Supreme Court ruled in the decision on Dred Scott v. Sanford that this compromise was unconstitutional.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This is the name of the battle in which Robert E. Lee attempted to capture Washington D.C. but was repelled on the bloodiest day in American history.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
This amendment to the Constitution declared that "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States".
What was the 14th Amendment?
This is the name of the senator who offered a plan (The Compromise of 1850) to resolve the conflict of admitting California to the Union as a free state.
This was the main branch of the abolitionist movement in the 19th century.
What was the American Anti-Slavery Society?
This is the abolitionist who led an assault on Harper's Ferry in Virginia that heightened sectional tensions.
Who was John Brown?
These are the names of the battles that prevented the Confederacy from advancing north.
What were Vicksburg and Gettysburg?
This is the name for the northern Reconstruction officials who moved to the south after the war.