Late Antebellum
The United States fought a war with this nation over the territory that became Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado.
What is Mexico?
This political party, which exists to this day, was descended from the Free Soilers and the Whigs and ran their first presidential ticket in 1856, losing to James Buchanan.
What is the Republican Party?
--Double Jeopardy--
This figure was a congressman from Illinois who was elected President in 1860, much to the chagrin of the southern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
11 Southern states chose to do this when Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, thus starting the Civil War.
What is secede?
This is the concept that held that the United States was chosen by God to control all of North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What crop, mainly grown by slave labor, dominated the southern economy in the lead to the Civil War?
What is cotton?
This conference, organized and headlined by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, took place in 1848. The conference produced the Declaration of Sentiments which is a foundational text in American feminism.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This figure was born into slavery in Maryland, but after his escape, became the most well-known Black intellectual of his time.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This fort, off the coast of Charleston, was the site of the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This state holds the distinction of having seceded from a country twice over the issue of slavery.
What is Texas?
This party nominated two opposing presidential tickets in 1860, having split over the issue of slavery.
What is the Democratic Party?
This religious movement was a revival of American Protestantism. Unlike a similar earlier movement, it pushed for more social change and individual agency.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This figure was in charge of the Union Army in the west before being placed in charge of all Union forces later in the war. He is best known for accepting Robert E. Lee's surrender and later becoming president of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
--Double Jeopardy--
This issue, cited prominently in the secession documents of the southern states, was the driving force behind the Civil War.
What is Slavery?
This state was "Bleeding" throughout the 1850s as a result of the intense civil unrest between pro-slavery and abolitionist settlers.
What is Kansas?
Name a Border State. (i.e. a state that maintained slavery throughout the Civil War but did not choose to leave the Union during the Civil War)
What is Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, or West Virginia?
These people were not necessarily abolitionists, but they opposed slavery's expansion into western territories to protect the jobs and interests of free laborers.
Who are the Free Soilers?
This figure was a US Senator from Illinois, known for the Compromise of 1850, his victory in the 1859 Illinois Senate election, candidacy for the 1860 Presidential Election, and his support of popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Abraham Lincoln passed this executive order in 1863, officially allowing any enslaved people escaping from the south to the north permanent freedom from slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This state had a massive influx of settlers after gold was found here in 1849. It entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
What is California?
This 1850 law made it legal for bounty hunters to capture people suspected of being escaped enslaved people anywhere they wanted to in the north, with the northern governments having no way to stop them.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This religious movement, led by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young started in New York, but was continuously rejected by communities where they settled. They eventually settled in Utah.
What is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (Mormons)
This figure, a USC Alum, wrote a letter to the Presbyterian Church in Glasgow criticizing them for building a monument to enslaved people.
Who is James Henry Hammond?
This battle, which took place in Pennsylvania, led to a Union victory and began the political and military collapse of the Confederacy. It is best known for President Lincoln's succinct speech in its aftermath.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This concept, established by the Compromise of the 1850, allowed states to vote on whether or not they would have slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?