Westward Expansion
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
Manifest Destiny
Irish immigrants were mainly settling here to work in factories.
Northern cities
The platform of this political party was against slavery and polygamy.
Republican Party
The first state to secede.
South Carolina
The 10% Plan was the Reconstruction plan for president...
Lincoln
This president only wanted to be elected for a single term so he could achieve his main goal- westward expansion.
James K. Polk
80% of the world's supply of this came from a specific region in the US. (Name the resource and the region.)
Cotton, South
Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its legality in this area
New territories.
Sherman's March to the Sea utilized this total war method.
Scorched Earth
Terrorist group that started during Reconstruction
Ku Klux Klan
American empresario who brought settlers to Texas and aided in the eventual Texas revolution with the phrase "Remember the Alamo".
Stephen A. Austin or Sam Houston
Explain how the aftermath of John Brown's Raid exemplifies sectionalism.
North saw him as a martyr.
South saw his as a terrorist.
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
Dred Scott decision
This battle was the high water mark of the Confederacy
Gettysburg
What were Black Codes?
Various laws in southern states that reinforced Black economic subjugation to their former slaveowners.
States included in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (at least five)
California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war
Railroads
This piece of legislation proved that popular sovereignty was not the way to answer the slavery question.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A key victory for the Union Army that gave them control of the Mississippi River.
Battle of Vicksburg
The 14th Amendment said...
Anyone born in the US was a citizen of the USA, including formerly enslaved Black Americans.
Compromise of 1850
0.1% of white southerners...
Owned 100+ slaves
The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 (at least in the North)
A tougher Fugitive Slave Law
Purposes of the Emancipation Proclamation. (At least two.)
Discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war
How did the Compromise of 1877 bring the end of Reconstruction?
Rutherford B. Hayes would become President as long as he agreed to remove federal troops from the South.