Culture of the 1800s
Northern states built their economies and industries around this principle.
What is Free Wage Labor?
This large state seceded from Mexico in 1836 and immediately attempted to join the United States.
What is Texas?
This idea held that God ordained America's expansion to the west. It was initially proposed by John L. O'Sullivan.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the first engagement of the Civil War, taking place in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. It was a Confederate Victory.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
These white people were generally not slaveholders, and thus needed to be convinced to support slavery.
Who are yeomen farmers?
This religious movement emphasized a greater emotional connection to God and rejected calvinist principles like predestination.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This is the technical term for a person that owns more than 20 enslaved people.
What is a planter?
This was a compromise that allowed Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine in as a Free State. This also led to the rule that there would be no slave states north of the 36-30 parallel.
What is the Compromise of 1820 (Missouri Compromise)
This president was elected in 1860 with no help from southern states. His election triggered secessions across the south and ultimately the start of the war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This system allowed enslaved people free time after their jobs for the day were done.
This newspaper was produced by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. It used freedom-based imagery like the Liberty Bell to get its point across.
What is "The Liberator"?
This term represents the growing divide between northern and southern Americans that came due to differing values on industrialization and slavery.
What is sectionalism?
This was the miniature civil war that took place in the west in the 1850s when slavery was put on a state's referendum ballot.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This event led to Abraham Lincoln apologizing to the British government after the Union Navy seized a British ship carrying 2 confederate diplomats.
What is the Trent Affair?
This defender of slavery was a reverend from South Carolina who claimed that slavery was a Biblically ordained hierarchy.
Who is James Henley Thornwell.
This city in Massachusetts became a hub for textile manufacturing, with their mills employing mostly women.
What is Lowell?
This party was popular in the north and was in favor of corporatization and further industrialization. It had northern and southern wings divided on slavery.
Parts of it later formed the Republican Party.
Who are the Whigs?
This is the concept that the legality of slavery should be voted on by the population of a territory/state. It was championed by Stephen Douglas.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This battle in Pennsylvania tuned the confederacy back, and started their path to defeat.
What is Gettysburg?
This historian found and published interviews produced by formerly enslaved people, proving definitively that enslaved people had culture and agency on plantations.
Who is George P. Rawick?
These movements believed that a perfect world was possible. They were secular, religious, and political groups.
Who are utopianists?
This was proposed by a congressman from Pennsylvania in 1846. It proposed that slavery should be banned from the new US territory taken from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This historian proposed the "Frontier Thesis" in 1893. This is the idea that American westward expansion was necessary to preserve American liberty, as it provided mobility for the people.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
This state was one of the last to secede, but was integral to the confederacy's war effort due to its industrialization.
What is Virginia?
This defender of slavery believed that every poor person regardless of race should be enslaved in order to prevent a socialist revolution.
Who is George Fitzhugh?