Old South
Which cash crop became "king," particularly in the Deep South?
Cotton
Who led the revolution against the Mexican dictator, Santa Anna?
Sam Houston
Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in _______, which led to the creation of the Republican Party in opposition.
1854
The event that began armed conflict between the two section of the nation.
Ft. Sumter
"Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home"
Sorrow Song/Slave Spiritual
The Nat Turner Rebellion occurred where and in which year?
Virginia (Southampton County), 1831
The ideal that is was God's ordained destiny that the U.S. would possess the whole continent for the spread of liberty and republican ideals
Manifest Destiny
The first Republican candidate to run in a presidential election was ________________.
John C. Fremont
Five days after the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued the ___________________.
Emancipation Proclamation
"With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, which God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
Name the four layers of Southern society.
Planters, middle class farmers, yeoman farmers and poor whites, slaves
The portion of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that gave the California, Utah, and New Mexico territories to the U.S.
Mexican Cession
Missouri Compromise, 5th
The type of warfare Sherman waged on his Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea.
total war
"by virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing rebellion..."
Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation
What was the effect of closing the external slave trade in 1808?
Development of a vast internal trading network; kidnapping of free blacks and selling them into slavery
When John Brown led his four sons and son-in-law to a pro-slavery town, drug five men from their homes and hacked them to death with swords.
Name the candidates in the 1860 presidential election.
Stephen Douglas, John Bell, John Breckenridge, Abraham Lincoln
The constitutional right Lincoln suspended in April 1861, as did Jefferson Davis within a year.
habeas corpus
"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."
Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
How did the arguments in favor of preserving slavery change?
From being a "necessary evil" to a "positive good"
What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?
1. Entry of California as free
2. Utah and New Mexico popular sovereignty
3. Slave trade abolished in DC
4. Strengthened Fugitive Slave Law
Crittenden Compromise; Corwin Amendment
McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, Grant
"In my hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."
Lincoln, First Inaugural Address