Expansion
Although the border was not established at 54’40”, this land was added to the USA after a boundary dispute with the British was settled in 1846.
What is Boundary Dispute in Oregon Territory?
Debate over this legislative decision of popular sovereignty led to violence in the West and violence in the legislature itself.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
An order by President Lincoln which freed all the slaves in the States who were fighting against the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was created by Congress to provide clothing, medical care, and education to freedmen and white refugees.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This amendment officially granted universal male suffrage
What is the 15th amendment?
This effectively ended the Mexican- American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexica and Utah
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision regarding California statehood.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This plan was devised by Winfield Scott. The blockade of southern ports and the capture of Mississippi river to split the south into two.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
A derogatory term for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican party after the Civil War.
What was a scalawag?
The political group who wanted to impeach President Johnson and pushed for military occupation for the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This democrat candidate for the election of 1844 was committed to expansion and manifest destiny and appealed strongly to American westerners and Southerners who in 1844 were in an expansionist mood (Fifty-four Forty or Fight!)
Who was James K Polk?
This failed attempt to abolish slavery in all new territories acquired from Mexica was NOT added to the Compromise of 1850.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Marked a turning point in the Civil War: form a war to preserve the Union to a war to free slaves.
What is Gettysburg Address?
A system similar to slavery in the South which forced African Americans back into the field after the 13th amendment.
What was sharecropping?
Name at least two ways in which white southern limited African Americans voting rights.
What is literacy test, poll tax and or grandfather clause?
This was the immediate cause of the Mexican American war.
Border Dispute between Rio Grande or Nessus River
The violence in Kansas spilled over into the hall of Congress. Which event is connected to this?
What was Caning of Sumner?
A major part of the confederate strategy for winning independence was based on what?
Winning recognition and support from Great Britain.
Which political party would oppose regulations like the Black Codes?
Who were the Republican Party?
The idea that states should decide whether they want to be free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
Name two reasons Nativists disliked immigrants. Must name two to earn 500 points
1) newcomers would take their jobs
2) weaken the culture of Anglo majority
The final divide between the North & the South which resulted in several states seceding from the Union.
What is the Election of 1860?
These northern democrats were opposed to the Civil War. They were outraged at the high taxes, inflation, death tolls, emancipation and war in general.
Who are copperheads?
States began to create laws segregating facilities and public accommodations. This notion of separate by equal was upheld by Plessy v Ferguson. What is this called?
What are Jim Crow laws?
A method of socially dealing with freed slaves through the south in which restricted the rights of freed men and keep them bound to work contracts, gave curfews and forced them to carry passes.
What were the black codes?