Manifest Destiny
THIS is the Idea that it is America's God given right and duty to spread American people and ideals from sea to shining sea.
What is manifest destiny?
THIS person started an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Who is John Brown?
THIS was the name of the Border State that Lincoln said he had to have on his side?
What is Kentucky?
THIS is what the 14th amendment states
What is the 14th Amendment states citizenship is granted to people (1) born in the US (2) naturalized. (Except Native Americans)?
What is to be granted equal protection for everyone under the law?
An increase in immigration from Ireland and Germany led to an increase in this group who believed that immigrants were a lower social group than them PLUS pushed for restrictions on immigration into the United States
Who are Nativists?
Strongly anti-Catholic, as well as will be anti-Chinese with the creation of the Transcontinental RR
This is the continent that the Transcontinental Railroad would open up trade with
What is Asia?
(Plus Gold Rush = pulling in laborers from Asia - China specifically)
The Fugitive Slave Act (liked by the South) was the MOST controversial aspect of THIS Legislative decision regarding California statehood as a free state (liked by the North)
What is the Compromise of 1850?
THIS Amendment stated that slavery was illegal (except for prisoners)
What was the 13th Amendment?
This individual was known for speaking on behalf of Black American males right to get the right to vote EVEN if women did not gain the right to vote because of the persecution that continued to exist under Jim Crow America, as much as slavery in the past
Who was Frederick Douglass?
THIS Term was originally proposed by a Democrat from Michigan that allowed the decision of slavery within a territory to be decided upon by the settlers of the area
What is Popular Sovereignty?
THIS Act gave 160 acres for free to anyone who would pay $10 and promise to cultivate land for minimum of 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
THIS Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe painted the owners of slaves as monsters and helped the abolitionist movement in the early 1850s
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
THIS was WHY Lincoln was hesitant to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
What is Lincoln was afraid the Emancipation Proclamation would cause the border states to secede?
THESE are TWO Examples of Ways that Black Codes support the claim of "citizenship but a sham"
What is laws were passed to limit the Black community, such as;
-Can't borrow money to rent/buy
-Can't offer a handshake to a White Person
-Literacy Tests
-Poll Taxes
-Can't sue whites in court
Although never learning to read or write, this woman was known for her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech and was a strong abolitionist
Who was Sojourner Truth?
This is the name of the agreement/purchase that came after the Mexican American War that allowed for creation of a Transcontinental Railroad on the Southern part of the United States
THIS piece of legislation gave territories Popular Sovereignty over the issue of slavery
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the name of the Fort that ended up in Confederate territory after THIS state seceded? (2 parts to the answer)
What is Fort Sumter? AND
What is South Carolina?
This was the derogatory name for White Southerners who supported the Republican ideas
What are Scalawags?
A political party that will eventually turn into the Republican Party - they saw slavery as incompatible to free labor
What is the Free Soil Party?
This was the slogan James K. Polk ran on during the Election of 1844 AND this was the line that was officially decided on for the Oregon territory
AND
What was 49 degree line?
THIS Event was when a pro-slavery Congressman beat another Congressman on the Senate floor after a speech by the abolitionist Congressman, and disagreements over the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the Caning of Charles Sumner?
This is the approximate amount of Industries/ Manufacturing the Union had? AND
This is the number of Military colleges the Confederacy had out of 8
What is 95%
AND
What is 7 out of 8?
THIS Legislation protected the citizenship and protection of African Americans? (Hint: it was vetoed by Johnson, but overridden by Congress)
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
THIS 1846 proposed resolution would prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico and highlighted the increased sectional tension of the time
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This is the name of the Treaty that acquired New Mexico region PLUS California, as well as land to the Rio Grande river
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
THESE were the THREE Major Parts of the decision in the Dred Scott case
What were -
1. Dred Scott couldn't sue in court because Blacks were not citizens
2. The gov can't deprive people of their "property"
3. The decision allowed slavery in the territories
This was the name of the Civil War battle that kept Great Britain and France out of the war "for now" AND this is the name of the Civil War battle that kept Great Britain and France out of the war "permanently" (Two answers)
What is Antietam?
AND
What is Gettysburg?
Between 60 - 150 Black men were killed in an attempt to stop a Democratic seizure of local government, a black militia group seized the courthouse - 3 different white supremacy groups surrounded the courthouse - the Black militia surrendered, but was still massacred
What was the Colfax massacre?
First African American to serve in the US Congress (Mississippi)