Westward Expansion
This piece of technology helped transport goods and people faster
What is the railroad?
Across the north, readers became acutely aware of the horrors of slavery on a far more personal level than ever before, due to this novel
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Conflict that led to the last four southern states seceding from the Union
What was Fort Sumter?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.
What is sharecropping?
Term for the belief that westward expansion was America's God given right
What is manifest destiny?
A final event leading to the Civil War that led to the first seven states seceding
What is the Election of 1860?
Turning point in the Civil War where the Union was able to capture the Mississippi River
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott Decision/Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Ran on an "expansionist platform" and was mostly successful
Double jeopardy: Where was this candidate unsuccessful in westward expansion?
Who is James K. Polk?
54 or Fight Canadian border
On the evening of October 16, 1859 a staunch abolitionist and a group of his supporters captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.
What is John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry?
Battle in the Civil War that had the largest total casualties, was fought in the North, and was a significant victory for the Union
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Plan that proposed that if seceding states ratify the 13th Amendment and 10% who voted in the Election of 1860 pledge loyalty to the Union that they could reform their state governments.
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
His views on Reconstruction reflected both his staunch Unionism and his firm belief in states’ rights. In his view, the southern states had never given up their right to govern themselves, and the federal government had no right to determine voting requirements or other questions at the state level
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The measure met with strong opposition in the Northern states, federal commissioners would determine if a black person was legitimately free or an escaped slave
Double Jeopardy: This was a part of which larger government policy?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act/Fugitive Slave Law?
Compromise of 1850
Strategy of the Union to win the Civil War
Double Jeopardy: What was the Confederate strategy?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What is receive aid from Europe?
An informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War; provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States. Mexico relinquished all claims to Texas, and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Proposed by Stephen Douglass. Mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Three advantages the Union had at the beginning of the Civil War
Double Jeopardy: Two advantages that the Confederacy had in the beginning of the Civil War
Union 1. More industrialized 2. More established government and navy 3. More people
Confederacy 1. Better generals 2. Home court advantage
Outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts. Each state was required to write a new constitution, which needed to be approved by a majority of voters—including African Americans—in that state. In addition, each state was required to ratify the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
Designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. Failed in the Senate
What was the Wilmot Proviso?