Secession
The South's view on secession
It was necessary when the South wasn't getting represented how they wanted, and when Lincoln became president.
manifest destiny
Moving west, using religion as an excuse to expand further into america
volunteers
At the beginning of the war, the north only got soldiers from them volunteering and so many people volunteered that they had to turn them down.
british
advantage: british would help the south by building confederate ships and breaking the naval blockade so they could get cotton from the south
habeaus corpus
President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, which was a petition that required police to present prisoners before the court to examine the legality of their arrest. Lincoln suspended it so that pro-Confederacy people might be arrested.
california goldrush
mass migration of people to california because they wanted to find gold. Many ended up with nothing!
industry/economy
Advantage: the North was more industrialized and not as rural as the South, they had factories and railroads that ultimately helped them win.
Slave states still in the Union
lincolns emancipation proclammation
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln, declared that slaves who were still in Confederate states could be free.
Louisianna purchase
America gained land west of the missispi river from france which almost doubled americas land.. lewis and clark i pick clark
military
trail of tears
While America was moving west, it encountered native tribes along the way and needed to relocate them elsewhere, which led to the Trail of Tears.
homestead act
A law signed in 1842 that would grant 160 acres of almost free land to anyone who settled on the land and improved the land. This heavily encouraged migration and the westward expansion