APUSH 1
The idea that it is America's God given right and duty to spread American people and ideals from sea to shining sea.
Manifest Destiny
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?
States that maintained slaves, but remained in the Union during the Civil War.
What are border states?
This outlawed slavery in the entire US
What was the 13th Amendment
This amendment finalized the right to citizenship for all born in the US and equal protection under the law.
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision regarding California statehood.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Tried to start an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
Originally proposed by a Democrat from Illinois that allowed the decision of slavery within a territory to be decided upon by the settlers of the area.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The government's offer of 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?
What was the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
This book painted the owners of slaves as monsters and helped the abolitionist movement in the early 1850s.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Important members included Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner.
Who were the Radical Republicans
In 1854, this increased sectional tension because it allowed the people to choose whether or not to become a slave or free state through popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska act?
The creation of the laws in southern states after the war led to the rise of Radical Republicans.
What are the Black Codes
By the 1870s, groups in this movement seriously threatened the success of Reconstruction.
What was the Redemption movement
In this incident, a proslavery Congressman beat another Congressman with his cane on the floor of the Senate, gravely injuring him.
What is the Sumner-Brooks Incident?
The addition of this, which southern states strongly supported, was an important aspect of the Compromise of 1850
What was the Fugitive Slave Act
This was a primary cause for Lincoln's delay in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is fear of border state secession
This government agency was instrumental in helping to assist both Black and white southerners after the war to find housing and fair employment contracts.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
What was the Panic of 1873
Because of the rules set by this, the Mexican Cession increased sectional conflict in the US.
What was the 36-30 line (1820 Missouri Compromise)
This SCOTUS case decision overturned the MO Compromise and threatened to violate states' rights in the north.
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?
Despite its initial veto by President Johnson (overriden by Congress), this law protected the citizenship and protection of African Americans.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866
This SCOTUS decision ruled that protections and legal rights associated with the 14th amendment applied only to issues of federal abuse, not states.
What are the Slaughterhouse Cases of 1873