Opposition to Slavery
This former slave was the leading voice in the abolitionist movement, his slave narrative gaining national attention and creating outrage in the North against the institution
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This Democratic president spearheaded Manifest Destiny into the West, provoking war with Mexico and gaining the Oregon Territory
Who was James K. Polk?
This executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in the rebelling Southern states, fundamentally transforming the Civil War into a conflict over slavery rather than merely preserving the Union
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This slavery-like system emerged following the abolition of slavery, where poor farmers, both black and white, would rent land and tools in exchange for giving up most of their harvest to wealthy landowners
What was sharecropping?
These religious communities, named after the 1516 Thomas More book, built off the Second Great Awakening to created unity in a time of marketplace individualism
What were utopian communities?
This book by white abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe intensified the anti-slavery sentiment in the North, revealing the inhumanity of the institution to moderates and inflaming tensions
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The landmark decision by the Supreme Court under Roger Taney in this case declared that black people were not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
This Pennsylvania battle between the armies under General Robert E. Lee and General George G. Meade was the deadliest ever in North America, ending Lee's campaign in the North
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This revolutionary act was passed by the Radical Republican Congress in 1866, establishing birthright citizenship and that people regardless of race were equal before the law
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This event caused rapid migration both domestically and from abroad to the West, attracting hundreds of thousands of young men hoping to get rich quick
What was the California gold rush?
This famous white abolitionist wrote in The Liberator against slavery, promoting the elimination of the system through moral suasion, even advocating for the secession of the North
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This Democratic Illinois senator fomented his idea of popular sovereignty, helping to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and was the Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860
Who was Stephen A. Douglas?
Lincoln avoided attacking slavery in the Union in order to not alienate this group of loyal slave states, including Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri
What were the border states?
This domestic terrorist and white supremacist group committed several lynchings of free black people and murdering their white allies in the South, only being ended through the Enforcement Acts
What was the First Ku Klux Klan?
This 1848 gathering in upstate New York, headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, gathered feminists to discuss the issue of woman suffrage
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This political party, led by Martin Van Buren, sought to prevent the further expansion of slavery westward, arguing it limited the labor opportunities of the Northern white workers
What was the Free Soil Party?
This provision of the Compromise of 1850 not only alienated the Northern states, which opposed the institution of slavery, but also demonstrated a hypocrisy of the Southern rhetoric of states' rights
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
In order to prevent criticisms of the war effort by the Copperheads, Lincoln ordered hundreds of arbitrary arrests by suspending this fundamental American legal right
What is habeas corpus?
This Democratic president, ascending after Lincoln's assassination by John Wilkes Booth, was often at odds with the Radical Republican Congress and was ultimately impeached
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This white middle-class female-dominated movement advocated for the reduction in alcohol consumption in the United States
What was the temperance movement?
Radical white abolitionist John Brown attempted to provoke a slave insurrection by seizing the federal armory in this Virginia town
What is Harper's Ferry?
This violent conflict, caused as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, saw several massacres between pro-slavery and anti-slavery elements
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This Confederate political strategy attempted to garner support from the United Kingdom and France by imposing an embargo and withholding exports
What was "King Cotton diplomacy?"
This government agency helped to establish institutions of education and healthcare in the South for the freed African-Americans, but it ultimately failed in providing them land ownership
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This political party, including former president Millard Fillmore, was dedicated to restricting office to native-born Americans, opposing the immigration of Irish and German Catholics
What was the Know Nothing Party/American Party?