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
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags both had this in common.
What is both supported Reconstruction in the South.
Carpetbaggers: Northern Republicans who moved South to hold political office/help with reconstruction
Scalawags: White Southerners who supported Reconstruction
States that maintained slaves but also sided with the North during the Civil War were called this.
What are border states?
This change to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the United States in 1865
What is the 13th amendment?
Founded in 1854 by antislavery Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, and Know-Nothings from the North and West.
What is the Republican Party?
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision regarding California statehood.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Who started an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
The political concept that the residents of a territory should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery when applying for statehood
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Laws passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people.
What were the Black Codes?
After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his oratory and antislavery writing
Who is Frederick Douglass.
This book painted the owners of slaves as monsters and helped the abolitionist movement in the early 1850s:
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Debate over this legislative decision led to violence in the West and violence in the legislature itself.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
A conflict between Mexico and Texas regarding the border lines. The resolution to the disagreement gave America current-day New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Mexico was rewarded reparations in the sum of $15 million.
What is the Mexican American War?
The most direct catalyst/reason for the secession of South Carolina.
What is the election of Lincoln in 1860.
This is a form of farming that tied newly freed slaves to the land they work and tried to limit the social mobility of newly freed slaves.
What is sharecropping
This constitutional amendment gave all African American men the right to suffrage in 1870
What is the 15th Amendment?
This federal organization help former slaves find jobs, housing, and education after the end of slavery
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This finally convinced the French and English that they could definitely not recognize or support the Confederate States of America.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
**One reason Lincoln was hesitant to issue the Emancipation Proclamation was he was afraid it would cause the border states to secede.
The President after Lincoln was assassinated, he was impeached for violating the tenure of office act but acquitted, attempted a lenient version of reconstruction
Who was Andrew Johnson
Defined citizenship for a freeman born in the U.S. It disallowed states to take away the basic rights and privileges of the people.
What is the 14th amendment
The Mexican cession would force debate about the rules designed in this earlier legislation.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Most of the new territory was below the 36°30' line, making slavery more of an issue.
One of it's major points was that Congress had no authority to bar slavery from a territory nor interfere with southerners' rights to bring slaves into western territories.
What is the Dred Scott case.
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 ended the period of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877-ushered in the Jim Crow Era
Speech that marked a turning point in the Civil War: from a war to preserve the Union to a war for a United States free of slavery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?