Expansion
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
What was decided in the Kansas Nebraska Act?
split territory
allow popular sovereignty
first major battle of the war that showed each side that it would be a much longer war than anticipated
battle of bull run
13th amendment said
Slavery is illegal (except for prisoners)
Radical Republicans would have believed in what types of things?
Civil Rights for All, Anti-Slavery, Harsh Punishment on Southerners, Equality, Universal Male Suffrage
54, 40 or fight
polk's slogan to gain the oregon territory from britain
What is one of the most well known books written to expose the treatment of enslaved peoples in America?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Advantages held by the Confederacy
unity around a cause
homeland advantage
defensive war
The Homestead Act of 1862 said
The federal government would give you 160 acres for free to homestead and farm on (mostly out west in new territories)
What new political party came from the Kansas Nebraska act?
Republican party
event that encouraged migration to California
gold rush
The caning of Sumner will happen because of disagreements over what piece of legislation?
The Kansas Nebraska Act
4 phase plan used by Union
Anaconda Plan-block southern ports
Take Mississippi
take Richmond
total warfare
what were black codes
Laws passed to limit the Black community
The passage of the 14th amendment would directly reverse what decision?
Dred Scott Case
group that went out west for religious reasons
Mormons
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the South get? Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the North get?
Passing new fugitive slave laws, popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico
Adding California as a free state, no slave trade in DC
How did the Emancipation proclamation change the war?
changed it to a moral war
Lincoln's ten percent plan
only 10 percent of a state's population swear allegiance to be readmitted into the union
What does the 14th amendment say?
Citizenship to people (1) born in the US (2) naturalized. (Except Native Americans)
Equal protection for everyone under the law.
The land won from the Mexican American War intensified what?
sectional tensions
What was the decision in the Dred Scott case?
1. Dred Scott couldn't sue in court because he wasn't a citizen
2. The gov can't deprive people of their "property"
3. The decision allowed slavery in the territories
Extra points: What legislation was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott case?
Turning point battle that won the Union the victory
Vicksburg
What legislation protected the citizenship and protection of African Americans? (Hint: it was vetoed by Johnson, but overridden by Congress)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Advantages of the Union during the war
industry
transportation
people