Increasing Tensions
This idea was seen as the reason for the United States to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Compromise of 1850 highlighted the sectional divide and inevitable Civil War. In an attempt to quell these tensions Henry Clay proposed this compromise which included these 4 parts.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law, California would be admitted to the Union as a free state, the slave trade would end in Washington DC, and the newly admitted Southwestern states would use popular sovereignty to decide if slavery was legal in their state or not?
This battle was the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
Abraham Lincoln suspended this privilege during the Civil war that allowed many people to be imprisoned without a trial.
What is the writ of habeus corpus?
This man became the president after Lincoln's assassination, however he was almost removed from office because after he challenged the Tenure of Office Act and dismissed Edwin Stanton.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This slogan was the presidential campaign slogan of James K Polk.
What is Fifty-Four Forty or Fight?
This state seceded first from the Union after Lincoln won the Election of 1860 even though his name was not on the ballot in Southern States.
What is South Carolina?
This strategy, developed by Winfield Scott, was the Union strategy to blockade Southern ports and cut off essential supplies from reaching the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, also known as The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, required if this percent of a confederate state's population to take loyalty oaths to be readmitted to the Union.
What is 10 percent?
This amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens and had equal protection under the law and due process of law.
What is the 14th amendment?
This man overthrew Mexican rule and named the new republic the Bear Flag Republic.
Who is John C. Fremont?
This senator was instrumental in passing the compromise that would allow a railroad to pass through his native city of Chicago.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
These 2 battles marked the turning point in the Civil War when the Confederacy suffered two crushing defeats in the West and East.
What is Vicksburg and Gettysburg?
This group of northerners went to the south to provide aid to Black and White Americans left destitute by the war.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This bill was the congressional reconstruction policy that required 50% of the voters of a state to take a loyalty oath and no Confederates could vote for a state constitution in order to be readmitted to the Union.
What is the Wade- Davis bill?
This general received orders from President Polk to cross the Nueces into Mexican territory and start the Mexican American War.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
Who was the chief justice of the Supreme Court during the key Dred Scot court case.
Who is Roger Taney?
This battle symbolized a turning point in naval warfare, ironclad ships would replace wooden ones.
What is Monitor v Merrimac?
General Lee surrendered to the Union on this day at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.
What is April 9th, 1865?
This compromise settled the debate over the election of 1876 in which Rutherford B Hayes would become president if he would end federal support of Republicans in the south, and support the building of a Southern transcontinental railroad.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This proposed law in the newly acquired territory gained from the Mexican American war, highlighted the growing sectional divide over slavery in the United States.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
What was the doctrine that would allow slavery in Kansas submitted by the Southern legislature that President Buchanan supported but it did not pass in Congress.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
This was the crisis when Britain almost sided with Confederacy after the Union captured Confederate diplomats on their way to Britain to gain recognition from the government.
What is the Trent affair?
After jumping off the balcony after assassinating President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth yelled this phrase in Latin, meaning "thus always be to tyrants".
What is Sic semper tyrannis?
In this affair insiders of the stock market give stock to influential members of Congress to avoid investigation of the profits they were making.
What is the Credit Mobilier affair?