Expansion
The belief that it is America's God given right to expand West.
Manifest Destiny
Name for murder/violence in Kansas Territory over proposed statehood
"Bleeding Kansas"
Novel that turned attitudes against slavery; written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Term that means to break away; SC was the first
Secede
MA senator; caned violently till unconscious on floor of Senate
Charles Sumner
Allowed ME in as a free state, MO as a slave state
Missouri Compromise (1820)
CA enters as free state; UT & NV will decide slavery via popular sovereignty. Outlaws slave trade
Compromise of 1850
Sport developed by Abner Doubleday during Civil War
Baseball
Bloodiest battle of Civil War; also the turning point
Gettysburg
Lincoln's Assassin
John Wilkes Booth
Term for states deciding for themselves whether to be slave or free
Popular Sovereignty
Amendment that outlaws slavery
13th
Site of Lincoln's Assassination
Ford's Theater
Site of Lee's surrender
Appomattox Courthouse
Mr. Fischer's favorite American hero
John Adams
President who added most land to US; 1845-1849
James K. Polk
Amendment that gave African-American men the right to vote
15th
Poet who authored Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Lincoln's first choice for commander of the Union Army
Robert E. Lee
Lee's right-hand man; died at Battle of Fredricksburg
Stonewall Jackson
Area of land won by US in Mexican-American War; future states of CA, NM, AZ, TX, CO, UT
Mexican Cession
Hero of Mexican-American War; 12th President who died in office in 1852.
Zachary Taylor
Gathering of women to discuss suffrage and abolition; New York (1848)
Seneca Falls Convention
Bloodiest single day of Civil War
Antietam
Percentage of US population that died in Civil War
2%