The idea that justified American expansion westward as something that was inevitable
What is Manifest Destiny
The discovery of this in California inspired a mass migration of Americans to the West.
What is gold
This first document changed the purpose of the war for the Union. This second document sought to make the first document permanent.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment
This first term is a northerner who came down South to help further the cause of Reconstruction.
This second term is a southerner who profited from Reconstruction
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags
The official name for the purchase of land along the U.S.-Mexico border? Mostly in present day Arizona
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Two advantages the South had in the Civil War
What are trained officers, and defensive war
An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by using moral arguments to challenge it.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison or What is Uncle "Tom's Cabin"
This government entity was created to help successfully transition former slaves into their new lives
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A speech by President Lincoln that reaffirmed the new purpose of the war and encouraged Americans the war was needed to fulfill Americas Democratic ideals.
What is the Gettysburg Address
This proposed law would have made slavery completely illegal in all new territories gained from the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This Supreme Court decision declared free blacks were not citizens of the United States and could not sue for freedom.
What is the Dred Scott Decision
The occupation many freed blacks were forced into due to the Black codes and Southern discrimination.
What is sharecropping?