5.2-5.3
This policy, exemplified by the U.S. moving into new territories such as the Louisiana Purchase, is the practice of acquiring more territory or increasing economic power, often through military force or diplomacy
Expansionism
Man behind the American System and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
This declared that all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. were citizens and that because of that, they were afforded "equal protection of the laws" and "due process of law"
14th Amendment
This influential speech was given after the battle with the greatest amount of loss
Gettysburg Address
This system, meant as a compromise between landowners and freed people ended up keeping freed people in a cycle of debt and dependency.
Sharecropping
"We must gain all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It's a divine mission so we can extend our power and civilization."
Manifest Destiny
This law persuaded many Southerners to accept that California would be a free state as it meant that what they considered to be their property would be returned to them.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Supporters of Lincoln's opponents might have been further upset by his election, since, in spite of winning the electoral vote, he had lost this.
The Popular Vote
While the Confederacy had advantages such as superior military generals and a long coastline that was difficult to blockade, the Union was aided greatly by this advantage.
Larger Population
This agency acted as a welfare group, providing food, shelter, and medical aid for both Black and White Americans negatively impacted by the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau
Agreement made in 1820, which allowed for the addition of one slave state for the addition of another free state and prohibited slavery north of the 36'30' line.
Missouri Compromise
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book shed light on the conditions of slavery in the South.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Political party that backed such candidates as Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford B. Hayes.
Republican Party
This granted African American men the right to vote stating that his right of suffrage could not be prevented "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
Fifteenth Amendment
This was the derisive name for Southern Republicans used by the Democratic party.
Scalawags
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War, making it so Mexico had to recognize the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas and allowed for the buying of the former Mexican provinces of California and New Mexico.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo
This was, perhaps, the main concern about allowing Missouri and other new territories enter as slave states, making it necessary to add an even amount of free states to the Union.
More proslavery seats in Congress
Some viewed him as a martyr when his raid of the federal arsenal failed. Others a crazed abolitionist and poster boy for everything wrong with the movement.
John Brown (Harper's Ferry)
This precursor to the Emancipation Proclamation gave the Union Army power to seize enemy property being used to wage war against the Union and freed persons enslaved by any individual in rebellion against the United States.
Confiscation Acts
This agreement settled the Democratic outrage of the choice to give contested votes to Rutherford B. Hayes and included a promise of support for a Southern transcontinental railroad.
Compromise of 1877
Successful land acquisition of President Pierce. This is a small strip of land found in south New Mexico and Arizona was purchased for it's ideal railroad location.
Gadsden Purchase
This book utilized statistics to show how slavery weakened the South's economy.
Impending Crisis of the South
This was Douglas' response to Lincoln's challenge regarding the Dred Scott decision and popular sovereignty, and stated that slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizens did not pass laws maintaining it.
Freeport Doctrine
This was the basis of the Southern society and was put in jeopardy when General Sherman completed his march, torching everything in his path.
Agrarian (Agricultural) Society
This law passed after Johnson's veto prohibited the president from removing a federal official or military commander without Senate approval.
Tenure of Office Act