Manifest Destiny
The belief that the U.S. should conquer the West.
What is manifest destiny?
These people wanted slavery to end.
Who are abolitionists?
This law allowed popular sovereignty for slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The South's economy was based mainly on this.
What is agriculture?
This violent hate group was formed by ex-Confederates after the Civil War and used violent tactics to intimidate newly freed slaves.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
These people had their land taken from them in the West.
Who are Native Americans?
The belief that native-born Americans are superior to immigrants.
What is nativism?
This political party was only present in the North and campaigned on not allowing slavery in the western territories.
What is the Republican Party?
This side had a much higher population during the Civil War.
What is the Union/North?
This farming system was installed in the South after the Civil War and required that farmers give half of their harvest to their landlords.
What is sharecropping?
Winning this conflict caused the U.S. to gain territory in the West.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This law required runaway slaves in the North to be returned to their masters in the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This candidate won the presidential election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This side lost the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy/South?
This change to the Constitution granted voting rights to African American men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This idea would allow settlers in the western territories to vote whether or not they wanted slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Immigrants from these two countries made up the majority of immigrants before the Civil War.
What is Germany and Ireland?
This event caused the secession of the Southern states.
What is the election of 1860?
This decision by Abraham Lincoln ordered slaves in rebellious territories to be freed.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This change to the Constitution made African Americans citizens of the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This political agreement was orchestrated by Henry Clay and admitted California as a free state, adopted a Fugitive Slave Law, and allowed popular sovereignty over slavery in the Utah and New Mexico territories.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This man was the viewed as the leader of the Black abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This state was created and added to the Union when they voted not to secede from the Union.
What is West Virginia?
These people were accepted into the Union Army after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who are runaway slaves?
These laws were adopted by many Southern states and prevented African Americans from exercising their civil rights.
What are Black Codes?