The US and the World
This informal network created to help runaway slaves escape to the North infuriated the South and contributed to the need for the Compromise of 1850.
What was the Underground Railroad
Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its legality in this area
What is the territories
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
Who is John Brown
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
The strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
The discovery of gold in California encouraged this appropriately named group of white settlers and immigrants to move west.
Who are 49er's
The name given to a proposal outlined by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that provided a loophole to prevent slavery in western territories.
What is the Freeport Doctrine
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg
The causation of the sharecropping system in the South (causes and effect)
What is need for workers and need for land resulting in economic dependency
Whigs in the Senate rejected this treaty, which effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war
What are railroads
The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
What is enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
The Civil War event in the North that makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare during the war
What are the Draft Riots in NYC
Many women split from the abolition/civil rights movement over the passage of these laws.
What are the 14th and 15th amendment
The slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight" was used by President Polk to rally support during a territorial dispute with Great Britain over this territory.
What is Oregon
The three main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons
Three major events caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Bloody Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, and the formation of the Republican Party
The threefold purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war
Three pieces of evidence supporting the claim that Reconstruction was a time of conflict over new definitions of citizenship
What is the Slaughterhouse cases, Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, the Colfax massacre, the White League, the split in the Women's Rights movement, Hiram Revels