The US and the World
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
Manifest Destiny
In this speech, Lincoln stated that slavery either must be allowed everywhere in the Union, or nowhere - it can't be split down the middle
A House Divided
The biggest cause for slavery becoming America's #1 political issue
Territorial expansion
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
Radical Republicans
White settlers in the West were greatly aided by this Civil War-era law
What is the Homestead Act
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
popular sovereignty
The strategies that effectively stifled (limited) Southern resources
Anaconda Plan
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
American empresario who brought settlers to Texas and aided in the eventual Texas revolution
Stephen F. Austin
The first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
Dred Scott
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
This allowed a farmer to rent land from a planter, but usually resulted in a cycle of endless debt
sharecropping
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
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war
railroads
The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
The Civil War event that makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare
Draft Riots in NYC
President who was almost impeached due to his opposition to Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
A territory gained in result of the diplomatic initiative of the United States to gain access to the Pacific Ocean
Oregon
The three main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
What are the Bible, racial inferiority/superiority, and women in industry
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
Its goal was to discourage foreign assistance to the Confederacy, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war to slavery
Emancipation Proclamation
Three pieces of evidence the South tried to undo Reconstruction's efforts to aid emancipated blacks
Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Redeemers