The US and the World
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
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 U.S. worked out a deal with this country to acquire the southern half of Oregon Territory
What is Great Britain?
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 strategy to surround the South to cut off aid and trade during the Civil War
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What are abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights for all men?
Senator who was beaten by a cane on the floor of Congress for speaking out against slavery
Who was Charles Sumner?
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union the most
What is the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
A form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
What is sharecropping?
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 that makes evident the existence of economic inequality and class warfare
What are the Draft Riots in NYC?
The underlying political question that plagued all laws and decisions leading up to the Civil War - and how it was resolved by both the war and then by the end of Reconstruction
What is federal v state power war = federal over state end of Reconstruction = state over federal
At least three compromises Congress agreed on with regard to the westward expansion of slavery.
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act
Three major events caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Bloody Kansas (or Bleeding 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 are 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