Immigration and Expansion
This ideology encompasses expansion on the basis of cultural, religious, and racial superiority.
What is manifest destiny
The wave of violence following the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) is called...
"Bleeding Kansas"
This event was the catalyst for the South's secession.
What is Lincoln's winning of the 1860 presidential election
This agency was created by the United States Congress in 1865 to set up schools and churches, supply food and clothing, and solve employment issues for the former slaves.
What is The Freedmen's Bureau
Through this act, the United States government encouraged expansion and economic development by giving native-born citizens and immigrants 160 acres of "public land."
The Homestead Act of 1862
This compromise addressed the legality of slavery within the newly acquired territories after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Compromise of 1850
These were the goals of the Anaconda Plan.
1. Prevent trade and hurt the south's economy
2. Gain control of the Mississippi River
These Reconstruction-era laws and system codified white supremacy and perpetuated "de facto" slavery
Black Codes, Sharecropping
What was the immediate cause of the Mexican-American war (1846-1848)
Annexation of Texas
An idea used in the Compromise of 1850 that allowed citizens in new territories to vote and decide if they wanted to accept or prohibit slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty
The Emancipation Proclamation excluded the liberation of enslaved people in these territories.
What are Union territories
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments addressed...
What are: abolishing slavery, citizenship and equal protection, and voting rights
The Know-Nothing party was known for its adherence to this ideology.
Nativism
The two main points of the Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) decision were...
What are: African-Americans could not be citizens, Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
This speech features the quote: ". . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
What is the Gettysburg Address
What accelerated the end of Reconstruction?
The Panic of 1873
This 1876 battle over a broken treaty resulted in Sioux and Cheyenne defeating the US Army.
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Wilmot Proviso laid the ideological foundation for this anti-slavery party.
The Civil War event that exemplifies continuity of economic inequality and class warfare
What are the Draft Riots (1863)
This president was impeached after repeatedly blocking the Republican-majority congress's reconstruction efforts.
Who is Andrew Johnson