Westward Expansion
The land given to the United States after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
He was the General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This minority group of pacifist Christians were also staunchly against slavery.
Who are the Quakers?
The final event that led to the secession by South Carolina and eventually several other southern states.
What is the Election of 1860?
This is the meaning of the 13th amendment.
What is, to end all slavery?
These two rivers comprised the northern and southern borders of the disputed zone of Texas.
What are the Nueces and Rio Grande?
This was the name of the presidential decree that nominally ended slavery in all rebel territories.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was the founder of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, claiming over 50,000 deaths in a matter of days.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This is the meaning of the 15th amendment.
What is, to guarantee universal male suffrage?
This 1862 law granted settlers 160 acres of land for committing 5 years of improving it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This was a key victory for the Union Army that gave them control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This novel by Harriett Beecher Stowe greatly heated the national debate over slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This major battle was the "win" that Lincoln needed to keep France and Britain from entering the war.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
This was implemented in the South after the Radical Republicans took control over Reconstructions from President Johnson.
What is Military Reconstruction?
Who was Lewis Cass?
A speech by President Lincoln that reaffirmed the new purpose of the war and encouraged Americans the war was needed to fulfill Americas Democratic ideals.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This event led to the execution of John Brown, and the further inflammation of tension between free and slave states.
What is the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
These were the outcomes of the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
What are: 1) black people are not citizens and therefore cannot sue in court; 2) the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional?
This is the meaning of the 14th amendment.
What is: 1) Guarantees citizenship to all individuals naturalized or born in the U.S.; 2) guarantees due process and equal protection of the law?
These three major components comprised the Compromise of 1850.
What are 1) making California a free state; 2) allowing popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territories; and 3) new fugitive slave act?
These were Northern politicians who were against President Lincoln and the war.
Who are the Copperheads or Peace Democrats?
The passage of this law stimulated the creation of the Republican Party, which opposed the expansion of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is the meaning of the writ of habeas corpus.
What is the right to not be held in custody indefinitely and without cause?
This was the law which Andrew Johnson broke, leading to his impeachment trial.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?