Westward Expansion
Manifest Destiny
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Which invention made cotton the largest cash crop?
Double: Who invented it?
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Antietam
New political party that emerged in the 1800's. Attracted Northern Whigs, Democrats who hated the KS/NE Act, Free Soil Party members, and abolitionists (very NORTHERN)
Republican Party
Law that stated slavery would NEVER exist in the land gained by the US during the Mexican American War; was shot down in Congress initially, but later accepted after the Civil War
Wilmot Proviso
Known as the "Great Compromiser", this slave-owning politician agreed to limit slavery in the new Texas territory but argued for stronger fugitive slave laws.
Henry Clay
Name two of the four provisions of the Compromise of 1850.
Double points if you can name all four.
A new, stricter Fugitive Slave Law
Admission of CA as a free state
Popular sovereignty in NM and UT
Banned the slave trade in Washington DC
Bloodiest battle in US history where the South tried to invade the North. Three day battle
Double: what was the name of the deadly Southern attempt to charge the Union during this battle in which they lost 50% of their men?
Gettysburg; Pickett's Charge
Union General who used a tactic known as "total war" where he burned the state of GA to the ground. (must know first, middle and last name)
William Tecumseh Sherman
Why did Mexicans have issues with Americans who settled in the Mexican territory of Texas (modern day NM, CA, and TX)? (only need one reason)
Mexican regulatory laws which required people living in Mexico to:
Become Mexican citizens
Convert to Roman Catholicism
File all documents in Spanish
End slavery
President from 1845-1849; Led the US to victory in the Mexican American War
James K. Polk
Religious movement that inspired many enslaved people to follow Christianity during the 1800s
Second Great Awakening
What were two advantages the North had during the Civil War?
What was one advantage the South had?
North: population, factories, rail, industry, etc.
African American abolitionists from the American Colonization Society formed the colony of Monrovia in 1817 as a refuge for freedmen. What is the name of this modern day country?
Liberia
Which battle did Americans famously lose against the Mexicans during the Mexican American War?
Double Points: Which battle did Sam Houston lead Americans to victory and ultimately Texas' independence from Mexico in?
Alamo; San Jacinto
Future American president (elected in 1848) who famously incited fighting in the Mexican American War by provoking the Mexicans at the Rio Grande?
Zachary Taylor
Which law repealed the earlier Missouri Compromise (1820), which many Americans were beginning to resent? Why did it repeal the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act: Proposed that NE and KS would be entered as states and use popular sovereignty to decide on slavery
Both were above the 36-30 line, so it repealed the Missouri Compromise
Explain the Anaconda Plan in your own words
Cut off all Souther sea ports; starve them out
Split the south down the middle by taking over the Mississippi River
Political Party led by future president Martin Van Buren; anti-slavery
Free Soil Party
What was the long term consequence of Texas being added to the United States as a territory?
Double: Name the treaty that ended the Mexican American War.
Greater regional tensions between North and South, leading to the Civil War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Became president when President Tyler died. President who oversaw the Compromise of 1850.
Millard Fillmore
Why did the first seven states secede in 1860?
Which seven were the first to secede?
Where was the official beginning of the Civil War?
(must know all)
Lincoln was elected/inaugurated
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama
Fort Sumter, SC
Who did Lincoln choose as his running mate in the Election of 1864 and why? What negative consequences did this decision have in the long term?
Andrew Johnson; slave holder, chose him to appeal to Southerners and win; Johnson would be president during the start of Reconstruction and allowed former slave holders to take violent power in the South
Former Union General who ran against Lincoln in the 1864 Presidential Election (had previously been fired by Lincoln and replaced by Grant as general by Lincoln for being "too soft" on the South)
George McClellan