Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
President who wanted to expand the land of the U.S.; Opposite of Henry Clay
Who was James K. Polk?
"Old Immigrants" came from these two countries?
What are Germany and Ireland?
This event led to the succession of South Carolina
What was the Election of 1860?
What was Total War?
Made slavery illegal in the United States
What was the 13th Amendment?
Battle during the Texas Revolution where every single American died
What was the Battle of the Alamo?
belief that Native-born Americans are superior to immigrants, deserving of more opportunities (economic,
What is Nativism?
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Provided support for recently freed slaves through education, food, jobs
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Provided 160 Acres of free land to anyone who was willing to farm it
What was the Homestead Act?
Often migrated to cities with known populations of immigrants from same country of origin
What were ethnic enclaves?
Opposed the expansion of slavery because it took white jobs away (no actual moral objections)
What was the Free Soil Movement?
It was given at the dedication ceremony for battle casualties during the Civil War
Southerners who sides with Republicans and often moved to the North
Who were Scalawags?
Agreement where America gains the "Southwest"
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
New political party that was anti-immigrant
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
Agreement on how to deal with Slavery with the land from the Mexican Cession
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Location of the Surrender of Robert E. Lee
What was the Appomattox Court House?
When Republican Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to end reconstruction into order to win Southern electoral college votes
What was the "Great Betrayal?"
Granted federal land in the West to build public universities
What was the Morrill Land Grant Act?
Who were Chinese Immigrants?
It was an attempt by Congress to prevent war and bring back states in rebellion
What was the Crittenden Compromise?
happened in Georgia, it was a scorched-earth policy, burn farms of Confederate civilians
What was Sherman's "March to the Sea"?
The federal gov't response to laws that violated civil rights during Reconstruction; meant to prosecute crimes
What was the Enforcement Act of 1877?