The US and the World
This was a widely held belief that incorporating new territory in North America was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny?
Immigrants arrived primarily from these countries, making up the bulk of northern factory workers.
What are Germany and Ireland?
This amendment to an appropriations bill attempted to ban slavery in all new territory acquired from the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states.
What is the election of 1860/the election of Lincoln?
This group believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment for the Civil War.
Who are Radical Republicans?
The Ku Klux Klan's primary goal was this.
What is deny African Americans voting rights/political participation?
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law that gave 160 acre of federal land to settlers.
What is the Homestead Act?
This bloody incident resulted from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, resulting from conflict over the status of salvery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The belief that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery in the territories is better known as this.
What is popular sovereignty, or what is squatter sovereignty.
The two strategies that effectively cut off Southern exports/imports and destroyed southern infrastructure.
What are the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March/Total War.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments did these things.
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights to black men.
These deragatory terms were used to refer to White northerners coming to the south to help with Reconstruction, and white southerners assisting Reconstrucion respectively.
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
Territory that we agreed to split with Great Britain at the 54 40 line.
What is Oregon?
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, shined light on the realities of slavery to northerners.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The Supreme Court decision in Dredd Scott v. Sanford did these two things.
What are excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States and deemed the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
Military Reconstruction saw this form of organization in the south.
What is divided into 5 military districts and overseen by Union generals?
This system saw African Americans working for the same plantation owners they had before, and ultimately left them in debt and dependent on white landowners.
What is sharecropping?
This incident saw John Brown hung and seen as a martyr by Northern abolitionists, and increased fear by southerners that the north was attempting to destroy them.
What John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry?
This act divided territory from the Louisiana Purchase and said slavery would be decided there by popular sovereignty, increasing tensions over slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Civil War event that serves as an example of discontent and class conflict in the North over the war.
What are the New York City Draft Riots?
This Reconstruction agency was tasked with reuniting separated African American families as well as providing an education to Black people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These all-white governments saw the return of former confederates to positions of power and African Americans marginalized.
What are redeemer governments?
The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny can be linked to this belief - a continuity from colonial times
What is white racial/cultural superiority
This incident saw the violence over slavery in America spill into the halls of Congress.
What is the caning of Charles Sumner?
Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 was made up of these four parts.
What are the admission of California as a free state, the banning of the slave trade in Washington D.C., that the territories acquired by the Mexican American War would decide slavery by popular sovereignty, and the enforcement of a stricter fugitive slave law.
This famous speech both solidified the changed goals of the war, as well as helped deny the Confederacy foreign support.
What is the Gettysburg Address
The passage of the 15th amendment saw the split of the Women's suffrage movement into these two groups.
What is the National Woman Suffrage Organization (NWSA) and American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
This event effectively ended Reconstruction in the South, leaving African Americans at the mercy of white southerners.
What is the Compromise of 1877?