Westward Expansion
This term refers to the American belief that they had a god-given right to spread their country across the whole continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
This state was admitted to the country as a slave state in 1820 on the condition that subsequent states above the 36-30 parallel would be free states.
What is Missouri?
1860 election of this president spurred South Carolina's secession from the Union
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
These laws, passed in southern states and towns in the two years after the Civil War, limited the rights and freedoms of African Americans (until they were overturned in 1866)
What are the Black Codes?
This organization, initially composed of former confederate soldiers, engaged in a campaign of violence, terror and intimidation in order to limit the rights of freedpeople
What is the KKK?
This 1836 annexation spread slavery into a former Mexican territory and increased tensions between the U.S. and Mexico
What is the annexation of Texas?
The use of the Underground Railroad was in direct conflict with this law passed by the United States.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This president took over after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and oversaw Reconstruction
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This constitutional amendment promised equal protection and due process for all Americans regardless of race, and extended citizenship rights to African Americans (and anyone else born in the United States)
What is the 14th amendment?
The constitutional amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
This 1848 discovery in California brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad
What is the California gold rush?
In this 1857 Supreme Court case the Court decided that African Americans were not citizens or eligible for any rights
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
These people were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
Who were the enslaved people in the states that had rebelled against the union (except they didn't actually listen to Lincoln)?
Some accomplishments of the freedmen's bureau (list at least 2)
Helping freedpeople establish schools, purchase land, locate family members, legalize marriages, as well as providing food and clothing, operating hospitals and temporary camps, and witnessing labor contracts between freedmen and plantation owners or other employers.
The organization that promoted and spread the "Lost Cause" mythology in the aftermath of the Civil War
What is the United Daughters of the Confederacy?
5 states that were part of the Mexican Cession
What are: California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona, Colorado, parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming?
(any 5 for credit)
This book spread awareness of slavery to many in the North and was credited by president Lincoln for starting the war
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The president of the confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Sharecropping
What is the system of labor where a tenant farmer works a landowner's land in exchange for a share of the crop's profits? (in reality, unfair labor contracts under this system kept African Americans in a cycle of debt and poverty)
An assault by violent abolitionists that that seized a federal armory in Virginia in 1859
Who is John Brown / what is the Attack on Harper's Ferry?
The sum that the U.S. paid Mexico in exchange for the ceded lands
What is $15 million?
This refers to the 7 year mini war over slavery and popular sovereignty in two western territories
What is bleeding Kansas?
This Republican president's tenure was filled with scandals and accusations of corruption during Reconstruction
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This ended Reconstruction and led the federal government to withdraw troops from the South
What was the Compromise of 1877? (OR election of 1876)
A document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain, which had long been a goal of U.S. slaveholding expansionists
What is the Ostend Manifesto?