Key Concept 5.1
brought tens of thousands of men into the western mountains
what is the mining boom?
invented the sewing machine
who is Elias Howe?
four other slaveholding states might have seceded, but instead remained in the Union
Lincoln rallied Americans to the idea that their nation was “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”
what is the Gettysburg Address?
abolished slavery
what is the 13th amendment?
expressed the popular belief that the US had a divine mission to extend its power & civilization across the breadth of North America
what is the manifest destiny?
invented the electric telegraph
who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
what is South Carolina?
led a force of one hundred thousand Union soldiers on a campaign of deliberate destruction through Georgia and South Carolina
who is Union General William Tecumseh Sherman?
declared that all person born or naturalized in the US were citizens and obligated the states to respect the rights of US citizens and provide them with “equal protection of the laws” and “due process of law”
what is the 14th amendment?
ended the Mexican War, Mexico recognized the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas
what is the Treaty
America’s largest industry
founded in Wisconsin in 1854
what is the Republican party?
during the Civil War, they supported the war but criticized Lincoln’s conduct of it
who are Democrats?
prohibits any state from denying or abridging a citizen’s right to vote “on account of race, color, or pervious condition of servitude
what is the 15th amendment?
promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offering parcels of 160 acres of public land free to any person or family that formed that land for at least 5 years
what is the Homestead Act?
the fabled network of conductors and stations, was a loose network of Northern free blacks and courageous ex-slaves, wits th help of some white abolitionists, who helped escaped slaves reach freedom in the North or in Canada
what is the Underground Railroa?
was the Republican presidential nominee for the election of 1856
who is John C. Fremont?
enlarged the purpose of the war
what is the Emancipation Proclamation?
placed the South under military occupation
what are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
authorized the building of a transcontinental railroad over a northern route in order to link the economies of California and the western territories with the eastern states
what is the Pacific Railway Act?
the most influential book of its day was a novel about the the conflict between an enslaved man named Tom and the brutal white slave owner Simon Legree
what is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
the candidate in the election of 1860 who could carry the key Midwestern states
who is Abraham Lincoln?
in Maryland was a draw on the battlefield, so the Confederates failed to gain open recognition and aid from a foreign power
what is the Battle of Antietam?
the Supreme Court upheld segregation laws when it upheld a Louisiana law requiring “separate but equal accommodations” for white and black passengers on the railroads
what is the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?