1830s-1840s
These two words complete the following quote by John L. O'Sullivan: "And that claim is by the right of our ________ ________ to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty."
What is manifest destiny?
The Compromise of 1850 involved the passage of a harsh Fugitive Slave Act to counteract the admission of this free state
What is California?
The Union victory at the battle of Antietam in September 1862 led Lincoln to draft this important document as a "war measure"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Scottish immigrant built the US Steel corporation through vertical integration, and was aided by the Bessemer process
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This man served one term as president during the 1840s, during which the US won the Mexican War and settled the Oregon Territory dispute
Who is James K. Polk?
This man's 1859 raid of the arsenal at Harper's Ferry aroused the suspicions of slave-owning Southerners
Who is John Brown?
One day after the Union victory at the battle of Gettysburg, the South surrendered at this other "-burg" on the Mississippi River, an event viewed by some historians as the true turning point of the war
What is Vicksburg?
Johnson clashed often with this group of senators, led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, who wanted him to be more aggressive in punishing the South for their misdeeds
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This 1882 law banned immigration from a certain Asian nation for ten years; it was not officially repealed until 1943
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton led a famous women's rights convention at this town in upstate New York
What is Seneca Falls?
This 1856 Supreme Court decision caused an uproar in the North regarding the citizenship of freed slaves
What is the Dred Scott decision?
The president of the Confederacy, he had previously been a U.S. senator from Mississippi
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1886 Chicago riot, which occurred when anarchists threw a bomb that killed seven policemen, was a major blow to the Knights of Labor
What is the Haymarket riot?
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too" was the campaign slogan for this man, who would (briefly) become our ninth president in 1841
Who is William Henry Harrison?
Popular sovereignty was controversially implemented in the Midwestern territories by this 1854 law
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Union general's "March to the Sea" in 1864 exemplified the concept of "total war"
Who is William T. Sherman?
This amendment was ratified in 1868 to guarantee the rights of citizenship and equal protection under the law to former slaves
What was the 14th Amendment?
Boss Tweed was the notorious head of this New York Democratic political machine
What was Tammany Hall?
The Liberator was a newspaper created in 1831 by this prominent abolitionist
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 was the most immediate cause of the war; name any one of the three major presidential candidates who lost that election
Who are John Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas?
Complete this quote from the Gettysburg Address: "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not ______ from the earth"
What is perish?
Reconstruction ended in 1877 after a shady back-room deal elevated this Republican to the presidency
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The term "Gilded Age" comes from the name of a novel by this famous American author
Who is Mark Twain?