Civil War
Provided a morale boost for the North and ended Robert E. Lee's plans to invade the north. And the largest battle fought in the Civil War
What was the battle of Gettysburg?
A party that recruits members by offering money and jobs
What is a political machine?
The idea you could choose salvation
What was a Moral free agent
Lincoln's Reconstruction plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the Union
what was the ten percent plan
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The president of the Confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis?
1828 law that significantly raised tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods
What was the tariff of abomination
Founded by Joseph Smith, the church of Jesus Crist of Latter Day Saints. Joseph Smith was believed to be a prophet and could talk directly to God.
What was Mormonism
Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction and were ridiculed by ex-Confederates as worthless traitors
what were scalawags?
An informal network of whites and free black americans to assist escaped slaves
What was the underground?
The channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort
What was Total war?
opposed the expansion of slavery into new states
What was the Free soil movement
Protestant religious revival, brought about a number of reform movements
What was the second great awakening?
A derisive name given by ex-Confederates to northerners who, motivated by idealism or the search for personal opportunity or profit, moved to the South during Reconstruction.
what were carpetbaggers
Led a slave rebellion killing a number of whites, which led to stricter slave laws
Who was Nat Turner?
Extreme patriotism in support of the war
What is jingoism
Idea authored by Stephen Douglas that claimed slavery could only exist when popular sovereignty said so
What was the Freeport Doctrine
the belief of Americans that it was their god-given right to expand the nation from coast to coast. This fueled westward expansion
what is manifest destiny
opposite of reconstruction - the return of white supremacy and the removal of rights for black people
what is redemption
A series of violent conflicts in the Kansas territory between pro and anti-abolitionists.
What was bleeding Kansas?
The destruction of grain, barns, gristmills, and any other resource useful to the Confederates
What was the scorched earth campaign
1. California added as a free state 2. The Slave trade was abolished in D.C. 3. Popular Sovereignty in Mexican Cession 4. More strict fugitive slave law lead to personal liberty in North
What was the compromise of 1850
A philosophy by Ralph Waldo Emerson - focus on individual bettering themself to become closer to God
What was transcendentalism
A radical republican who believed in harsh punishments for the South. Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress
Who was Thadeus Stevens
Black people were property and not citizens preventing congressional regulation of slavery in the states
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?