Mexican-American War
What does Manifest Destiny mean?
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand west to the Pacific Ocean.
What issue divided the North and South most?
Slavery.
Who was President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis.
What was the goal of Reconstruction?
Rebuild the South and integrate freed slaves.
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln.
What event caused the Mexican-American War?
Border dispute after U.S. annexed Texas.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
California free state; stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
What was the Union’s main goal at the start of the war?
Preserve the Union.
What were Black Codes?
Laws limiting African American rights.
What did the Gettysburg Address emphasize?
Equality and preserving the Union.
What land did the U.S. gain from Mexico?
Mexican Cession (California, Southwest).
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow?
Popular sovereignty on slavery.
What was the bloodiest Civil War battle?
Battle of Gettysburg.
What amendment ended slavery?
The 13th Amendment.
What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do?
Helped former slaves with education, food, jobs.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Proposed ban on slavery in land from Mexico.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
Slaves were property, not citizens.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed slaves in Confederate areas.
What ended Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877.
What did Lincoln argue in his Second Inaugural Address?
Unity and healing after the war.
What was “54°40’ or Fight”?
Dispute with Britain over Oregon Territory.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
Violence over slavery in Kansas.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
Union strategy to blockade and divide South.
What were the 14th & 15th Amendments?
14th = citizenship; 15th = voting rights.
What book fueled anti-slavery feelings in the North?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.