The idea that it is America's God given right and duty to spread American people and ideals from sea to shining sea.
Manifest Destiny
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The state can decide to be a free or slave state
What was the 1st state to secede?
South Carolina
This is an example of a political cartoon made by who?
This is an example of a political cartoon by who?
Thomas Nast
Were Republicans pro-slavery or against slavery?
Against
The Fugitive Slave Act was included in what government decision?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Who started an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
What was the 4th state?
Alabama
How did the North enforce Reconstruction?
-Split South into Military Districts
-Federal government was the state level government
13th amendment said
Slavery is illegal (except for prisoners)
This book illustrated for the North how brutal slavery was.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What decision led to violent fighting between both sides for control of a state?
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
5th State?
Georgia
This was an anonymous racial hate group that formed during the Reconstruction era
The passage of the 14th amendment would directly reverse what decision?
Dred Scott Case
This 1846 proposed resolution would prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the South like best?
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the North like best?
Passing new fugitive slave laws
Adding California as a free state
Slave Trade banned in DC
7th State?
Texas
List 1 way (of the 3 we covered) that voting rights were restricted by the South after the Civil War
-Poll Tax
-Literacy Test
Grandfather Clause
What does the 14th amendment say?
Everyone born in the US is a citizen
What decision created the 36-30 line?
Missouri Compromise
What was 1 outcome of the Dredd Scott Decision (of 3)
1. Africans are not and cannot be citizens
2. The enslaved are considered property and cannot be taken away from someone
3. The Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional
Last State?
Tennessee
This women's rights group was AGAINST the 15th Amendment
National Women's Suffrage Association
What did Lincoln's 10% Plan include (2 things)
-10% of the Southern states population must swear loyalty to the Union
-All states must ratify the 13th Amendment