A widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
Manifest Destiny
The main industry in the Northern and Southern States
Manufacturing in the Northern States
Plantation farming in the Southen States
The name of the new country created when 11 Southern states left the Union
The Confederate States of America
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
A verb that means to add (an area or region) to a country, state, etc. to take control of (a territory or place)
Annex
What Is the idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
Lincoln and most Union supporters began the Civil War to preserve the Union, but Lincoln's decision to issue the ____________________ ___________ reframed the purpose of the war and helped prevent the Confederacy from gaining full support from Europe.
Emancipation Proclamation
Those who believed that all Black people should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Radical Republicans
This treaty effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The implementation of popular sovereignty led to violent conflict in this newly created state
Kansas (Bleeding Kansas, 1855-1859)
One advantage for the North and the South in Civil War
South: Leaders with more experience, Most battles were on their territory
North: Large and powerful navy, Controlled banks, manufacturing, and railroads
Two pieces of evidence support the claim that although Reconstruction led to some progress for formerly enslaved people, ultimately, it was a failure.
Black Codes, Sharecropping, Birth of the KKK
Southern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
A nativist political party and movement in the United States who believed immigrants were corrupting Northern cities
The Know-Nothing Party
The event that gave the final push for Southern states to secede
Election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860
Through this system, planters broke up their estates into small units and established on each unit a black or poor white family as tenants.
Sharecropper
Other than Manifest Destiny, what was the cause of Westward expansion?
Desire for access to natural and mineral resources.
Other than the Fugitive Slave Act, what was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision regarding California statehood?
The Compromise of 1850?
A short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, that later merged into the Republican Party
Free-Soil Movement
After this act repealed Reconstruction "ended"
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867