The US and the World
What is Manifest Destiny
This is the Northern social group who formed on the basis of its free-labor manufacturing economy
Who are immigrants (particularly Irish or German)
Part of the Compromise of 1850, the highly controversial law that required free states to assist in the return of escaped enslaved people, leading to an increased amount of abolitionist activity
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
This particular event *most* directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election or 1860 or the election of Abraham Lincoln
Those who believe that blacks should be granted rights and that Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law
What is the Homestead Act
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South which increased hatred
Who is John Brown
The idea that residents of the state should get to vote on the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
The strategies that the North used to effectively stifle the Southern resources and destroyed lots of infrastructure
What are the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
What are to abolish slavery, guarantee citizenship, and grant voting rights to all men
What is racial/cultural superiority or Nativism
This led to increased anger in the South for having to purchase goods made in the North instead of purchasing goods made by Europe
Tariffs
The Supreme Court Case/decision that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is the Dred Scott Case or Dred Scott v. Sanford
The two Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What are Gettysburg and Vicksburg
The causation of the sharecropping system in the South (causes and effects)
What is the need for workers and the need for the land resulting in economic dependency
Whigs in the Senate rejected this treaty, which effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in CA, NM, and UT
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North (not South) as well as increased the North's chances in the Civil War
What are railroads
The most controversial aspect of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
What is the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
The bloodiest single day in American history, where the Union victory led to Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Battle of Antietam?
An agency established by Congress to provide food, housing, education, and job training for newly freed slaved
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
The reasoning behind Texas Annexation (list AT LEAST 3)
What was to acquire/expand US land, to help relieve Texas of it's $10 million of debt (US would assume it), to stop the influence of Britain on the territory, the majority of the population was already American, Mexico refused to recognize Texas' independence so the US helped with that
What are Bloody/Bleeding Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, and the formation of the Republican Party
The threefold purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation
What are discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the overall focus of the war
Three pieces of evidence that supports the claim that Reconstruction was a time of conflict over the new definitions of citizenships
What are the Slaughterhouse cases, the Black Codes, the KKK, the Colfax massacre, the White League, the split in the Women's Rights movement, Hiram Revels