Westward Expansion
Term for the belief in US territorial expansion
Manifest Destiny, Young America]
The dispute over slavery in this midwestern territory throughout the 1850s kept the controversy boiling
Kansas
The worst anti-draft violence occurred among poor whites here
New York City
This southern commander was defeated both at Antietam and Gettysburg by the North
Robert. E. Lee
Key port for Western commerce, US acquired it in 1803
New Orleans
He encouraged US migration to Mexican Texas
Stephen F. Austin
He created the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and unleashed tremendous chaos as a result
Stephen Douglas
Chief method of war finance for the North
Borrowing Money
The violence began with the Southern attack on this US fortification
Ft. Sumter
Political party organized around Clay, Webster, Calhoun
Whigs or National Republicans
It was the chief migration route from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast
Oregon Trail
The compromise of 1850 weakened this political party, the Kansas-Nebraska Act killed it
The whig party
Nickname for Democrats opposed to the war
Copperheads
This US commander made his reputation in 1862 with a victory at the Battle of Shiloh
U.S. Grant
Philosophical and literary movement that celebrated intuition and instinct as forms of knowing
transcendentalism
These people, from New England mostly, made the first contact between Americans and Spanish California
Whalers or Merchants
Party committed to nativism—rose quickly, faded almost as fast
American Party
DD named for the senator who proposed it, it gave land and money to states to create colleges and universities
His victory at Atlanta in 1864 secured Lincoln’s re-election
W.T Sherman
Artistic style that glorified nature
Hudson River School
This US president first embraced Texas Annexation, but his hope for an annexation treaty (re-election) failed in 1844.
John Tyler
The Supreme court failed badly to end the sectional debate with this ruling
Dred Scot
This diplomatic incident was the most serious crisis between the US and Britain during the Civil War
The Trent Affair
Grant’s victory here in the spring of 1865 forced Lee out of Richmond and caused his surrender
Petersburg
As President in the 1810s, he supported the National Bank, but vetoed money for transportation projects
James Madison