Manifest Destiny & Expansion
This idea argued that the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Frederick Douglass condemned this Supreme Court decision that denied citizenship to African Americans.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
The Civil War officially began when Confederate forces attacked this fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This 1863 proclamation declared slaves free in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The exchange of crops, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds is called this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Abraham Lincoln questioned whether American blood was truly shed on American soil in this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This abolitionist attempted to start a slave rebellion by attacking Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
The Union’s greatest advantage in the Civil War was this factor.
What is its stronger economy/industrial capacity?
One of the most successful programs of the Freedmen’s Bureau focused on this area.
What is education?
Bartolomé de Las Casas criticized the Spanish treatment of this group.
Who are Native Americans/Indigenous peoples?
This proposal attempted to ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe increased Northern opposition to slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Confederate food shortages were largely caused by this weakness in the South.
What were poor transportation systems/railroads?
Southern laws designed to restrict freedpeople’s rights were called this.
What are Black Codes?
Jamestown eventually solved its labor problem by developing this system.
What is plantation agriculture relying on slavery?
This concept allowed settlers in territories like Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Pro-slavery writers argued that slavery was not a necessary evil but this.
What is a positive good?
After this battle in 1861, the North realized the war would be long and difficult.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Anne Hutchinson challenged authority in this Puritan colony.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise and opened the territories to popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Harriet Tubman and this man were famous conductors on the Underground Railroad.
Who is William Still?
Jefferson Davis struggled to exercise strong national authority because of this Southern belief.
What is states’ rights?
This group in the South worked to violently undermine Reconstruction governments.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
British trade regulations that controlled colonial commerce were called these.
What are the Navigation Acts?