Expansion
Antebellum US
Causes
& Conflict
Reconstruction
100
A widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
Manifest Destiny
100
The main industry in the Southern states
Plantation farming by slave labor
100
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
Popular sovereignty
100
The name of the new country created when 11 Southern states left the Union
Confederate States of America
100
Secret Society formed in the south after Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
200
The verb that means to add (an area or region) to a country, state, etc. : to take control of (a territory or place)
annex
200
The main industry in the Northern states
Manufacturing by paid workers
200
the implementation of popular sovereignty led to violent conflict in this newly created state
Kansas (Bleeding Kansas, 1855-1859)
200
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at...
Fort Sumter
200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
300
This treaty effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
300
The policy of promoting or protecting the interests of people born in a country over those of immigrants
nativism
300
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States (1857)
Dred Scott v. Sanford
300
Union army tactic of destroying crops and civilian areas as they marched through the south. (Specifically linked to one general)
Sherman's March to the Sea
300
Party members who believed that all Black people should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Radical Republicans
400
A 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854
Gadsden Purchase
400
Origin countries of most newly arrived immigrants
Germany and Ireland
400
The event that gave the final push for Southern states to seceded
Election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860
400
First officially recognized Black regiment
Massachusetts 54th
400
Through this system, planters broke up their estates into small units and established on each unit a black or poor white family as tenants.
Sharecropping
500
A specific request made by Congressman Abraham Lincoln in 1847, demanding that President James K. Polk identify the exact location where American blood was shed on American soil, which justified the declaration of war against Mexico.
The Spot Resolution
500
A nativist political party and movement in the United States who believed immigrants were corrupting Northern cities
The Know-Nothing Party
500
A short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, that later merged into the Republican Party
Free-Soilers
500
Action that changed the purpose of the war to a more moral basis
Emancipation Proclamation
500
An informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 election
Compromise of 1877