Expansion
This was the idea that Americans had a divine right to expand westward to spread its republican government and "way of life"
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was a nickname given to a territory where violence erupted over the issue of slavery in the 1850s
He was the first and only president of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This was a terrorist group that intimidated and oppressed African Americans in the South through violence
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This president supported Manifest Destiny sentiments that spread across America by annexing Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican Cession
The radical abolitionist who led a failed raid at Harpers Ferry
Who is John Brown?
This was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declaring all slaves in Confederate states free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
This war, largely sparked by Americans' expansionist goals, ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Supreme Court decision declared that African Americans were not citizens and did not have the right to sue
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This plan, proposed by Lincoln's general, aimed to let the South exhaust its materials until they were forced to surrender to minimize the amount of resources and lives lost
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This organization was created following the end of the Civil War to help newly freed slaves with basic needs
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This treaty with Spain allowed us to gain Florida
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
This novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and intensified Northern opposition to slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This general's "March to the Sea" largely shifted the tide in favor of the Union through his devastation of the South
These were a set of laws passed in the South to restrict the rights of African Americans
What are the Black Codes?
This proposal aimed to ban slavery in any territory gained from Mexico in through Mexican-American War
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This act, passed in 1854, implemented popular sovereignty in territories, directly contradicting the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This female nurse and activist supported reform movements in the Union, fighting for mental illness institutions
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This act, which required the approval of the Senate to fire cabinet members, was passed by Congress to ensure that Andrew Johnson would keep Lincoln's cabinet members
What is the Tenure of Office Act?