Sectional Tensions
Introduced by Lewis Cass but pushed further by Stephen Douglas, this PLAN or CONCEPT involved allowing states to decide for themselves whether they would permit slavery within their borders.
Popular Sovereignty
After this BATTLE in Pennsylvania, President Lincoln gave an address that not only dedicated a national cemetery to those who died in the battle, but he also outlined the goals of the remaining war, to preserve the union and end slavery
The Battle of Gettysburg
Although the Freedmen's Bureau helped educate over hundreds of thousands of black Americans, many black Americans were still trapped in cyclical, perpetual debt due to this economic system that involved laborers to work in shared agricultural areas.
Sharecropping
This political party, whose primary platform goal was to prevent the expansion of slavery, was formed in the 1850s after the Whigs dissolved
Republican Party
This was the concept that it was God's Will for the United States to expand westward
Manifest Destiny
Bleeding Kansas (1855-1859) was largely caused by THIS law, which opened the territory for popular sovereignty regarding the issue of slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
This man delivered the speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" effectively portraying the hypocrisy and incongruity of American values and the Declaration of Independence
Frederick Douglass
The Federal Reconstruction Act of 1867, designed by Radical Republicans, placed the South under marshal law by dividing the South in this many military districts
These amendments are considered the Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
In declaring that slaves were not citizens, the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision also deemed that which previous act by Congress was unconstitutional?
The Missouri Compromise
After American soldiers under Gen. Taylor provoked the Mexicans to fire upon them, sparking the Mexican American War, Abraham Lincoln, a young Whig politician issued THIS, which demanded that the US government show the exact location where the Mexicans attacked.
Spot Resolution
During the war, Congress passed this ACT in 1862, providing that with a small filing fee, American families could obtain up to 160 acres of land to settle out west.
The Homestead Act (1862)
He was the first black American elected to federal Congress
Hiram Revels
A member of the House of Representatives, he was largely regarded as the leader of the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the constitutionality for segregation as long as that segregation was "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
This PRESIDENT's political platform largely rested upon the spoils of manifest destiny. He oversaw the Mexican-American War, the agreement for the Mexican Cession, the admittance of California to the union, and the settlement of the Oregon territory with Great Britain.
James K. Polk
Identify 2 ADVANTAGES that the BOTH the Union AND the Confederacy had during the war
Union:
- industry, transportation, wealth, population, navy
South:
- better generals, defensive war, knew the terrain
These were the THREE WAYS that southerners prevented black Americans from voting in the South after 1877
In his last compromising hurrah, Henry Clay developed the Compromise of 1850, a compromise that involved which 3 PRIMARY agreements (hint: 1 for north, 2 for south)
1) California admitted as free state
2) Strict Fugitive Slave Act
3) Mexican Cession territories open to popular sovereignty
List TWO other SUCCESSFULLY passed acts/legislation by Congress that OUTLAWED slavery in current or future United States territory
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
in 1859, John Brown led a failed slave uprising at Harper's Ferry in Virginia (modern day West Virginia), an event that inflamed southern suspicions of the north. However, John Brown also led a massacre of slave-owners in 1856 at THIS Kansas location
Pottawattamie Creek
Lincoln ingeniously made the goal of the war to preserve the union, NOT destroy slavery. If he were to make it about destroying slavery, he may have lost the vital border states, the slave states that remained loyal to the union. Name 3/4 of them. (West Virginia seceded from Virginia as a free state and therefore does not count)
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware
John C. Fremont
Although only 40% of American voters chose him, Abraham Lincoln defeated the disunited Democratic Party in the election of 1860, defeating popular sovereignty advocate Stephen Douglas AND this pro-slavery Democrat from Kentucky
John C. Breckenridge
This FAILED COMPROMISE was hatched in 1860, just before the majority of the southern states eventually joined the Confederacy. It called for all land in the north (above the 36th parallel) to be free and all land in the south to be slave states -- it also protected the Fugitive Slave Act and existing slavery. Lincoln ultimately rejected the compromise.
Crittenden Compromise