1840s
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The burning question that dominated the decades leading up to the Civil War
Will we let slavery expand westward?
event that officially led to southern secession
election of 1860
the 3 Reconstruction amendments and what they granted
13 - abolished slavery (if no crime)
14- citizenship for AA (and equal protection of the law for all citizens)
15 - universal male suffrage
Belief in the God-given right to spread from coast to coast
manifest destiny
Why did Jackson and Buchanan refuse to accept Texas annexation?
declared the Missouri Compromise 36 30' line illegal
Dred Scott v. Sanford
offered free/low cost land (160 acres) to increase the settlement of the Great Plains
Homestead Act
Force Acts [Enforcement Acts] were passed to suppress the activities of what group?
KKK
the one word explanation of what caused the Civil War
sectionalism
One item that made an appearance in the campaigns of the 1840s
hard cider or log cabins
Stephan Douglas
The event that made it possible to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Antietam
name of the political agreement that officially ended Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
to prevent from voting
disenfranchise
The ultimate goal of the pioneers who traveled the Oregon Trail (location)
Willamette Valley
3 of 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850
stronger fugitive slave law
California free state
ended slave trade in DC
popular sovereignty for rest of Mex. Cession
action taken by President Lincoln to silence complaints against the draft
suspension of habeas corpus
Hiram Revels
against the mixing/marriage of races
antimescegination
proposal in the U.S. Congress to ban slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War
Wilmot Proviso
Name the 3 of 4 of the political parties that contributed to the election of Abraham Lincoln
Republican, Whig, Know-Nothings, Free Soilers
last-ditch effort to compromise on the issue of slavery before the Civil War
Crittenden Amendment
event that provides the historical context for Cruickshank v. USA
Colfax Massacre
southern whites who supported Reconstruction
scalawags