Pre-Civil War Conflict
What is the term for the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand westward?
President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Amendment that abolished slavery.
13th Amendment.
What President oversaw the Mexican American War?
James K. Polk
John Brown
Book written in 1852 that intensified antislavery movements in the North.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Lincoln issued this in 1863, shifting the war's purpose to end slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
What is the amendment that provided equal protection and citizenship?
14th Amendment.
Which compromise admitted California as a free state and introduced a stronger Fugitive Slave Law?
Compromise of 1850
This Union General's "March to the Sea" destroyed the Confederacy's resources.
William Tecumseh Sherman
This act allowed settlers in these territories to vote on slavery, leading to violence.
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Single, bloodiest day in American History.
Battle of Antietam
Federal agency that helped former slaves with things like education, food, and housing.
Fredman's Buraeu
Political Party formed in the 1850's with the goal of stopping expansion of slavery
Republicans
Former enslaved person who became a leading abolitionist speaker and writer.
Frederick Douglass
1857 Supreme Court case ruled enslaved people were property and congress did not have the power to ban slavery in certain territories.
Dred Scott v. Standford
Turning-point battle in 1863, stopped Lee's invasion of the North.
Battle of Gettysburg.
Laws in Southern states that attempted to restrict the rights of recently freed African Americans.
Black Codes
Theory that slavery was beneficial and justified.
Positive Good Theory
President of the Confederate States
Jefferson Davis
The Wilmot Proviso tried to ban slavery in territory gained from this war.
Mexican American War
Strategy aimed to block Southern ports and to control the Mississippi River.
Anaconda Plan
Southern white Republicans who supported reconstruction were known as...
Scalawags
1846-1848 political movement opposed expansion of slavery, helped form the Republican Party.
Free-Soil movement
Influential Senator from Illinois who proposed popular sovereignty and debated Lincoln in 1858.
Stephen A. Douglass