Manifest Destiny & Sectionalism
The 1840s slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!" referred to the boundary dispute with Great Britain over this territory.
What is the Oregon Territory?
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe 'helped start the Great War' by humanizing the horrors of slavery for Northern readers.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this federal installation in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
This agency was established in 1865 to provide food, clothing, and education to formerly enslaved people and poor whites.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This Amendment abolished slavery throughout the entire United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and ceded half of Mexico's territory to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This Supreme Court case in 1857 ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Scott v. Sandford (The Dred Scott Decision)?
This 1862 executive order declared that all slaves in 'rebellious' states were free, changing the purpose of the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These laws, passed by Southern states immediately after the war, sought to restrict the rights of free blacks and keep them in a labor-dependent state.
What are the Black Codes?
This Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. and guaranteed 'equal protection under the laws.'
What is the 14th Amendment?
This 1854 Act repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing "popular sovereignty" to decide the status of slavery in two new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This radical abolitionist led a failed raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
This 1863 battle in Pennsylvania was the 'high-water mark' of the Confederacy and the turning point of the war in the East.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This 1877 political deal effectively ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This Amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied based on 'race, color, or previous condition of servitude.'
What is the 15th Amendment?
This "Old Fuss and Feathers" general proposed the Anaconda Plan to defeat the Confederacy.
Who is Winfield Scott?
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves, sparking outrage in the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Union General William T. Sherman utilized this strategy of destroying both military and civilian resources to break the Southern will to fight.
What is Total War (or the March to the Sea)?
This term was used by Southerners to describe Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction for economic or political gain.
What are Carpetbaggers?
This labor system replaced slavery for many freedmen keeping them in a cycle of debt and poverty.
What is Sharecropping?
This 1853 land purchase from Mexico was intended to provide a southern route for the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This 1860 political party platform opposed the extension of slavery but promised not to interfere with it where it already existed.
Who are the Republicans?
This 1862 law encouraged Western migration by providing 160 acres of public land to settlers who "improved" it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This President was impeached by the House of Representatives for violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This 1866 Act was the first federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?