Westward Expansion
Term coined by John O'Sullivan that defined this period of Westward Expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Who is John Brown?
Issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, this declared that all persons held as slaves in the Confederate states would be considered free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What are black codes?
Movement to end slavery in the United States.
What is the abolitionist movement?
Victory in this war added significant territory to the United States, including California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Political doctrine stating that the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Union General who became president after the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
City where the Draft Riots of 1863 took place.
What is New York City?
Annexation of this state contributed to the coming of the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
Bloody conflict in 1854 involving pro slavery "border ruffians" and antislavery settlers.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
President who created the 10% Plan, also known as the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
National third-party (political party) that formed in order to stop the extension of slavery into the western territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
Congressman who questioned the start of the Mexican-American War when he delivered the "Spot Resolutions"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for their freedom in a Supreme Court case in 1857.
Who is Dred Scott?
During the Civil War, President Lincoln controversially suspended this to maintain order and suppress potential rebellion in the Union, particularly in the border states.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
Organization that helped former slaves and poor whites find jobs and housing, and provided food and clothing during the Reconstruction period.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Agricultural system where a portion of the harvest is traded in return for the right to work on someone else's land; this system kept poor farmers in a state of near slavery and debt.
What is sharecropping?
Proposal aimed to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American War. While it never became law, it ignited intense debate over slavery's expansion and heightened sectional tensions.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Describe THREE parts of the Compromise of 1850.
1. California is entered as a free state.
2. The slave trade is abolished in Washington, DC.
3. The remaining territories gained from the Mexican American War would incorporate popular sovereignty.
4. A stricter fugitive slave law was passed.
A faction of the Democratic Party in the Union who opposed the Civil War and wanted to make immediate peace with the Confederacy.
Who are Copperheads?
People from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
Who are carpetbaggers?
The election of this president resulted from the Compromise of 1877, where the disputed presidential election was resolved by making a deal to remove Union troops from the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?