Expansion
Term coined by John O'Sullivan illustrating the westward expansion of this period.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Who is John Brown?
This declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states were considered free on January 1, 1863
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What are black codes?
Movement to end slavery in the United States.
What is the abolitionist movement?
President in office during the Mexican-American War.
Who is President K. Polk?
Political doctrine stating that the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Name of the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
President who made the 10% Plan (also known as the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction)
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
City where the Draft Riots of 1863 took place.
What is New York City?
Annexation of this state contributed to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
Bloody conflict in 1854 involving pro slavery "border ruffians" and antislavery settlers.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
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?
Congressman who gave the famous "Spot Resolutions" demanding to know exactly where the war broke out between US and Mexican forces.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Who is Henry Clay?
President Lincoln suspended this to eliminate dissent during the Civil War.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
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?
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?
failed proposal that would have prohibited slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
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.
Faction of the Democratic Party that wanted to make immediate peace with the Confederates?
Who were the Copperheads?
People from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
Who are carpetbaggers?
Full name of the formerly enslaved man and abolitionist who gained notoriety in 1849 for his ingenious escape from slavery (he mailed himself from Virginia to Pennsylvania with the help of other abolitionists)
Who is Henry "Box" Brown?