Territory
This president ran (and won) on the slogan "54-40 or Fight" convincing Americans that he was willing to fight Great Britain for Oregon to fulfill America's "manifest destiny."
Who is Polk?
This novel penned by Harriet Beecher Stowe created a movement, which forced Americans to choose a side and ultimately was partially responsible for the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Name the following Civil War battles: the battle that marked the start of the war, an early key victory for the Confederacy, a turning point marking the end of the Confederate invasion of the North, and the bloodiest single day battle which led President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What are Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Gettysburg, and Antietam?
This amendment prohibited the government from denying male citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or past servitude; effectively giving black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Northerners were hesitant to admit this territory to the union in 1845 because they were worried it would give more power to supporters of slavery.
What is Texas?
The Compromise of 1850 admitted this state to the Union as a free state, angering Southerners.
What is California?
Name the two territories that the U.S. purchased in 1803 and 1853.
What are the Louisiana Territory and the Gadsden Purchase?
During this period, the South concluded that their economic system was superior to the North's because they were not hit as hard during this economic downturn.
What is the Panic of 1857?
This was issued by President Lincoln to encourage slaves to rebel and join the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This organization was created by the federal government in 1865 to provide food, housing, medical aid, schools and legal assistance to former slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
At the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln argued that it was being fought to preserve this, but by the end of the war he argued that it was being fought to preserve democracy and the ability of African Americans to have more rights.
What is the Union?
This man argued that black people could not be citizens in his 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford decision.
Who is Chief Justice Roger B. Taney?
The U.S. acquired this territory from Spain in 1819 at essentially no cost (other than some financial claims by Spaniards against U.S. citizens).
What is Florida?
This man attempted to raid the arsenal at Harper's Ferry in order to start an armed slave insurrection.
Who is John Brown?
This region had the advantage in military leadership at the beginning of the war.
What is the South?
This hate group formed in the South after the Civil War to prevent the reconstruction policies from being successful. Congress passed the Third Force Act in 1871 which authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress this group.
What is the KKK?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act left the issue of slavery in the territories up to a popular vote; evincing this constitutional principle.
What is popular sovereignty?
This amendment defined a citizen as any person born or naturalized in the U.S., effectively granting citizenship to former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Territorial expansion by the U.S. during the 1800's made this the topic of hot debate.
What is slavery?
This political party was clearly in decline during this period, as evidenced by their performance in the presidential elections of 1848, 1852, and 1856.
What is the Whig Party?
Even today Americans will inaccurately cite this as the true cause of the Civil War, rather than slavery; demonstrating that Southern propaganda was very effective.
What are states rights?
This president refused to enforce laws protecting African Americans, such as the first Civil Rights Acts, because he did not support equal rights for African Americans. This refusal to enforce laws (the job of the president) caused him to come within one vote of being impeached by the Senate and removed from office.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Northerners hated the Compromise of 1850, because of this which made them participants in the institution of slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
These laws were passed in the South after the Civil War to limit the rights of African Americans.
What are black codes?
The Mexican Cession (land ceded by Mexico at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848) eventually becomes these four states.
What are California, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona?
Name the seven states that seceded from the Union after Lincoln's election to the presidency.
What are South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas?
Identify the number of lives lost in this conflict, more than the losses suffered by the U.S. in wars spanning from the Spanish-American War to the Vietnam War.
What is 620,000?
This resulted in Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president after the election of 1876 and ended the occupation of the South by the federal government; effectively ending the government's protection of African Americans and reconstruction policies.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This was the labor system created in the South after slavery, that in many cases closely resembled slavery.
What is sharecropping?
This was attached to an appropriations bill during the Mexican-American War and stated that slavery would be banned on all territory gained from the war; it passed the House, but not the Senate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?