Tis My Destiny
The idea the America should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
The practice of moving from the rural country-side to the city life.
Urbanization
Written to please southern states. The capturing of free slaves and bounty hunting of escaped slaves. Created northern abolitionist.
Fugitive Slave Act
This region supported high tariffs on imports, cities industrial economy, education reform, and canals.
Northern/ Northeastern U.S.
The first battle that initiated/ started the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth were all ex-slaves that join a movement to end slavery
Abolition/ Abolitionist
(1846-1848) War where the U.S. gained full control on New Mexico, Utah, and California.
Mexican-American War/ U.S. War with Mexico
Eli Whitney unintentionally increased the need for slave labor as it separated the cotton fibers from the seeds and stickers faster.
Cotton Gin
Made to balance slave and free states; set the border for them at the 36*30 Parallel.
Missouri Compromise 1820
This region is known for its plantations, cash crops: cotton and tobacco and its reliance on slave labor.
The South/ Southern Economy
The turning point of the Civil War where Lincoln delivered a speech dedicating the battlefield as a national cemetery.
Gettysburg
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott all fought for Women to vote. This is known as...
Womens Sufferage
Event in 1849 that attracted many settlers and immigrants to California after the Mexican-American War.
Gold Rush
San Francisco 49ers
Invented by Samuel Morse, this invention sent news and military communications faster during the Mexican-American and Civil War.
Telegraph
The practice of allowing the people of a state to vote on whether or not they slavery should be legal.
Popular Sovereignty
They worked in American factories after the famine blight killed their potato crops and pushed them out of Ireland.
Irish
Bloodiest one-day battle, gave Lincoln the Confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam
Statement where Lincoln abolished the practice slavery in the states part of the Confederacy/ Rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
Expanded the power of the President (Jefferson) by doubling the size of the U.S. which gained control of the Mississippi River.
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
Powered by Robert Fulton's Steam Engine this invention aided westward expansion by connecting eastern New York to the Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes.
Canals
Banned slave trade in Washington D.C., California = free state, New Mexico and Utah decide using Popular Sovereignty, Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
They worked in the California gold mines and the transcontinental railroad.
Chinese
During this battle the Union broke the Confederates (S) in two as they took control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
During the Civil War this 1863 speech by President Lincoln emphasized the ideas of equality and freedom while dedicating a national cemetery to the fallen soldiers
The Gettysburg Address
Commissioned by president Lincoln in 1863, this transportation network aided westward settlement (trade and travel) by connecting Nebraska to California.
Transcontinental Railroad
War that forced the United States to become economically independent and began American Industrial Revolution.
War of 1812
Mini Civil War brought on by the practice of Popular Sovereignty.
Bleeding Kansas
They mainly settled on farms they purchased and were better received by Americans as they introduced the ideas of kindergarten.
Germans
To end the war, Lincoln ordered a general to set fire to the state of Georgia from the city of Atlanta to Savannah.
Sherman's March to the Sea
In 1857, the Supreme Court stated that a slave could not sue in court as they were property and property can't sue.
Dred Scott v. Stanford
From 1804 - 1806, these two men accompanied by a Native American woman (Sacagawea) set out map out and explore the Area of the Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Profit Motive, Competition, Inventors/ Private Property Rights, Consumer Choice, Entrepreneurship.
Free Enterprise System
Disregarded the 36*30 parallel set by the Missouri Compromise as allowed settlers to vote on the issue of slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Supreme Court case that stated the Cherokee nation was a sovereign/ independent nation in the state of Georgia.
*Disregarded by Andrew Jackson
Worcester v. Georgia
This battle marked the end of the Civil War in a private home in Virgina.
Appomattox Court House
Event where South Carolina first threatened to secede after it opposed the federal tariffs on imports.
Nullification Crisis