Westward Expansion
The belief that it was the mission of our country to spread the ideas of democracy and Christianity from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Literally means "before war", period of time before the civil war.
What is Antebellum?
The issue that most believe started the civil war; the south was in support, but the north was not in support.
What is slavery?
Another term for uprising, many blacks and whites attempted to lead others in an fight against slavery to end the institution once and for all.
What is a rebellion (see Prosser, Vesey, Turner, and Brown)?
Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
In December 1845, it became the 28th state of the United States after years of conflict with Mexico.
What is Texas?
Group of prejudice people who formed a political party during the time when the KKK grew. Anti-Catholics and anti-foreign. They were also known as the American Party.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
The belief that states had the right to rule themselves, and that the interests of the federal government were less important.
What is states' rights?
The laws that took nearly all rights away from slave; they could not testify in court against a white person, disrespect a white person, carry a weapon, etc.
What are slave codes?
The slave who fought for his freedom in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857, but lost when the justices declared slaves were not citizens and could not fight in a court of law.
Who was Dred Scott?
The war won by the United States that won us Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, most of New Mexico and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.
What is the Mexican-American War?
A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.
What is Abolitionist?
The belief by the people in a given region that their ideas and interests are better or more important that those in other regions.
What is sectionalism?
Harriet Tubman helped many blacks escape to freedom using a network of roads, houses, boats and wagons. to carry blacks north.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Lincoln accused her, the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, of starting the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The valuable resource that was discovered in California in 1849.
What is gold?
What is Republican?
This long speech caused a ruckus in Congress and led to the beating of the man who gave it.
What is the Crime Against Kansas?
After the election of Lincoln in 1860, this state led secession, and other states followed, also leaving the Union.
What is South Carolina?
Brought in California as a Free State, brought Popular Sovereignty to parts of the West.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The Presidential elections of 1848, 1852, 1856, and 1860 showed us that this was happening to our country.
What is division?
The Fort that was attacked and started the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
The Act that changed the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850, allowing all new states popular sovereignty, or the right to choose whether or not they wanted to join the Union as free-states or as slave-states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?