APUSH 1
The idea that it is America's God given right and duty to spread American people and ideals from sea to shining sea.
Manifest Destiny
What was the name of the 1st battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumner
What is popular sovereignty
the people have the right to vote in the government
The passage of the 14th amendment would directly reverse what Supreme Court decision?
Dred Scott Case
This Act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act
this act repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had outlawed slavery above the 36º30' latitude in the Louisiana territories, and reopened the national struggle over slavery in the western territories (popular sovereignty)
Which act gave territories Popular Sovereignty over the issue of slavery?
Kansas Nebraska Act
What does the 14th Amendment give
Citizenship to people born in the US and naturalized
his book painted the owners of slaves as monsters and helped the abolitionist movement in the early 1850s:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What was the decision in the Dred Scott case?
Dred Scott couldn't sue in court because he wasn't a citizen
2. The gov can't deprive people of their "property"
3. The decision allowed slavery in the territories
an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War
Wilmot proviso
What does the 15 Amendment state
Everyone has a right to vote except women
When a proslavery Congressman beat another Congressman with his cane.
Sumner-Brooks Incident
what are the states that maintained slaves but also sided with the North during the Civil War called
Border States
Which act gave 160 acres for free to anyone who would pay $10 and promise to cultivate land for minimum of 5 years
Homestead Act
What is the reconstruction era
he historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
Who started an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
John Brown
What is 13th amendment
All people are freed from slavery
What were the black codes
"legal" methods of keeping slaves in servitude
Laws passed to limit the Black community
-Can't borrow money to rent/buy
-Literacy Tests
-Poll Taxes
-Can't sue whites in court
What legislation protected the citizenship and protection of African Americans? (Hint: it was vetoed by Johnson, but overridden by Congress)
Civil Rights Act of 1866