Territorial Expansion
This 1848 treaty gave the United States possession of California and most of the Southwest.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision established that Congress could not limit the spread of slavery in territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This September 17, 1862 battle forestalled the possibility of European intervention in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
According to Frederick Douglass in April 1863, this action would allow African Americans to "claim America as his country."
What is enlisting in the Union Army?
This agreement took place after the Mexican-American War and is seen as a band aid on the problems this country faced.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
These laws passed by Southern states after Reconstruction limited Black voting through literacy tests, poll taxes, and other measures.
What are Jim Crow laws?
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law
What is the Homestead Act
This most controversial component of the Compromise of 1850 required citizens to help capture runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Issued at the beginning of 1863, this proclamation's immediate effect was to strengthen the moral cause of the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This book painted the owners of slaves as monsters and helped the abolitionist movement in the early 1850s:
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
This system, used in the postwar South, tied poor farmers—often newly freed people—to landowners through labor contracts and crop liens, producing cycles of debt.
What is sharecropping?
This Kentucky senator argued in 1850 that California had the constitutional right to decide on slavery for itself.
Who is Henry Clay?
The most direct catalyst/reason for the secession of South Carolina.
What is the election of Lincoln in 1860.
According to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the living should be dedicated to this "unfinished work."
What is the cause for which the dead gave their lives (or preserving the Union)?
According to The Gettysburg Address, the war was no longer just about this, but had become something greater.
What is preserving the union of the states?
The two types of societies that existed in the north and south prior to the Civil War.
What is Industrial, Urban North & Agrarian, Rural South
This 1877 agreement ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South and effectively allowing white Democratic control to be reestablished.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This South Carolina senator protested incorporating Mexico, declaring "Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race."
Who is John C. Calhoun?
The primary objective of this political party was the restriction of the rights of immigrants.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
This advantage the South enjoyed over the North on the eve of the Civil War.
What is experienced military leadership?
This Civil War amendment includes a clause that was specifically designed to overturn the Dred Scott decision by establishing birthright citizenship.
the 14th amendment; "Birth Right Clause"
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war
What are railroads?
This federal agency, created in 1865, provided food, medicine, schools, and legal assistance to newly freed people and impoverished Southerners during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The acquisition of these new territories created disputes over the expansion of slavery that led to congressional compromise efforts.
What is the Mexican Cession (or territories from the Mexican-American War)?
This 1846 proposed resolution would prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico and highlighted the increased sectional tension of the time
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This factor can best be used to explain the Union victory in the Civil War.
What is greater population and industrial development?
What were the three amendments of reconstruction, and who passed each?
13th- Lincoln
14th- Johnson
15th - Grant
Three major events caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Bloody Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, and the formation of the Republican Party
Passed as part of Reconstruction, this federal legislation attempted to protect the civil rights of African Americans and was a precursor to later Civil Rights Acts; Congress used it to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?