Manifest Destiny
What is Manifest Destiny?
The popular belief that the United States had a divine mission to extend its power and civilization across the breadth of North America
Free- Soil Movement
Sought to keep the West a land of opportunity for Whites only, no slavery out west.
Why did the Southern states initially leave the Union?
Lincoln was elected
Emancipation Proclamation
Freed all slaves in Southern States
Changed the meaning of the war as a fight to end slavery, not just to repair the union
Homestead Act
Provided 160 acres of public land to settlers for a small fee, encouraged Westward expansion
Remember the ___________
Alamo!
Popular Sovereignty
People in a settled territory vote on the issue of slavery
The first conflict was...
Fort Sumter
10% Plan
Lincoln's 10% plan, 10% of a state had to take an oath to be readmitted to the Union
Wade- Davis Bill
required 50% of voters in a state to take an oath to rejoin the union
Name two Territories gained from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico
Name one feature of the Compromise of 1850
Divide Utah and New Mexico, use popular sovereignty
Assume Texas Debt
Ban slave trade in the District of Columbia
Adopt a new Fugitive Slave Law
Bloodiest battle of the civil war
Gettysburg
Freedmen's Bureau
Acted as a Welfare agency, providing food, shelter, and medical aid
BUILT ALOT OF SCHOOLS
Cotton Diplomacy
Confederate strategy of using cotton exports to persuade European nations to support them
Wilmot Proviso
Proposal to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico... Bonus if you mention growing sectionalism
Bleeding Kansas
Northerns and Southerners flooded Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. Conflict ensued and violence erupted in the territory between factions.
Name one advantage for the North and South going into the Civil War
North: Larger population, Greater industry, More Railroads, Navy, etc
South: Fighting defensive war, Better generals, Better morale
What was the 13th and 14th Amendment?
13th- Abolished slavery
14th- Naturalized citizens, protected rights of us citizens
54th Massachusetts Regiment
One of the first African American regiments in the Civil War
Fort Wagner
The growing expansion westward led to what...
Increasing tensions between North and South over the issue of slavery
Dredd Scott v Sandford
Declared slaves were property
Name all three steps of the Anaconda Plan
1.) Blockade the Southern Coasts
2.) Take control of the Mississippi and split the South in half
3.) March on Richmond
Black Codes
Restricted the rights and movements of African Americans
Could nor rent land or borrow money for land
Could not testify against whites
Sign work agreements
Compromise of 1877
Election resolved, ending reconstruction in exchange for Republican president in the United States