Civil War
What is the name of Lincoln's famous speech that requested continued support for the war effort?
Gettysburg Address
What is the (derogatory) term for white northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers
What is the term for the belief that white men were meant to conquer this content and all of its inhabitants?
Manifest Destiny
True or False: Blacks never held political office during Reconstruction.
FALSE!
What is the term for African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South after the Civil War, AND which state did many of them settle in?
Exodusters; Kansas
greater population; better industrial development
What is the term for the policies that were passed in a number of Southern states after the Civil War that were meant to place limits of the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people?
Black Codes
More than any other event in this unit, which event led to new debates about the expansion of slavery?
Mexican-American War
What was the goal of the American Colonization Society?
to return freed slaves to Africa
Give one event that supports the idea that the Civil War was "rich man's war but a poor man's fight."
draft riots in NYC; wealthy landowners could pay for a substitute
What did the Fifteenth Amendment establish?
that voting rights cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
Name the political party that was formed in response to the increasing number of German and Irish immigrants coming to the US in the late 1800s.
American/Know-Nothing Party
Which law (pertaining to slavery) was part of the Compromise of 1850?
Fugitive Slave Law
What are two triggering events for South Carolina's secession from the Union? (could occur up to 10 years before their secession)
1860 election, Bleeding Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown & Harpers' Ferry
Public school system
What was the name of the movement that opposed the expansion of slavery in newly acquired territories after the Mexican War?
free -soil movement
What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott case?
That slaves did not qualify as US citizens, and Dred Scott could not be granted his freedom
Give three SEPARATE causes for the Civil War.
clash of economic interests between urban and rural areas; agitation by politicians in the North and South; differences over the morality and future of slavery; disagreements over states' rights vs. federal power
Which three constitutional amendments were passed during Reconstruction, AND what did they do?
13th (ended slavery), 14th (provided citizenship and equal protection under the law), 15th (granted voting rights to former slaves)
Which proposal would have prohibited slavery in the lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War?
Wilmot Proviso
To strengthen the moral cause of the Union--this was now a war about slavery