Manifest Destiny
Lands from California to New Mexico, American gained in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
What is the Mexican Cession?
These two groups made up the largest waves of immigrants in the mid-1800s.
This 1820 agreement attempted to maintain balance through a geographic boundary.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Who started an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
A state leaving their country (e.g. United States).
What is secession?
This was the key problem the U.S. faced immediately after gaining new western land.
What is deciding whether slavery would be allowed?
This push factor forced many Irish immigrants to come to the U.S.
What is the potato famine?
This principle allowed residents of a territory to decide on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Debate over this legislative decision led to violence in the West and violence in the legislature itself.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
This battle gave the Union the opportunity to redefine the war’s purpose.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This was meant to protect farmers' access to the Mississippi River and Port of New Orleans.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This explains why many immigrants settled in Northern cities rather than the South.
What is more job opportunities in industry?
Which law was the MOST controversial aspect of the Compromise of 1850 regarding California statehood?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Founded in 1854 by antislavery Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, and Know-Nothings from the North and West.
What is the Republican Party?
States that maintained slaves but also sided with the North during the Civil War were called this.
What are border states?
This idea connects immigration, expansion, and slavery debates by explaining why different groups in the U.S. had conflicting goals and interests.
What is sectionalism?
This reaction to immigration led to discrimination and anti-immigrant movements.
What is nativism?
This conflict lasted from 1846-1848, this was caused by Mexico firing on American troops along the Rio Grande. The land gained from this conflict necessitated a compromise.
What is the Mexican - American War?
One of it's major points was that Congress had no authority to bar slavery from a territory nor interfere with southerners' rights to bring slaves into western territories.
What is the Dred Scott case?
This document changed the Civil War from a war for Union into a war also about slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Acquiring territory in Arizona and New Mexico to build a southern railroad route across the country.
What is the Gadsen Purchase?
The California Supreme Court case, People v. Hall (1854) determined that...
What is denied Chinese immigrants the right to testify against white citizens?
This underlying issue made every compromise fail, even when it delayed conflict.
What is the moral and political conflict over slavery?
The most direct catalyst/reason for the secession of South Carolina.
What is the election of Lincoln in 1860?
This overall Union strategy focused on exhausting the South’s ability to fight.
What is total war?