Westward Expansion & Immigration
What was Manifest Destiny?
Describe the economic differences between the North and the South (two descriptions each).
North: Manufacturing, Free Labor
South: Agriculture, Slavery
Northerners did NOT enforce it and they passed personal liberty laws to fight back; South wanted it enforced
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
Term used to describe wartime when all national resources are being used for the war effort
What was Total War?
Freed all the slaves in the United States
Battle during the Texas Revolution where all men died in battle, motivated Americans to continue their fight
What was the Battle of the Alamo?
This book was written to expose the conditions of slavery and also motivated the Abolition Movement
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Deal that determined how to deal with slavery in the land aquired during the Mexican War
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Freed the slaves in the rebelling Southern States ONLY
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This divided the South into 5 military districts, goals was to enforce laws
What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
We gain the American Southwest in this agreement
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This group opposed expansion of slavery because it took white jobs away
Overturned the Missouri Compomrise; revealed the problems of Popular Sovereignty in the West
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Speech given at a cemetary by Lincoln, battle had huge losses
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This group fought back by enacting federal laws that overrule Southern state laws
Congressional bill to prohibit slavery from any land gained from the war; passed by House of Reps, but not Senate
Termed coined by John C. Calhoun, attempted to justify slavery in the South
"Positive Good" argument
This group/organization forms in 1856, made up of the Whigs, Free Soil and Abolitionist groups
What is Republican Party?
Place of the Confederacy's surrender
What is the Appomattox Court House?
Northerners who moved to the South to benefit financially from Reconstruction
Who were the Carpetbaggers?
New political party that was anti-immigrant
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
A zealous abolitionist, he eventually resorted to violence at Harper's Ferry
Who was John Brown?
What was the Crittenden Compromise?
Revolt - immigrants who oppose the war and dislike how rich can avoid fighting and exploirt poor in the process
What were the NYC Draft Riots in 1863?
Also known as "the Great Betrayal", Rutherford B. Hayes is elected.