Manifest Destiny
South Carolina secedes following the election of what American president in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Hamilton
This speech freed the slaves in the rebellious states
Emancipation Proclamation
When African American men get the right to vote following the Civil War, this group of Americans ALSO thought they would get the right to vote
Women
This event was created by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and sent the Cherokee to western reservation lands.
The Trail of Tears
This Supreme Court case said that slaves were not allowed to sue because they - and all black Americans - were not citizens.
Scott v. Sanford, the Dred Scott case
The Father of the Democratic-Republicans AKA the Anti-Federalists
Thomas Jefferson
These laws were created during and following Reconstruction by southern legislatures in order to keep blacks and whites separate and make life harder for blacks.
Black Codes
This political party was formed on the hatred on immigrants and growing nativism
Know Nothing Party
Kansas Nebraska Act
In order to keep the balance of free and slave states, this law creates two new states.
Missouri Compromise
This Supreme Court Case grants the power of Judicial Review to Supreme Court
This is a famous general's strategy of burning down all of the land, buildings, and property between Atlanta and the Atlantic Ocean
Sherman's March to the Sea
This term refers to a new type of slavery in which poor, mostly black farmers become indebted to the land owner whose land they were farming and become unable to leave.
Sharecropping
This was the slogan for what Americans WANTED to be the border between America and Canada
54'40 OR FIGHT!
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book tells the story of what it is truly like to be a slave. When Americans read it, some begin to vehemently oppose slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The American System
This federal government organization offered education, food, money, and clothing to newly freed slaves
Freedman's Bureau
This short time period is characterized by a good economy, general happiness about the ending of the War of 1812, and no foreign policy issues
The Era of Good Feelings
This is the agreement in which America purchased the land that is today the American Southwest from Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
Southern states were angry about a new tariff law and threatened that they wanted to be able to get rid of any law they wanted. This is also the first discussion of secession.
Nullification Crisis
Monroe Doctrine
What do the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do?
13th - frees slaves, 14th - citizenship rights for all Americans, 15th - voting rights for black men
Created by General Winfield Scott, this was the Union strategy of cutting off all Confederate ports, seizing the Mississippi River, and making it impossible for the south to resupply its military
The Anaconda Plan