CH. 11/12
Operating in the decades before the Civil War, a clandestine system of routes and safehouses through which slaves were led to freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This treaty ended the U.S.'s war with Mexico by expanding U.S. borders to the Pacific coast, annexing more than half a million square miles of Mexican territory
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This amendment would abolish slavery in the U.S.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This amendment established birthright and naturalized citizenship for all races and ensured that the rights listed in the Bill of Rights apply to all citizens regardless of race
What is the 14th amendment?
This amendment prohibits the federal government and states from denying a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th amendment
____________ was one of the largest and most violent slave rebellions ever to take place in the United States, leading to stricter slave codes and tighter control of slaves
What is Nat Turner's rebellion?
_______________ was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Dred Scott case, decision, etc.
The use of ___________ helped the Union army to mobilize and provided easier connection among Union territory
What is trains, rail roads, etc.
The ________________ was a U.S. government agency that provided assistance to formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the years following the Civil War
What is Freedmen's Bureau
the 19th century belief that the United States was destined to expand westward across North America
What is "Manifest Destiny"
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel that popularized the abolitionist position
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
a series of five laws passed in September 1850 that attempted to resolve the issue of slavery in new territories acquired after the Mexican-American War
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Known as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, _____________________ ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
What is The Battle of Antietam
This party thought the goals of the Reconstruction had been achieved and thus turned their backs on newly freed African Americans in the South
Who are Liberal Republicans?
laws passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people.
What were the Black Codes
a weekly newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison edited from 1831 to 1865. Was a leading platform for the abolitionist movement, and was a major influence in the fight to end slavery in the United States
What is The Liberator
the political concept that the residents of a territory should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery when applying for statehood
What is popular sovereignty
What was the final battle/Confederate site of surrender in the Civil War?
What is Appomattox Court House
Which act in Congress created new state governments and provided for Black male suffrage in the South, thus beginning Radical Reconstruction in March 1867?
What is the Reconstruction Act?
The _________ contributed to an increase in settlement in the West by granting free land to individuals after they had lived on it for five years?
What is The Homestead Act?
The abolitionist strategy that sought to end slavery by persuading both slaveowners and complicit northerners that the institution was evil in a non-violent manner.
What is Moral Suasion?
The _______________ was a law that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories, repealed the Missouri Compromise, and allowed for popular sovereignty
__________________ was a political and economic strategy used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War to gain support from European nations
What is King Cotton Diplomacy
The ___________ were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy.
What were the "Redeemers"
The forced removal of the "Five Civilized Tribes" west of the Mississippi river in the mid 1800's
What is the Trail of Tears?