The number of states that seceded from the Union.
What is 11?
19th-century belief that the United States was divinely destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Laws that effectively limited the social and political power of blacks in the south after the Civil War
A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a portion of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
Used by southerners to restrict African-American voting rights.
Poll tax and Literacy tests
Document that declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and hence forward shall be free.“
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Greater population, greater industrial build-up, and greater resources
What are reasons why the Union (north) beat the Confederacy (south) in the Civil War?
Harriet Tubman, John Brown, William LLoyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass, to name a few
Who are the abolitionists?
Post-war Federal program that provided food, clothing, and education to African-Americans and white refugees in the South
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1800's real estate purchase cost $15 million!
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The number of Africans who were kidnapped and sold as enslaved people in the Americas?
What is 12.5 million
What we call the regional conflict between Northern and Southern states
What is the Sectional Conflict or Sectionalism?
The president during first stage of reconstruction
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Act of 1850 required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
What was the Missouri Compromise?
A federal law that permitted Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and permitting slavery in all new states created south of Missouri's southern border. This maintained the balance of power in the senate.
This treaty ceded most of present day California, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona from Mexico to the United States
What is the treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe?
The trans-atlantic crossing of imprisoned Africans on slave ships from Africa to the Americas
What is the middle passage?
Separation of powers spreads governmental authority between these three branches of the federal government
What are executive, legistlative, and judicial?
Amendment that gave blacks the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
Defined citizenship as anyone born in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?
The amendment that prohibited slavery
What is the 13th?
Led a revolt at Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This Supreme Court case upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional
What was the Dred Scott decision? Will accept Scott vs. Sanford
Leading up to the Civil War, the regional conflict between the north and south was divided into three main categories
What were the categories of differences of slavery, differences of economics, and differences of cultures?