Westward Expansion
Term for the belief in US territorial expansion
What is Manifest Destiny, Young America
The dispute over slavery in this midwestern territory throughout the 1850s kept the controversy boiling
What is Kansas
Worst anti-draft vio occurred among poor whites here
This southern commander was defeated both at Antietam and Gettysburg by the north
What is R.E. Lee
Key port for western commerce, US acquired it in 1803
What is New Orleans
He encouraged US migration to Mexican Texas
What is Stephen F. Austin
He created the Kansa-Nebraska Act, and unleashed tremendous chaos as a result
What is Stephen Douglas
Chief method of war finance for the North
What is borrowing money
The violence began with the Southern attack on this US fortification
What is Ft. Sumter
Political Party organized around Clay, Webster, Calhoun
What is Whigs or National Republicans
It was the chief migration from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast
What is Oregon Trail
The compromise of 1850 weakened this political party, the Kansas-Nebraska Act killed it
What is Whig Party
Nickname for Democrats opposed to the war
What is copperheads
This US commander made his reputation in 1862 with a victory at the Battle of Shiloh
What is U.S. Grant
Philosophical and literary movement that celebrate intuition and instinct as forms of knowing
What is transcendentalism
These people, from New England mostly, made the first contact between Americans and Spanish California
What is Whalers or Merchants
Party committed to nativism rose quickly faded almost as fast
What is American party
DD named for the senators who proposed it, it gave land and money to states to create colleges and universities
What is Morrill Act
His victory at Atlanta in 1864 secured Lincoln’s re-election
What is W.T. Sherman
Artistic style the glorified nature
What is Hudson River School
This US president first Embraced Texas Annexation, but his hope for an annexation treaty (An re-election) failed in 1844.
What is John Taylor
The Supreme Court failed badly to end the sectional debate with this ruling
What is Dred Scot
This diplomatic incident was the most serious crisis between the US And Britain during the Civil War
What is The Trent Affair
Grant’s victory here in the spring of 1865 forced Lee out of Richmond and caused his surrender
What is Petersburg
As President in the 1810s, he supported the National Bank, but vetoed money for trans projects
What is James Madison