Westward Expansion
The idea that America was destined to expand across the North American Continent.
What is Westward Expansion?
The newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison to promote abolition.
What is the Liberator?
The name of the boundary created under the Missouri Compromise that said slavery could not exist North of it.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
The first state to secede from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln.
What is South Carolina?
To explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory, Thomas Jefferson hired these two explorers.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Texas declared independence from this formerly-colonized country, before being annexed by the United States.
What is "Mexico?"
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a disturbingly descriptive account of slavery, which altered perception of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The violent outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed for popular sovereignty to determine whether each state would be slave/free.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The Gettysburg Address redirected the focus of the war from _______________ to _____________________.
What are "preserving the union," to "abolishing slavery?"
The Declaration of Sentiments took language from this important document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The name of the forced migration of major Native tribes to reservations West of the Mississippi River.
What is the "Trail of Tears?"
The event that led Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to pursue the cause of women's suffrage.
What is being restricted from an Abolition Convention?
The Compromise of 1850 included this law that required slaves to be returned to their owners, regardless of where they escaped to within the US.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
General Ulysses S. Grant led his March to the Sea to conquer this state (in order to split the Confederacy)?
What is Georgia?
Supporters of the War of 1812 against Britain.
Who are the War Hawks?
The city, and reason for, that Jefferson wanted when he purchased Louisiana from the French.
What is "New Orleans to allow shipment of goods through the Mississippi River"
This major religious movement impacted ideas of abolition, specifically by believing that all people could be redeemed.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The North's strategy viewed the Civil War as a ______________, which required destroying anything that could be used by the Confederacy.
What is total war?
The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery ___________________.
What is "only in rebelling states?"
How did Westward Expansion create conditions that led to the American Civil War?
What is "Slavery in New States Debate"
Who led enslaved people on the underground railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The decision in Dred Scott v. Stanford had what effect on the institution of Slavery in the US?
What is "allowed slavery in any state, regardless if free/slave"
The Union had what benefits going into the Civil War? (list at least three benefits)
-More Manufacturing
-More Farmland
-Bigger Population
-More Railroads and Telegraph Lines
This doctrine forbid Europe from further colonizing the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?