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This act provided 160 acres of free land for settlers.
What is the Homestead Act?
These New England intellectuals wrote about the corrupting influence of society and the importance of hard work and self-reliance. Emerson and Thoreau were among them.
Who were the Transcendentalists?
This Yale graduate student Yale grad student revolutionized cotton production with his famous invention and rapidly expanded the institution of slavery.
Who was Eli Whitney?
This northern general started a trend and became a namesake.
Who was Ambrose Burnside?
This actor gained national attention, but not for his stage performance.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
This 1820 law allowed Missouri and Maine to enter the Union in order to maintain the sectional balance between free and slave states while prohibiting slavery north of the 36º 30’ parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Founded by Mother Ann Lee, this utopian religious community lived by the motto “hands to work, hearts to God '' and became best known for their industriousness, unique furniture style, and the song "Simple Gifts."
Who were the Shakers?
These chained groups of newly-purchased slaves became a common sight in the Deep South as slavery expanded in the first half of the nineteenth century.
What were coffles?
This 1863 act ensured Grant had all of the men he needed for his Overland Campaign.
What was the Enrollment Act?
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a temporary war measure until it was replaced by this permanent addition to the constitution.
What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
The journalist John O'Sullivan first used this famous phrase in 1845.
What is manifest destiny?
This famous evangelist became the most famous figure of the Second Great Awakening.
Who was Charles Grandison Finney?
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In the years before the Civil War, there were also nearly half a million free blacks in the United States, many of these due to this legal act.
What is manumission?
Robert E. Lee's unsuccessful invasion of the north led to this battle, the deadliest day in American history.
What is Antietam?
This indecisive general was fired for his unwillingness to act, then he acted out in a big way by challenging Lincoln for the presidency in 1864.
Who was George McClellan?
This 1862 act provided grants of land to states to finance the creation of agricultural colleges.
What was the Land Grant College Act?
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What was the Morrill Act?
This religious leader wrote a book and believed in "plural marriage." His followers now live in the Great Salt Lake Basin out west.
Who was Joseph Smith?
This black preacher led a famous slave uprising in 1831 that caused southerners to institute increasingly restrictive measures around slave life.
What was Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Ulysses S. Grant defeated Lee's army with this approach, and it came at great cost.
What is a war of attrition?
Southerners believed that Lincoln and the North were violating this principle by refusing to allow the Southern states to do as the majority of their populations wanted to do, which was secede.
What is state sovereignty?
This event added half a million square miles to the territory of the United States and extended the debate about slavery's expansion further into the west.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This New England reformer fought to end slavery and founded The Liberator and the American Anti-Slavery society.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
At the outset of the Civil War, the South adopted this diplomatic method that suppressed cotton production and banned cotton exports to force Great Britain and France to intervene in the war.
What is King Cotton diplomacy?
Perhaps the greatest military mistake of Robert E. Lee's career, this cost him the Battle of Gettysburg, and his army never again set foot on northern soil.
What was Pickett's Charge?
While slavery was a central cause of the war, this was the initial reason why Lincoln and the North were against secession.
What is restoring and preserving the union?