Unit 5 (a)
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What is the 13th Amendment?
People saw the ruling in this case as a way to stop debate about slavery in the territories
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Intensified competition between France and Britain over colonies resulted in this
What is the Seven Years War?
The exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
According to this amendment, suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
What is the 15th Amendment?
19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The arrangement under which public offices were handed out on the basis of political support rather than qualifications
What is the Spoils System?
This limited western expansion of colonial settlement
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
The earliest British colonies in Virginia were saved from economic ruin by this crop
What is tobacco?
Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Greater population and industrial development was an advantage to whom during the Civil War?
What is the Union/North?
Devised by Henry Clay, this policies components focus on transportation, revenue, and the federal bank.
What is the American System?
This was the first direct tax on the colonists; colonists were upset because they were taxed without their consent
What is the Stamp Act?
The Spanish developed a race-based caste system that defined the status of Europeans, Native Americans, Africans, and people of mixed race in their colonies.
What is the Encomienda System?
This agreement resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The most direct reason for the secession of South Carolina?
What is the Election of 1860?
This stated European powers should not pursue any future colonization in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Issued by George Washington, it proclaimed America's formal neutrality in the escalating conflict between England and France, a statement that enraged pro-French Jeffersonians
What is the Proclamation of Neutrality?
The majority of the English migrants in this are were indentured servants
What were the Chesapeake colonies?
This added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War but the measure was blocked in the southern-dominated Senate and it enflamed the growing controversy over slavery
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Ended the War of 1812 and required all conquered territory to be returned and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United State and Canada
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
This event strengthened the movement for a new constitution
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The first full-scale armed insurrection in Colonial America pitting a landowner and his supporters of indentured servants against Governor William Berkeley
What is Bacon's Rebellion?