Topic 5.2
The context for this ideology was that Americans believed it was their God-given right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This important treaty ended the Mexican-American War and led to the U.S. owning vast western territory.
What is the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo?
This turning point 1850 package of laws aimed to settle disputes over territories gained from Mexico.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This 1861 event marked the start of open conflict between the Union and Confederacy.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
As a result of the Union's victory in the Civil War, this 1865 amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This pivotal war, beginning in 1846, was fought over disputed territory between the U.S. and Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This proposed law aimed to ban slavery in any territory gained from Mexico but failed in Congress.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Because of the context of slave revolts and slave escapes, this law required citizens to assist in the capture of enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
He was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This agency was established to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1844 slogan reflected Americans' desire to expand into the Oregon Territory.
What is "54°40' or Fight!"?
This doctrine of allowing people in territories to vote on slavery would become highly controversial, causing the effect of Northern and Southern tensions.
What is popular sovereignty?
This significant act repealed the Missouri Compromise and led to violent conflict in the Midwest.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This very significant speech by Lincoln redefined the war's purpose and emphasized equality and unity.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Continuing the American past of encroaching on Native land, this 1830s-40s event forced Native American tribes west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears)?
This term refers to the acquisition of land including present-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican Cession?
The abolitionist author's novel helped mobilize Northern anti-slavery sentiment.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)?
This military strategy aimed to suffocate the South's economy and divide its territory.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This 1870 amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of race.
What is the 15th amendment?
As a successor to Manifest Destiny, this 1845 event caused heightened tensions with Mexico, especially due to border disputes.
What is the annexation of Texas?
Due to the context of abolition debates, this political party emerged in the 1840s to oppose slavery's expansion into western territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This general led the devastating "March to the Sea," breaking Southern morale.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
As a result of the continuation of nativism, this group used violence to suppress Black political power and restore white supremacy in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?