Antebellum Culture
This was the process of allowing the people in a territory to vote on whether that territory would become a slave or free state.
What is popular sovereignty?
This phrase was justified American land acquisition by claiming that God wanted Americans to take all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Lincoln won election without winning any states in this region.
What is the South?
This political party emerged in the 1850s to represent the interests of the North and Midwest.
What is the Republican party?
This system arose when workers wanted to farm land autonomously but could not afford to buy land of their own. It was characterized by workers tending land owned by the wealthy, and paying for the land by giving the owner some of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
Breaking tools, working slowly, and pretending not to understand what was expected of them were ways that slaves did this.
What is rebelling/resisting?
This act, which promised 160 acres of free land to any citizen or prospective citizen who could live on it for five years, convinced many would-be small farmers to move west of the Mississippi.
What is the Homestead Act?
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln expressed moderate views on slavery but staunchly opposed this issue.
What is secession?
This Reconstruction-era constitutional amendment sharply divided the women's suffrage movement.
What is the 15th amendment?
These laws severely limited the rights and opportunities of freedmen.
This novel convinced many Northerners that slavery was morally wrong.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The legislature formed in this territory was fraudulent and led to the creation of a second, rival government and eventually guerilla warfare.
What is Kansas?
This Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were not citizens and did not have Constitutional Rights.
What is the Dred Scott case?
The Know-Nothing Party, as well as some aspects of social reform movements like temperance, grew out of this sentiment.
What is nativism?
This amendment to the Constitution prohibited slavery except as punishment for a crime someone has been convicted of.
What is the 13th Amendment?
As new territories became states, the US government worked to maintain the balance of power here.
What is Congress (specifically the Senate)?
Under this treaty, the US received Texas, California, and New Mexico from Mexico at the end of the Mexican-American war.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Many Northerners were upset that this law required them to assist in returning runaway slaves to their masters.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This movement opposed slavery on the grounds that it was bad for the labor prospects of white men.
What is the free soil movement?
In these two actions, Lincoln reframed the purpose of the Civil War to emphasize abolition.
What are the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address?
Commodore Matthew Perry traveled to and established communication between the US and this nation in 1853.
What is Japan?
The proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory ceded by Mexico was known by this name.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This 1856 action in Congress horrified and enraged Northerners.
What is "Bleeding Sumner"?
Over time, many enslavers began to argue that slavery was a positive good, largely based on perceived support from these two very different documents.
What are the US Constitution and the Bible?
When an amendment to the Constitution prohibited states from establishing voting qualifications based on race, Southern states used these criteria instead.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?