Events in 1850s
When a proslavery Congressman beat another Congressman with his cane
What is the Sumner-Brooks Incident?
What is a military victory?
This was the final straw that caused South Carolina to secede.
This Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The idea that America was destined by God to expand westward and spread Democratic and capitailistic ideals from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Who are the Copperheads?
The Union's Strategy in the Civil War that was a Naval Blockade from Louisiana to Virginia.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
At least 3 ways rights of African Americans were still limited during Reconstruction.
What are:
Poll Taxes, Literacy tests, Grandfather clause, black codes, KKK intimidation
People freed by the Emancipation Proclomation.
Who are slaves in rebelling states?
This was an unsuccessful attempt to by Congress to ban slavery in the new territory acquired from the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Lincoln's main goal at the beginning of the Civil War was this.
*What is preserving/ saving the Union?
What is:
* more talented military leaders
defensive warfare, common cause?
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This ended the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A law that required the capture and return of runaway slaves.
What is the fugitive slave act/law?
The most lenient plan for reconstruction
what is the 10% plan?
Civil war ended here.
Where is the Appotomax Courthouse?
Opponents to the 10 Percent Plan.
Who are Radical Republicans?
Name 2 territories gained because of Mexican American War
What are: California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas?
*Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slavery question in Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of this.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
* The provisions of the 1860 Republican party platform would most likely have appealed to members of which political party.
What is the Whig party?
Wooden battleships with iron plates welded to the hull, used in naval warfare.
What are ironclads?
*Lincoln did this during the Civil War and it limited the rights of citizens in response to threats of secession in border states like Maryland
What is suspend the writ of Habeus Corpus?
*Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it learned this.
What is Lincoln sending supplies to the fort?