Manifestation
The belief that it was God’s will for the United States to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
An executive order that freed any slave in areas in open rebellion against the United States government. Slavery in the border states was still legal however.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Several southern states seceded to form the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy sought to protect the institution of slavery, while the Union sought to abolish slavery and keep the southern states from seceding. This resulted in the war fought from 1861 to 1865.
What is the Civil War?
It provided that Rutherford B. Hayes would become president only if he agreed to remove the last remaining federal troops stationed in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. The end of martial law in the South was one effect of this.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The oldest voter-based political party in the world that stood for individual rights, state sovereignty, opposed banks, and disagreed with high tariffs.
What is the Democratic Party
A conflict between Mexico and Texas regarding the border lines. The resolution to the disagreement gave America current-day New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Mexico was rewarded reparations in the sum of $15 million.
Mexican-American War
Required that escaped slaves, after their capture, would be returned to their masters, and that the authorities in a free state had to cooperate with this process.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Fought July 1–3, 1863 ,in southern Pennsylvania, it was the final major Confederate push into the North. General Lee’s defeat caused Britain and France to lose hope in the Confederacy.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
A statesman and Kentucky who was known as “The Great Compromiser” for brokering multiple deals over nullification and slavery.
Who is Henry Clay?
A party comprised of antislavery advocates who oppose the expansion of slavery into the new Western territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
An influx of settlers began traveling westward throughout the 1840s. Families traveled up to six months in caravans, covering only about 15 miles per day. While living on the trail, some women began to run prayer meetings and schools to maintain some vestiges of home. Women also began to take on new roles outside of homemaking and childcare, such as repairing wagon wheels and tending to livestock.
What is the Oregan Trail?
Winfield Scott’s plan to defeat the Confederacy by using the navy to implement a blockade at Southern ports, and take control of the Mississippi River, cut through Georgia to reach the Carolinas, and capture the Confederate capitol at Richmond.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
In 1855-1859, pro and antislavery forces battled, raided, and massacred to make Kansas either a free or slave state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This compromise resulted in California was admitted as a free state, creation of the New Mexico and Utah territories, and popular sovereignty would determine slavery’s status in them, it banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and it enacted a stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The opposition to the Jacksonian Democracy and favored economic nationalism, a strong central government, and the reevaluation of the national bank.
What is the Whig Party?
The cause of California's population explosion as Eastern people migrated to the state to seek a fortune in mining gold.
What is the California Gold Rush?
These codes restricted the actions, movements, and freedoms of African Americans. Under these codes, African Americans could not own land, so they were tied instead to small plots leased from a landowner.
What is Black Codes
A Civil War battle that took place on September 17, 1862, also the bloodiest sungle-day battle in U.S History (killing over 22,000 people).
What is Antietam?
Ends the Mexican-American War and granted California, and most of the Southwest (including current-day New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada), to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Founded in 1854 by antislavery Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, and Know-Nothings from the North and West. [Also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP)]
What is the Republican Party?
His campaign slogan was “Fifty-four forty or fight!” and advocated heavily for Manifest Destiny. He served as the 11th president.
Who is James K. Polk?
This novel expressed Northern abolitionist frustrations with the Fugitive Slave Act. In the North, the novel quickly gained fame and convinced many that slavery was morally wrong, while the south argued that slavery was desired by slaves because they were taken care of.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Placed the South under martial law, dividing the South into five districts that would be governed by a Union general stationed in each. The act further tightened the requirements of former Confederate states by requiring petitioning states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and provide for universal male suffrage.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
An 1842 treaty that divided a contested territory in northern Maine between the United States and Britain.
What is the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
A political party formed by conservative and moderate Whigs concerned that Lincoln’s election would lead to the end the Union. The party hoped to garner enough Republican votes to prevent the Southern states from seceding. It won Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?