≈1840s
The belief that America was destined to expand to the Pacific and possibly into Canada and Mexico
Manifest Destiny
Compromise of 1850
An abolitionists who led his followers to seize a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to ignite a slave rebellion.
John Brown
Declared that all enslaved people to be free in areas under rebel control, this also altered the perception of the war from a conflict to preserve the Union to a war that would end slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
A period following the Civil War in which the United States tried to transform the organization and society of former Confederate States.
Reconstruction
Organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, it is considered the birth of the women's rights movement.
Seneca Falls Convention
Group that were part of the nativist political movement that was anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic.
Know-Nothing Party
During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas offered this to argue that slavery could be prevented if people living in a territory refused to pass laws favorable to slavery.
Freeport Doctrine
The bloodiest, most decisive battle of the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
Andrew Johnson
This group opposed the extension of slavery into new territories, supported national improvement programs, and promoted lower tariffs for revenue only.
Free Soil Party
It called for two territories to be created and the issue of slavery to be decided based on the settlers, it also revoked the provision of the Missouri Compromise that excluded slavery from the territory above the 30' - 36'.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Response to the election of Abraham Lincoln, who sought to end slavery. South Carolina being the first on December 20, 1860.
Secession
Believed in a "total war" that would break the South's psychological capacity to fight; this military campaign sought to eliminate civilian support of Souther's troops.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Restrictions set by the Southern states on former slaves, they were designed to replicate the conditions of slavery in the post-Civil War South.
Black Codes
A doctrine under which the status of slavery in territories would be determined by the settlers themselves.
Popular Sovereignty
Supreme Court case involving and enslaved man who was taken from Missouri, a slave state, to Illinois, a free state.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Larger Population
- Railroads, trade routes
- More wealth
- Moral issue of fighting slavery as motivation
Federal support agency providing food, clothing, and education for freed men and women.
Freedmen's Bureau
A militant organization seeking solutions to labor problems, their downfall was caused by the emergence of the AFL, and violence at the Haymarket Riot.
Knights of Labor
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This novel critical of slavery _________, written by ________ turned many toward active opposition of slavery and helped bolster sympathy for abolitionism.
Title & Author!
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Name two Civil War Advantages for the SOUTH
- Home field advantage
- Robert E. Lee, Joseph Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston, and "Stonewall Jackson"
- Protect culture, and institutions (slavery)
- Vast land size
____ made Black Americans citizens + equal protection under the law + due process.
____ abolished slavery in the U.S.
____ stated that no state could deny the right to vote on the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
14, 13, 15 - Civil War Amendments
Battle of Little Bighorn