Politics and Power
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the final nail in the coffin for the ______ Party.
Whig
BONUS
What party succeeded them?
the main industry in the Southern states
plantation farming
The idea that it is America's God given right and duty to spread American people and ideals from sea to shining sea.
Manifest Destiny
States that maintained slaves but also sided with the North during the Civil War were called this.
What is border states?
Those who believed that all Black people should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Radical Republicans
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision regarding California statehood. What was it called?
Compromise of 1850
a nativist political party and movement in the United States who believed immigrants were corrupting Northern cities
The Know-Nothing Party
The idea that states should be able to vote on the legalization of slavery in their territory is considered...
Popular Sovereignty.
What was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?
the election of 1860
In what system did planters rent out tools and land to farmers in exchange for pay/crops?
sharecropping
1. Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the South like best?
2. Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the North like best?
1. Passing new fugitive slave laws
2. Adding California as a free state
a short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854 that wanted to forbid slavery from the territories, but for an economic, not moral reason
Free-Soil Party
Which act gave territories Popular Sovereignty over the issue of slavery?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska act?
The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because it
Two pieces of evidence supporting the claim that although Reconstruction led to some progress for formerly enslaved people, ultimately it was a failure.
Black codes, sharecropping, KKK, redeemer groups
What was one important decision/result of the Dred Scott case?
1. Dred Scott couldn't sue in court because he wasn't a citizen
2. The gov't can't deprive people of their "property"
3. congress couldn't limit slavery in the territories
The belief that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in
the New York City draft riots
How did the Mexican Cession lead to growing tensions between the North & the South?
led to tensions about the expansion of slavery in new territories
what did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed slaves in states of rebellion
BONUS
How did it change the war?
What was the Freedmen's Bureau and what did it do?
The Freedmen's Bureau provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the Southern States by establishing schools, purchasing land, locating family members, and legalizing marriages.
Explain the Bargain/Compromise of 1877 and the effect it had on the south.
The Compromise of 1877 gave the presidency to the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes, in exchange for federal troops being removed from the south. This enabled the south to enact policies and laws that made life almost identical to how it had been pre-Civil War.
What did Lincoln try to achieve with the Gettysburg Address?
Honor the dead who had given their lives for the Union cause and gain continued support for the war effort
What were two causes of westward expansion?
The desire to expand economic, diplomatic, and cultural ties with Asia across the Pacific Ocean.
The desire for access to natural and mineral resources.
1. Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas
2. Dred Scott vs. Sanford
3. Harpers Ferry Raid
1. Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas - first blood spilt, Missouri Compromise repealed
2. Dred Scott vs. Sanford - Black people no longer protected by the constitution, slavery could go anywhere, and Lincoln runs for office
3. Harpers Ferry Raid - first white man/abolitionist sacrificed his life to end slavery
Name the rights given by the 13, 14, and 15 amendments.
13. Free the slaves
14. extension of citizenship
15. right to vote for African Americans