Expansion
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
What was decided in the Kansas Nebraska Act?
split territory
allow popular sovereignty
first major battle of the war that showed each side that it would be a much longer war than anticipated
battle of bull run
54, 40 or fight
polk's slogan to gain the oregon territory from britain
What is one of the most well known books written to expose the treatment of enslaved peoples in America?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Advantages held by the Confederacy
unity around a cause
homeland advantage
defensive war
event that encouraged migration to California
gold rush
The Ruffians and Jayhawks fought over this legislation.
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Plan used by Union
Anaconda Plan-block southern ports
Take Mississippi
take Richmond
total warfare
group that went out west for religious reasons
Mormons
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the South get? Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the North get?
Passing new fugitive slave laws, popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico
Adding California as a free state, no slave trade in DC
How did the Emancipation proclamation change the war?
changed it to a moral war
The land won from the Mexican American War intensified what?
sectional tensions
What was the decision in the Dred Scott case?
1. Dred Scott couldn't sue in court because he wasn't a citizen
2. The gov can't deprive people of their "property"
3. The decision allowed slavery in the territories
Extra points: What legislation was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott case?
Turning point battle that assured a Union victory
Battle of Gettysburg