Westward Expansion
widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is the Manifest Destiny?
1857 Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves had no rights to citizenship and threatened to extend slavery everywhere in the United States
What was Dred Scott v Sanford?
This is a form of farming that tied newly freed slaves to the land they work and tried to limit the social mobility of newly freed slaves.
What is Sharecroppingt?
Group of northerners that traveled south to help or take advantage of southerners during Reconstruction
What is a Carpetbagger?
Although the border was not established at 54'40", this land was added to the USA after a boundary dispute with the British was settled in 1846.
What is the Oregon territory?
This speech formalized the Union goal for the Civil War and symbolically ended slavery in the rebellious states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This compromise brought republican Rutherford B Hayes into the presidency and removed Union troops from the south, ending military reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Those who wanted to restore white rule in the South in order to help the South recover after the Civil War.
What is a redeemer?
treaty that ended the Mexican American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision that also created California statehood.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Union General that led the "March to the Sea" from Atlanta to Savannah burning everything in sight along the way
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This constitutional amendment granted broad citizenship rights and sought to protect the equality of newly freed slaves under the law.
What is 14th Amendment?
Group of people that terrorized African Americans and northern supporters during Reconstruction
Who is the KKK?
inhabitants of a territory vote on issues, particularly slavery, when becoming a state.
What is popular sovereignty?
This older compromise was nullified by the Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Decision.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This federal organization help freedmen find jobs, housing, and education after the end of slavery
What is the freedman's bureau?
This constitutional amendment gave all African American men the right to vote in 1870
What is 15th Amendment?
The President after Lincoln was assassinated, he was impeached for violating the tenure of office act but acquitted, attempted a lenient version of reconstruction
Who is Andrew Johnson?
name of the American purchase of Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
1858 conflict which abolitionists raided an armory in an attempt to arm and free slaves in Virginia.
What is John Brown's Raid?
These were laws passed after the compromise of 1877, that sought to take away the new rights and freedoms granted to African Americans during reconstruction
What are Black Codes?
Nicknames given to Southerners who supported Republican regimes and reconstruction.
What are scalawags?