The US and the World
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God and America should expand their territory across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny
This violent event before the Civil War involved John Brown and conflict between those who supported expansion of slavery and those who were opposed to expansion of slavery
Bleeding Kansas
Famous book written by Harriett Beecher Stowe that showed the brutalities of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Those in congress who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
What year was gold discovered in California?
1848
The Union plan to split the Confederacy in half blockade their coast
What is the Anaconda Plan
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments do?
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
American who brought settlers to Texas and aided in the eventual Texas revolution
Who is Stephen F. Austin
Which movement opposed the westward expansion of slavery but did not oppose slavery in the South.
The Free Soil Movement
The Supreme Court case that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union. These battles occurred at the same time.
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg
This group was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest and attempted to restrict the civil rights of African Americans
The Ku Klux Klan
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This part of the Compromise of 1850 meant that freed slaves who escaped to the North legally had to be returned to slave masters.
The Fugitive Slave Act
This battle started the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Southern nickname for people who came from the North to profit from reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Which president had the slogan “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” which appealed strongly to American Westerners and Southerners who were in an expansionist mood.
James Polk
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, a woman who had escaped slavery. She made at least 19 trips into the South to help some 300 people escape.
Harriett Tubman
What dramatic event happened to Senator Charles Sumner after he criticized slavery in the Senate?
He was beaten by Preston Brooks with a cane on the Senate floor
These two ironclad ships battled at the mouth of the James River. Neither conclusively won the battle.
Monitor Vs. Merrimack
This group helped to created Black universities and did their best to support African Americans after the end of the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau