Map It Out
America's "God-given right" to spread Westward
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Emancipation Proclamation said...
What is slaves in the Confederacy are free?
Agreement that established the 36/30 line for slavery
What is the Missouri Compromise?
First battle of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
The Supreme Court case that stated that African Americans, free or not, are not considered US citizens
Dred Scott V. Sandford
Mexican Cession increased tensions over this
What is the expansion of slavery?
Significance of Juneteenth
What is the date the last slaves in Texas were told of their freedom?
The people in a territory get to decide themselves on the issue of slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Slaves states that stayed in the Union were called
What is border states?
The phrase in the 13th amendment that allows for forced labor of prisoners
4 states that were added after the Mexican American War
What are Texas, California, New Mexico and Utah?
Slave who led a violent rebellion & killed 50 people
Who is Nat Turner?
The part of the Compromise of 1850 that the South liked best
What are stricter Fugitive Slave Laws?
Significance of the Union victory at Gettysburg
What is it the turning point that forced Confederates back down south?
The 14th Amendment says
What is: Citizenship to people (1) born in the US (2) naturalized. (Except Native Americans)
Equal protection for everyone under the law. ?
This gave territories Popular Sovereignty over the issue of slavery
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The passage of the 14th amendment reversed this decision
What is the Dred Scott case?
Proposed resolution to prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The most direct reason for the secession of South Carolina
What is the election of 1860/election of Lincoln?
3 ways Black Codes limited citizenship
What are: marriage, travel, work/living restrictions, literacy tests, poll taxes, etc. ?
The push to have no slavery in new northern territories (Illinois, Michigan and Ohio)
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Name the rights of the 13, 14, and 15 amendments
What is:
13. Freedom the slaves
14. Citizenship
15. Right to vote for African American men?
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislation
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Name four aspects that needed to be "Reconstructed" post-Civil War
What are physical, social, economic & political?
Legislation that protected the citizenship of African Americans, vetoed by Johnson but passed by Congress
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?