The US and the World
This proposed law attempted to prevent the spread of slavery by calling for any territory acquired from Mexico to be free of slavery
Allowed for Maine to enter the Union as a free state, Missouri as a slave state and forbade slavery north of the 36 30'
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law
What is the Homestead Act
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred (led raid of federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry)
Who is John Brown
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
The strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
The Mexican-American War created this between the North and the South over the issue of slavery.
What is tension
Moral arguments, the Underground Railroad, and violence were all strategies used by...
What are abolitionists
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
The Union victories that turned the tide of the war
What is Gettysburg and Antietam
The causation of the sharecropping system in the South (causes and effect)
What is need for workers and need for land resulting in economic dependency
Whigs in the Senate rejected this treaty, which effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war
What are railroads
Required strict enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, admitted California as a free state, and banned slave trade in Washington D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850
The Civil War event that makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare
What are the Draft Riots in NYC
The underlying political question that plagued all laws and decisions leading up to the Civil War
What is federal v state power war
The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny can be linked to this belief - a continuity from colonial times
What is racial/cultural superiority
This political party sought to keep slavery from expanding.
What is the free soil party
Three major events caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Bloody Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, overturn of Missouri Compromise
The threefold purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war
The South used these (give three) to resist the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause, segregation "Jim Crow", Supreme Court "Plessy v Ferguson"