Westward Expansion
Two-word term for the belief that the United States had the divine right to "overspread the continent"
What is Manifest Destiny?
The most immediate cause of the Civil War was this event, which took place on November 6, 1860
What is the election of Lincoln?
The early part of the war featured shocking victories by the Confederacy, whose army was under the command of this general
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Lincoln's assassination elevated this Tennessee racist to the presidency, after which he would become the first president to be impeached
Who is Andrew Johnson?
In 1868, this former Union general and noted drunk was elected president; he served for two terms
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This territory's fight for independence from Mexico led to a decade-long debate over annexation within the US; its annexation eventually led to war with Mexico in 1846
What is Texas?
This abolitionist's raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry increased fears in the South that the North wanted to incite a slave uprising
Who is John Brown?
Lee's attempts to win battles in the North failed at Antietam and this Pennsylvania town
What is Gettysburg?
After the war, this man, the president of the Confederacy, was imprisoned for two years but then released
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Many white Southerners called themselves "Redeemers" during Reconstruction, hoping to remove the federal troops from the South; many Redeemers joined this secret paramilitary organization created during the period
What is the KKK?
This president is most associated with Manifest Destiny; he successfully won the Mexican-American War and settled the boundary dispute with Britain over the Oregon Territory
Who is James K. Polk?
With the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Senator Stephen Douglas proposed this two-word policy, where the people of the territories would get to choose whether or not to allow slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
The Union victory at Antietam in September 1862 allowed Lincoln to issue this document, which was intended as a war measure to help weaken the South
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
In the five years following the war, three constitutional amendments were passed, including this one, which granted citizenship and equal protection to all former slaves
What is the 14th Amendment?
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were the leading members of this group of senators who wanted to impose stricter restrictions on the South and ensure racial equality
Who were the Radical Republicans?
What is ban slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 was disliked by both the North and the South: the South was against the admission of California as a free state, and the North opposed, and often refused to comply with, this part of the compromise
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This Northern plan to win the war included a naval blockade and a campaign to control the Mississippi River; some regarded it as too conservative of a plan
What is the Anaconda plan?
While he and Lincoln did meet during the war, this famous abolitionist, former slave, and "Narrative" writer supported John Fremont of the Radical Democracy party in the 1864 presidential election
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Reconstruction ultimately ended with the Compromise of 1877, in which Democrats allowed this Republican to "win" the presidency in exchange for removing federal troops from the South
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
A relatively small area of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased from Mexico in 1853; the purchase was named for the US ambassador to Mexico
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Who was Dred Scott?
This other Union general's famous "March to the Sea" brought total war to the South in 1864, and helped ensure Lincoln's reelection
Who is William Sherman?
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address in March 1865 acknowledged the righteousness of the war while also aspiring for a peaceful reconciliation between North and South, "with" this "toward none, with charity for all..."
What is malice?
These laws were passed in the South during the Johnson administration in order to restrict the activities of the former slaves; they were the forerunners of the Jim Crow laws that would be passed after the end of Reconstruction
What were the Black Codes?