The US and the World
A widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny?
Created a line from east to west along the 36th parallel, dividing the nation into competing halves—half free, half slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its legality in this area
What are the territories?
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln?
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the cro
What is sharecropping?
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.
Who is John Brown?
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
This strategy effectively stifled Southern resources(although it wasn't so scary at first)
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
What are black codes?
American businessman who brought settlers to Texas and aided in the eventual Texas revolution
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Name given to Southern slavery advocates whose ownership increased their social standing
What is the "slavocracy"?
The Supreme Court opinion 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
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
Achieved by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights?
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?
The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
What is enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?
Granted freedom to slaves in the Confederacy
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans?
The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny can be linked to this belief - a continuity from colonial times
What is racial/cultural superiority?
Southerners used writings from this book to defend slavery as a positive good
What is the Bible?
Major event caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Bloody Kansas?
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. Not slavery.
What is federal v state power?