The US and the World
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory out west was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
This political party formed with a main goal of stopping the spread of slavery out west. They were NOT abolitionists. Lincoln was one early in his career.
Who are "Free-Soilers?"
Conflict over slavery continued to pop back up in the U.S. because of this.
What is Territorial expansion / Manifest Destiny?
Politicians 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 that gave away free 160-acre plots of land
What is the Homestead Act
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred after seizing Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery in the territories
What is popular sovereignty
Name of the of the military strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
American empresario who brought settlers to Texas and aided in the eventual Texas revolution
Who is Stephen F. Austin
This woman's book about the brutality of slavery came out shortly after the Compromise of 1850 which included a tougher Fugitive Slave Law. It inspired much more abolitionist feelings in the North.
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
Name of the major northern or Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg
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
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war. Helped transport troops and supplies.
What are railroads
In 1860, this compromise was offered to southern states who had announced they were going to secede from the Union. It was rejected by Lincoln because it violated his Free-Soiler principles.
What is the Crittenden Compromise
The underlying political question that plagued all laws and decisions leading up to the Civil War - and how it was resolved by both the war and then by the end of Reconstruction
What is federal v state power war = federal over state end of Reconstruction = state over federal. Supremacy of the Fed.
The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny and slavery can be linked to this belief- a continuity from colonial times
What is racial/cultural superiority
Explain two pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons (wage slaves)
Explain one of the threefold purposes of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war
Two pieces of evidence supporting the claim that Reconstruction was a time of conflict over new definitions of citizenship
What is Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, the Colfax massacre, the White League, the split in the Women's Rights movement, Hiram Revels