The US and the World
a widely held belief that expanding West and incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
California was admitted as a free state, land acquired from Mexico was set up as territories and slavery was decided by popular sovereignty. Also strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This person was elected in 1870 to the seat the Jefferson Davis once held.
Hiram Revels
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
A conductor on the Underground Railroad. She led hundreds of enslaved men, women, and children to the north.
Harriet Tubman
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
Who was elected President of the United States in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Was a consultant to Abraham Lincoln and convinced Lincoln that black folks should be able to serve in the Union Army. He would eventually write an autobiography.
Frederick Douglass
Law that attempted to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico. It was passed by the house and rejected by the senate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This political party was founded on the platform of "free soil, free labor, and free men." Wanted to prevent slavery in the West, so that white settlers had job opportunities. Not against slavery in the South.
What is the Free Soil Party?
Organization that supported and educated formerly enslaved persons and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Who was President Abraham Lincoln's Vice President?
Andrew Johnson
Elected to a senate seat in Mississippi. This was the former seat of Jefferson Davis.
Hiram Revels
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
Three aspects of Congressional Reconstruction.
South split up into 5 military districts, Disenfranchisement of former Confederates, New state Constitutions including black suffrage, 13th and 14th amendment.
Who was elected President of the United States in 1869 during Reconstruction?
Ulysses S. Grant
First black regiment to fight in the Union Army. Sometimes credited with turning the tide of the war.
The 54th regiment.
The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny can be linked to the inflammation of what already existing problem?
Sectionalism between the North and South
The three main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons
What was Lincoln's main purpose by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?
End the war
Three reasons why Reconstruction Failed
Confederate southerners regain control of southern politics, white supremist terrorist organizations, failure to protect the rights of black folks, black codes, sharecropping.
This president held the office prior to Abe Lincoln
James Buchanan
"Ain't I a Woman"?
Sojourner Truth