a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Northern social group who formed the basis of its free-labor manufacturing economy
Who are immigrants
100
Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its legality in this area
What is the territories
100
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
100
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
200
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law
What is the Homestead Act
200
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
Who is John Brown
200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
200
The strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
300
American empresario who brought settlers to Texas and aided in the eventual Texas revolution
Who is Stephen F. Austin
300
Name given to Southern slavery advocates whose ownership increased their social standing
What is the "slavocracy"
300
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
300
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg
300
One of the most violent groups to emerge in the South- as well as the name of the President who destroyed them
KKK and Ulysses Grant
400
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
400
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war
What are railroads
400
The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
What is enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
400
The Civil War event that makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare
What are the Draft Riots in NYC
400
A large Federal Bureaucracy designed to rebuild the South and also to bring newly freed people "up to speed"
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
500
The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny can be linked to this belief - a continuity from colonial times
What is racial/cultural superiority
500
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
500
Three major events caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Bloody Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, and the formation of the Republican Party
500
The threefold purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war
500
Three pieces of evidence supporting the claim that Reconstruction was a time of conflict over new definitions of citizenship
What is the Slaughterhouse cases, Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, the Colfax massacre, the White League, the split in the Women's Rights movement, Hiram Revels