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
Name for 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 (name at least one)
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments did what?
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
Three prominent abolitionists
Who are Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Henry Highland Garnett, Lucretia Mott
300
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
300
The Northern victory that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg
300
The new system of labor for Southern agriculture developed during Reconstruction AND its effect on African-Americans
What is share-cropping and debt
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
The effect of the Tenure of Office Act
What is the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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 main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons
500
Major events caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act - name at least 2
What is bleeding Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, and the formation of the Republican Party
500
Lincoln's running mate in the 1864 election, his political party, and the reason for Lincoln's decision to run with him
Andrew Johnson; (War) Democrat; unity, especially in border states
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