Antebellum-Reconstruction
The idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
What is manifest Destiny?
This reform organization was formed in Boston in 1826 to address the problems of alcohol.
What is the American Temperance Society?
President during the Civil War
What is Abraham Lincoln?
Granted citizenship to all blacks.
What is 14th Amendment
(1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
Expansion of the marketplace in the 1800s throughout early america that brought distance communities together and created a national, specialized, and interdependent economy.
What is the market revolution?
Santa Anna sends troops to Texas to stop the rebelling Americans. Mexicans won the Battle of ...
Alamo
Opening engagement of the Civil War. It was bombed by confederate soldiers for two days until Union troops surrendered.
What is Fort Sumter
What was the purpose of the black codes?
to restrict freedom of black laborers
Conscription Act of 1863 caused the draft riots in NY. (T OR F)
True
lasted from 1846-1848, this was caused by Mexico firing on American troops along the Rio Grande. Mexico did not want to sell Polk California and New Mexico.
What was Mexican-American War?
The movement concentrated on ending slavery in the United States
What is Abolitionist Movement?
Compromise of 1850s,Bleeding Kansas, Dred- Scott case, John Brown's raid, Election of 1860s
Impending crisis
What was the agreement called that most historians mark as the end of Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
Forced march of Native Americans from the southeastern US to the West
What is the Trail of Tears?
Slaves in rebelling states were made free; the North was now fighting with purpose (war to free the slaves); slaves in border states were not freed (until the 13 the Amendment)
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was a black abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves. wrote pamphlet on black pride. he wrote the "appeal to the colored citizens of the world." it called for a bloody end to white supremacy. he believed that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt.
Who is David Walker?
What were confederates advantages over the Union?
-Union:
-Often lacked familiarity of land, most wars fought in south
-Confederacy: Better military leaders
-Knew land well/fighting to defeat homeland
As a result of the executive branch’s response to the Reconstruction Act, Civil Rights Act, and Tenure of Office Act, what major legislative action happened?
Johnson impeachment by the House
Supreme Court decision said that slaves were property and did not have rights
What is the Dred Scott case (1857)?
Polk's campaign slogan regarding Oregon
What was 54 -40 or fight?
The ideal woman was seen as a tender, self-sacrificing caregiver who provided a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband, social customs that restricted women to caring for the house
What is Cult of Domesticity?
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln
What was the major cause of the 1873 economic depression?
commercial over expansion (speculative investing in railroads)
White Supremacy groups such as the...... form to blockade Congressional efforts during Reconstruction
Use lynching to terrorize blacks
Ku Klux Klan