Manifest Destiny
The term "Manifest Destiny" was coined by this New York newspaper columnist.
Who is John L. O'Sullivan?
The term denotes loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
What is Sectionalism?
The first engagement of the Civil War that began with the Confederacy firing on what fort held by the Union in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
What is South Carolina?
This bill was created by Radical Republicans in Congress in response to Lincoln's 10% plan and advocated that at least 50% of Southerns pledge loyalty to the Union before readmission.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This territory was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, however it was it own independent nation for 9 years after winning its independence from Mexico.
What is Texas?
This proposal by Henry Clay admitted California to the Union as a free state, established popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah territories, and enacted the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This Confederate strategy included using their #1 cash crop as leverage to get Great Britain to ally themselves with the Confederacy.
What is King Cotton Diplomacy?
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be elected as a member of this political party that was against the expansion of slavery into western territories.
What is the Republican Party?
A legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
What is sharecropping?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended this conflict and led to the American acquisition of the Mexican Cession, most of what is modern day Southwestern USA.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The passage of this legislation effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise and led to mass violence in an event known as "Bleeding Kansas" & also the Caning of Charles Sumner.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Union strategy to blockade the Atlantic coast and seize the Mississippi River to cut off Confederate supply lines.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This executive action by Abraham Lincoln freed all enslaved people in "states in rebellion", however the status of enslavement for those in border states remained unchanged.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
Due to his consistent opposition to Reconstruction and his violation of the Tenure of Office Act he became the first American president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This U.S. president advocated for the annexation of Texas and Oregon and is often referred to as the Manifest Destiny president.
Who is James K. Polk?
This person led unsuccessful raid on the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA in attempted to start an uprising of the enslaved.
Who is John Brown?
This scorched earth campaign through Georgia was led by Union general William T. Sherman in an effort to destroy Confederate infrastructure and morale.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Lincoln delivered one of his most memorable speeches at the dedication of a cemetary on the grounds of this battle that was the turning point of the Civil War for the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This transaction $10 million dollar transaction between the U.S. and Mexico led to U.S. acquiring a small strip of land in the Southwest to build a southern railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This man was the plaintiff in this Supreme Court case that ruled that Black people did not have the right to sue because they were seen as property, not citizens.
Who is Dred Scott?
The site where Confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House, VA?
This actor and Southern sympathizer assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theater only a few days after the Confederates surrendered to the Union.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This political agreement between Republicans and Democrats that gave Rutherford Hayes the presidency in exchange for the federal government removing troops from the South, bringing an end to Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?