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
This attempted to eliminate slavery in the newly acquired territory from Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
200
This party developed around opposition to the spread of slavery into the territories
Free Soil Party
200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
200
The primary benefit of the North prior to the outbreak of the war
Industrial Development
200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
300
This belief was commonly developed against immigrants
What is nativism
300
This agreement temporarily postponed tensions between the South and the North by admitting California as a free state and enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law
What is the Compromise of 1850?
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
The causation of the sharecropping system in the South (causes and effect)
What is need for workers and need for land resulting in economic dependency
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
Created a line at the 36'30 parallel in the Lousiana Territory with the North being free and the South being slave admissions
What is the Missouri Compromise
400
This event ended the Civil War
The surrender at Appomottax Court House
400
The underlying political question that plagued all laws and decisions leading up to the Civil War - and how it was resolved by both the war and then by the end of Reconstruction
What is federal v state power
war = federal over state
end of Reconstruction = state over federal
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
This led to Washington re-discussing the Missouri Compromise
Acquired territory from Mexico
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
This event is seen as the formal ending of the Reconstruction