Manifest Destiny & Expansion
Why did the Mormons migrate to the Utah Territory?
To escape persecution and practice their faith in peace after the murder of Joseph Smith.
What is popular soverignty?
notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery
Which amendment passed by Lincoln and Radical Republicans abolished slavery?
(1867) act placing Southern states under military rule and barring former supporters of the Confederacy from voting.
Reconstruction Act
What region of the country was known as the "Breadbasket" because it focused on growing grain and livestock to feed the growing cities of the Northeast.
The West
What major conflict did Manifest Destiny contribute to?
The Mexican-American War
1854, proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lincoln freed all slaves in areas still at war with the Union. Now focus of the war is to end slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
What amendment (1870) stated no American could be denied the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Fifteenth Amendment
(True or False) By 1850, the North and West were more closely linked to each other through railroads and canals than either was to the South.
True
What did the Homestead Act of 1862 offer?
160 acres of free land to any citizen who lived on and farmed the land for 5 years.
What political party split into Northern and Southern factions in 1860, virtually ensuring a Republican victory.
Democratic Party
Union general. "Butcher of Men"- used larger number of soldiers as his battle-winning strategy. Won the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
What 3 states reconstructed under the Ten Percent Plan
Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas
Match the economic characteristic to the correct region (North, South, or West):
1. South (Cotton)
2. West (Breadbasket)
3. North (Industrialization)
How did westward expansion affect American Indians?
It broke federal treaties and led to violent resistance and eventual displacement.
An 1850 law, part of a larger compromise, outraged Northerners by requiring them to assist in the capture of runaway slaves.
The Fugitive-Slave Act
What was the primary military and political significance of the Battle of Antietam?
It provided Abraham Lincoln the necessary "victory" to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
After slavery was abolished, the South's agricultural economy was in turmoil since there was its source of cheap labor was gone. Thus, planters turned to ____________ where the landlord provided the seed and other needed farm supplies in return for a share of the harvest. While this gave poor whites and black a chance to earn money, it also made them dependent on their landowners and/or in debt to merchants. Thus, _______ was very close to slavery and trapped generations of poor blacks.
Sharecropping
Which group was the primary target of the American Party (Know-Nothings) during the 1850s
Irish and German Catholic immigrants
What were the four practical reasons for westward expansion?
Natural resources, government policies, religious refuge, and expansion of trade.
What 1857 case, the Supreme Court ruled that Black people were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Victory for the North and one of the bloodiest battles of the war. Lee sought to attack in the North, possibly to defeat the Union on its own soil and demoralize its supporters. A turning point in the war in favor of the North.
Gettysburg
Which of the following was a primary reason for the formal end of Reconstruction in 1877?
A political compromise that settled the disputed 1876 presidential election.
What 1840s labor innovation, legally validated in the Massachusetts case Commonwealth v. Hunt, helped define Northern regional identity by declaring that labor unions were not illegal conspiracies.
Legalized Labor Unions