Manifest Destiny & Mexican American War
One of the most famous battles for Texas' independence, Antonio López de Santa Anna laid a siege against around 200 Texan defenders who fought to the end.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
Continued immigration composed of mostly Irish and German Catholics led to the "Know-nothing Party" and a rise of hostility to immigrants known as this.
What is Nativism?
This compromise in 1854 using the concept of letting settlers vote on the status of slavery was promoted by Stephen Douglas, but failed to resolve tensions over slavery in new territories and led to "Bleeding Kansas"
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
The Anaconda Plan, part of the Union strategy devised by Winfield Scott, called to create this around Southern ports to cut off essential supplies from the Confederacy.
What is a blockade?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This president was known for their commitment to manifest destiny and the Democratic slogan of “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Who was James K. Polk
Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, admitted California as a free state, allowed for Popular Sovereignty in the Utah and New Mexico territories, enacted a strictly enforced new Fugitive Slave Law, and abolished the slave trade-but not slavery itself-in this place.
What is Washington, DC?
After Lincoln’s election, this was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860.
What is South Carolina?
This document issued by Lincoln after Antietam declared slaves in the Confederate states free and redefined the purpose of the war, from against secession to end slavery. This document however did not free slaves in the border states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These laws were passed in Southern states to restrict the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
Manifest Destiny was the term for American popular belief that America had a god-given right to expand Westward. The poem turned song "America the Beautiful" is predominantly known for this phrase.
What is "From sea to shining sea"
Proposed by Lewis Cass, a compromise solution that instead of Congress determining whether to allow slavery in a new western territory or state, the matter is determined by a vote of the people who settled a territory. This plan was originally known as this, and was later termed as Popular Sovereignty.
What was "Squatter Sovereignty"?
The idea of secession primarily originated from this South Carolina Senator.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
This 1863 battle was the turning point in the Civil War, ending Lee’s advance into the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This agency was created to help freed slaves with food, education, and jobs after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
In 1846, a Pennsylvania Congressman proposed this, which called for an appropriations bill to be amended to forbid slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" revealed the inhumanity of slavery to many Northerners and was published in this year.
What is 1852?
This party split over the issue of slavery in 1860, helping Lincoln win the presidency.
What is the Democratic Party?
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s "March to the Sea" was an example of this which undercut civilian support for war.
What is total war?
This notorious white-supremacy, black-terrorist group was formed in this state.
What is Tennessee?
The Mexican War was due to a prior dispute over the Texan border. President Polk insisted that the border was the Rio Grande. The Mexican government asserted that the border was this.
What is the Nueces River?
This senator violently caned Republican Senator Charles Sumner for insulting his uncle Andrew Butler in his speech "The Crime Against Kansas"
Who is Preston Brooks?
This failed 1860 proposal tried to protect slavery in the Constitution to avoid secession.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
After the attack on Fort Sumter, Lincoln authorized spending for a war and suspended the privilege of the writ of this. Which is the right to be brought before a court to determine whether their detention is lawful.
What is Habeas corpus?
This legislation banned racial discrimination in public places & guaranteed equal access to public services regardless of race.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?