Westward Expansion
The belief that the U.S. had a divine mission to extend its power and civilization across the whole of North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
The compromise that allowed California to become a free state and established the idea of popular sovereignty for other territories
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This "railroad" was actually a loose network of activists that included "stations" in Greensboro, NC.
What is the Underground Railroad?
An attack on this Union fort in April 1861 were the first shots of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This Constitutional amendment ended slavery in the U.S. except as punishment for a crime
What is the 13th Amendment?
This president vetoed 29 bills during his one term including a civil rights bill that he said discriminated against whites.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
A disagreement over this led to a firefight between U.S. and Mexican troops and the Mexican-American War.
What is the border of Texas?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel that moved a generation of Northerners and brought home the realities of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This speech by Lincoln, though criticized at the time, memorably connected the Civil War to the founding principles of America.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This inherently unfair arrangement replaced slavery for agricultural labor in the South and led to conditions not unlike enslavement for African Americans and poor whites.
What is sharecropping?
This president suspended the Constitutional right of habeas corpus (right to being informed of the charges against them) in border states.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The U.S. took possession of these future states under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What are California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah?
This act, passed in 1854, allowed settlers in territories that were part of the Louisiana Purchase to vote on slavery in their territory.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The name for the territory where, following the Kansas-Nebraska Act, conflict between proslavery and antislavery groups broke out as groups fought for control
What is "bleeding Kansas"?
A campaign of deliberate destruction of resources across Georgia, and South Carolina that could be used by the Confederacy to continue the war.
What was Sherman's March to the Sea?
This Constitutional Amendment caused conflict in women's rights groups who wanted to see it include rights for women.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Passed over President Johnson's veto, these acts divided the former Confederate states into military districts and put them under the control of the military
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
Congressman Davide Wilmot proposed an amendment to forbid the expansion of this into any territory acquired during the Mexican-American War
What is slavery?
A new political party founded in 1848 by Northern Democrats and Whigs who believed slavery should be excluded from the Mexican Cession
What is the Free-Soil Party?
Considered one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever, this case effectively opened all of America to the expansion of slavery.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This proclamation changed the goals of the Civil War for the Union from simply keeping the Union together to ending slavery in the entire U.S.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This former Confederate general was the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan, which used violence to intimidate African Americans
Who was Nathan Bedford Forest?
In 1868, President Johnson became the first president to be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors" for firing this cabinet member.
Who was the Secretary of War?
The Democratic slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight?" is a reference to this dispute.
What is the northern boundary of Oregon?
This Illinois Senator, known as "the little giant" was responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act and debated Abraham Lincoln making Lincoln a national name.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
This Massachusetts senator was attacked and beaten with a cane in the Senate by another senator over his remarks about Senator Andrew Butler.
Who is Charles Sumner?
His last statement before being hanged for leading a raid at Harper's Ferry was "I... am now quite certain that the crimes of the guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."
Who is John Brown?
Who was Hiram Revels?
Multiple corruption scandals rocked this president's two terms. While he never profited, his loyalty to dishonest men tarnished his reputation.
Who was President Ulysses S. Grant?