Sectionalism and Slavery
This belief held that states had the authority to nullify federal laws they believed unconstitutional.
What is states’ rights?
The violent conflict in this territory showed that popular sovereignty would not peacefully resolve slavery disputes.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This policy allowed wealthy men to avoid military service, leading to accusations of unfairness.
What is draft substitution?
This document declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate-controlled areas only.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This belief held that Americans were destined to expand westward across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This proposal attempted to ban slavery in territories gained from Mexico but never passed Congress.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This antislavery novel increased Northern opposition to slavery and alarmed Southern slaveholders.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
These riots demonstrated class tensions in the North during the Civil War.
What are the New York City draft riots?
This abolitionist leader urged Black men to enlist in the Union Army as a path to citizenship.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This mid-19th century war added vast new territories to the United States.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This failed 1859 raid aimed to spark a slave uprising and terrified Southern whites.
What is John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry?
This Union strategy aimed to destroy Southern resources and morale.
What is total war?
This amendment permanently abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This 1848 event attracted thousands of people seeking quick wealth in the West.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This political compromise admitted California as a free state while strengthening slave-catching laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This political party collapsed in the 1850s largely because it could not agree on slavery’s expansion.
What is the Whig Party?
These soldiers were paid less by the Union Army eventhough they served in similar roles.
What is African American Soliders.
This amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This anti-immigrant political party targeted Catholics in the 1850s.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
This concept allowed settlers in a territory to vote on whether slavery would be legal there.
What is popular sovereignty?
This election convinced many Southern states that their interests could no longer be protected in the Union.
What is the election of 1860?
This famous 1863 speech redefined the war as a struggle for democracy and freedom.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This formerly enslaved woman served as a nurse, spy, and scout for the Union Army.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Large waves of Irish and German immigrants fueled fears of job competition.
What is nativism?