U.S. Mexican War
This encouraged Americans to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
He served as the president of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
The North and South disagreed over whether this institution should expand westward.
Slavery
These laws limited the rights of formerly enslaved people in the South
Black Codes
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin increased cotton production and unintentionally strengthened dependence on this labor system.
Slavery
The addition of this state helped spark the U.S.-Mexican War
Texas
This Union general accepted Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox
Ulysses S. Grant
This idea claimed states could ignore federal laws they disagreed with.
Nullification
What economic system kept the formerly enslaved in a debt.
Sharecropping
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel helped grow support for this movement.
The abolitionist movement
This territory gained by the U.S. after the U.S. Mexican War was called
The Mexican Cession
He led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
Robert E. Lee
This compromise admitted California as a free state and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
The Compromise of 1850
This amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime
The 13th Amendment
Hudson River School artists reflected the belief that the American landscape represented this national ideal.
The beauty and power of nature
One major effect of the U.S. Mexican War was increased debate over this issue in new territories.
Why was the North in a better position to win the Civil War
They had more resources
Supporters of nullification used this principle to argue states could reject federal laws.
States' rights theory
In Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court ruled Congress could not do this in US territories
Ban/prohibit slavery
Hudson River School artists often reacted against the effects of these two changes in American society.
Industrialization and urbanization
or westward expansion
President Polk claimed this river as the southern border of Texas, helping provoke war with Mexico.
The Rio Grande
William Carney and Philip Bazaar
Many Northerners reacted negatively to the Dred Scott decision because they believed the government had become this.
Pro-slavery
The Dred Scott decision strengthened sectional tensions because Northerners feared slavery would spread into these areas.
Western/free territories
Sarah E. Goode’s Folding Cabinet Bed was created in response to this urban problem.
Overcrowded/tiny living spaces