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The largest land expansion in American history, dealt between Jefferson and Napoleon in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The popular belief among Americans in the nineteenth century that God had promised the U.S. all land up to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The document containing the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment to the constitution granted citizenship to all citizens born on U.S. soil.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Famous conductor of the underground railroad that led dozens of families and individuals from the South to Canada, who herself was an escaped slave. On June 1 and 2 of 1863, she led 150 black Union soldiers in a raid on the Combahee River in South Carolina to successfully free 750 slaves.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The violent conflict caused by an act that allowed slavery to be determined by popular sovereignty in two Great Plains territories.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The idealized farmer of Jeffersonian Democracy that is independent, land owning, and relies on family labor.
What is the yeoman farmer?
The treaty that ended the Mexican American War (1846-1848), ceded most of the American West to the U.S., and gave Mexicans that pledged loyalty to the U.S. citizenship.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This monumental supreme court case established the principle of judicial review, allowing courts to challenge the constitutionality of federal laws.
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
The Union general who's "March to the Sea" in 1864 embodied the principle of "total war," and solidified his place as a villain in southern mythical memory.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
The name referring specifically to Cherokee expulsion to Oklahoma in 1838, but used as shorthand for all Five Tribes removal from 1830-1850.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The mythicization of the confederacy following the Civil War, which emphasized the heroism of its generals, the nobility of its beliefs, and the tragedy of its destruction.
What is the "Lost Cause"?
The fictional book that exposed the horrors of slavery to white readers, following the life of a slave sold "down the river." Also the second best selling book in the nineteenth century behind the bible.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This infamous clause allowed southern slave owners more sway in the federal government, by counting disenfranchised slaves in the population of states.
What is the three-fifths Clause?
Perhaps the most radical abolitionist of his time, this man used violence for the cause in Kansas in 1856, and Harper's Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
An, early, boozy rebellion in Pennsylvania in 1794, which was a test of federal authority to tax domestic goods. Immediately quashed with federal troops by George Washington.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The ideology that opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories, but was not entirely committed to anti-slavery—it sought to protect white men from the "slave power" in the South, not black people. However, many eventual anti-slavery politicians such as Lincoln and Salmon P. Chase were members of the Free Soil Party.
The emancipation proclamation, which went into effect on January 1, 1863, only targeted slaves in states under this designation.
What are states in rebellion?
The 1857 supreme court case that declared abolition illegal, and determined that African-Americans could not become citizens enjoy the rights and privileges of the American Constitution.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
The prolific writer, "proto-feminist," and wife of the paranoid second president of the U.S., who reminded her husband to "remember the ladies" in 1776.
Who is Abigail Adams?
The Civil War battle that was the deadliest one day battle in American History, and also enabled Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam
The philosophy of government that gave states and the federal government equal amounts of power.
What is federalism?
John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton authored this set of essays under the pseudonym "Publius," arguing for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Federalist Papers?
The Compromise of 1850 was comprised of these five components, which further incensed the nation, driving the U.S. towards civil war. (get 4/5)
What are the Fugitive Slave Act, popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah, the end of the slave trade in Washington D.C., admitting California as a free state, and settling the border of Texas.
The legislator (1843-1859), vice president of the confederacy (1861-1865), and governor of Georgia (1882-1883), who adamantly argued in 1861 that white supremacy was the cornerstone of the confederacy.
Who is Alexander Stephens?