Presidential power to detain prisoners without proper cause or legal charges.
What is Heabas Corpus
100
It gave United States the states of Arizona, California and New Mexico
What is the Treaty of Hidalgo
100
created controversy over new territories and expansion of slavery
What is Manifest Destiny
100
A woman who formed Union of nurses
What is Clara Barton
100
to grant African Americans voting rights
What is the 15th Amendment
200
"The government is a union of people and not of states"
What is Abraham Lincoln
200
called for the abolition of slavery in territories won from Mexico
What is Wilmot Proviso
200
an escaped slave who led a violent slave revolt
What is Nat Turner
200
Food shortage due to occupation of farmland led women and children to raid bakeries for bread.
What is the Confederate South
200
its policies in the South supported African Americans and followed harsh policies against the Southerners.
What is the Radical Republican party
300
A. Increasing sectionalism
B. Disagreements over states’ rights issues
C. Breakdown of compromise
D. Election of 1860
were the causes behind.....
What is Secession of Southern States from the Union
300
An immediate result of the Compromise of 1850 was the
What is admission of California as a free state
300
Abolition of slavery in territories won from Mexico
What is Wilmot Proviso
300
Created a program called Sanitary Commission
What is women at North during the Civil War
300
To end the conflicts between western settlers and Indians over the land, the government placed the Natives in
What is RESERVATION AND FORCED THEM TO ADOPT THE LIFESTYLE OF WHITE MEN
400
Southern States seceded from the Union 1860
What is Lincoln's wining the presidential election of 1860
400
called for the fate of slavery to be decided by Popular Sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
Before the Civil War, slavery expanded in the South rather than in the North because
What is geographic condition that encouraged the development of plantations
400
Once 10% of the state’s voters swore loyalty to the U.S….and they ended slaver they can join the union.
What is Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan
400
U.S. government encouraged settlements in the western frontier by passing the
What is Homestead Act
500
"By the 1850’s, the Constitution, originally framed as an instrument of national unity, had become a source of sectional discord."
This quotation suggests that vast differences of opinion existed over the issue of
What is States Rights
500
Sectional differences developed in the United States largely because
What is economic conditions and interests in each region varied
500
SUPREME COURT CASE WHERE THE RULING WAS THAT CONGRESS CANNOT BAN SLAVERY IN THE NEW TERRITORY.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
500
Congress repealed it in 1862 in regard to African Americans.
What is A Federal Law that did not allow Blacks to enlist in the American Army
500
used to justify the formation of business monopolies. This theory was consisted with Laissez-faire economics