Nationalism & Sectionalism
This invention ended up expanding slavery in the American South
What is the Cotton Gin?
The belief that the U.S. borders should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Considered one of the most important Revolutions in human history in which machinery replaced organic labor
What is the industrial revolution?
This military strategy was issued to free the slaves held in Confederate territory and deter Europe from interfering
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Considered one of the most ineffective Presidents for refusing the carry out the Reconstruction Act
This statement asserted the interests of the U.S. by defying the interests of other countries (in Europe)
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The first President of the Republic of Texas
Who is Samuel Houston?
This Massachusetts town became the center of textile production
What is Lowell, MA?
The belief that settlers in a territory get to vote on whether to legalize slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Civil War General who served as President throughout the era of Reconstruction
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This agreement in Congress set a permanent dividing line for the allowance of slavery
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Mexican General who laid siege to the garrison at the Alamo
Who is Santa Anna?
An influx of these immigrants were known as strike breakers because they were willing to work for less
What are the Irish?
This statesmen vehemently opposed any compromise on slavery and was therefore not chosen to be the Republican nominee
Who is William Seward?
This Amendment granted citizenship to the formally enslaved and equal protection under the law
What is the 14th Amendment?
This policy removed Native Americans from their land and replaced them with white settlers (and their slaves)
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A large influx of these immigrants came to the West Coast after the discovery of Gold in California
Who are the Chinese?
This landmark meeting in upstate New York called for universal suffrage
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
A notorious camp where thousands of Union Soldiers died of disease
What is the Andersonville Prison Camp?
Founded by a band of former Confederates, this group would terrorize Black communities throughout the South
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
meaning "friendship" this Ship endured a slave revolt and became a symbol for abolition in the 1840s
What is "La Amistad"?
This landmark battle inspired the U.S. Marine Corps Hymn and the creation of the Ninos Heros memorial in Mexico City
What is the Battle of Chapultepec?
Regardless of having children, the Government has argued the importance of these institutions
What are tax-funded public schools?
This abolitionist believed that he heard voices from God to end slavery by any means necessary
Who is John Brown?
Despite not being passed, this proposal would have given substaintial reparations to the formally enslaved
What is Forty Acres and a Mule?