Antebellum America
Name of the treaty that ended the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The concept that if the number of slave and free states were equal, slavery would continue to be compromised over.
What is the balance of power?
What are border states?
Daily Double! Two effects of the 15th Amendment
What is
Black leaders elected into office
Violence/intimidation at polls
Poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.
What are border states?
Daily Double! Describe TWO parts of the Monroe Doctrine
What is:
- No new European colonies in the Americas
- Attacks on newly independent countries are considered an attack on the US
- No alliance with Great Britian
This set of laws resulted when California applied to join the Union as a free state, permanently upsetting the balance of power
What is the Compromise of 1850?
An example of a total war campaign, waged from Atlanta to Savannah in Georgia
What is Sherman's March to the Sea
These series of laws attempted to reestablish the conditions of slavery, passed by state legislatures during Presidential Reconstruction.
What are Black Codes?
Purpose or goal of the "Lowell Experiment"
What is (must have one)
attract single, young women to work in mills?
avoid a permanent, impoverished, industrial working class?
The name for the territory the United States took as a result of the Mexican American War
What is the Mexican Cession?
Location of the surrender of General Robert E Lee, this signaled the end of the Civil War
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
People who traveled to the South to help in Reconstruction; many Southerners criticized them
What are carpetbaggers?
SCOTUS case that protected birthright citizenship case for Americans of Chinese descent
What was US v. Wong Kim Ark?
The religious revival that was one cause of Antebellum Reform.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Name of the Senator who was beat over the head with a cane over a speech called "The Crime of Kansas"
Who is Charles Sumner?
Who is Stand Waite?
Name of Southern women's organizations that helped to honor the Confederate dead and spread the 'Lost Cause' narrative
What are the Ladies' Memorial Associations?
The specific result (vote) of Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial.
What is not guilty by one vote?
Name the concept: "For this blessed mission to the nations of the world, which are shut out from the life-giving light of truth, has America been chosen; and her high example shall smite unto death the tyranny of kings, hierarchs, and oligarchs, and carry the glad tidings of peace and good will where myriads now endure an existence scarcely more enviable than that of beasts of the field. Who, then, can doubt that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity?"
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is the Republican Party and the Free Soil Party?
Name that document:
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1861. Fear seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by my election, their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such fear.
What is Lincoln's First Inaugural Address?
Organizers of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, had racist tactics and rejected the 15th Amendment. Need TWO names.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton AND Susan B Anthony?
The plan by women to claim the 14th Amendment to vote, get arrested, and challenge restrictive suffrage laws in court.
What is the New Departure?