Manifest Destiny
He wanted to settle the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain, acquire California, and incorporate Texas into union.
Who is James K. Polk?
A fungus-like organism spread rapidly throughout Ireland, its the potato was killed and it caused the first mass migration of Irish people to the United States.
What was the Irish Potato Famine?
A thirty-four-hour bombardment that caused President Lincoln to issue a call for seventy-five thousand militiamen.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
Declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but did not affect slavery in nonrebelling Border States. Closed the door on possible compromise with the South and encouraged thousands of Southern slaves to flee to Union lines.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
What are Carpetbaggers?
Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
Born in Jalapa, Veracruz, enters the army at a young age and achieves various military successes. Becomes General to lead the army.
Who is Santa Anna?
Name given to Northern Democrats who obstructed the war effort by attacking Abraham Lincoln, the draft, and, after 1863, emancipation of the slaves.
What are Copperheads?
Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Supporter of the Union; became nation's first African American senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
Agreement between the US and the new Mexican government for Mexico to cede California and New Mexico to the US and acknowledge the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The last battle of the Mexican-American War
What is the Battle of Mexico City?
Fought over twelve hours on September 17, 1862, and proved to be the bloodiest single day of battle of the Civil War. Had some 22,000 casualties among the Confederate and Union forces, it essentially ended in a draw. However, the outcome demonstrated the prowess of the Union army, forestalling foreign intervention and giving Lincoln the "victory" he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
An informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it a Republican was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Dispute over whether any Mexican territory that America won during the Mexican War should be free an amendment was introduced stating that any territory acquired from Mexico would be free. This amendment passed the House twice, but failed to pass in the Senate. A symbol of how intense dispute over slavery was in the U.S.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
British-built and manned Confederate warship that raided Union shipping during the Civil War. One of many built by the British for the Confederacy, despite Union protests.
What is the Alabama?
Provided food, shelter, and medical aid. It first resettled blacks on confiscated Southern farmlands, but this was stopped when the Confederates got pardoned under Johnson. Opened many schools including colleges and taught many how to read.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Presidential pardons would be given to southerners who took an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the emancipation of slaves. When 10% of the voters had taken the oath, the state government could be reestablished and recognized. Criticized for being too lenient by the Radical Republicans.
What is the 10 Percent Plan?
Measures introduced by Illinois congressman Lincoln, questioning President James K. Polk’s justification for war with Mexico. Requested that the president clarify precisely where Mexican forces had attacked American troops.
What are the Spot Resolutions?
Admitted California to the United States as a “free” state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Part of the Compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act, which proved highly unpopular in the North.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Stephen Douglas's response to Abraham Lincoln about whether he was for popular sovereignty as he had fought for, or the Dred Scott decision which canceled out the idea of popular sovereignty. His response was that the Dred Scott case holds true, but if the people in the state choose to make legislature against slavery, popular sovereignty works.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
Citizenship cannot be taken from anyone unless someone gives it up or commits perjury during the naturalization process.
"nor shall any State ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
Those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1866 or 1867, and their lineal descendants, would be exempt from recently enacted educational, property, or tax requirements for voting.
What is the Grandfather clause?