The idea that it is the destiny of American to span from coast to coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
won the 1860 election by minority popular vote
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
gave full presidential pardons to confederates that took an oath of allegiance to the Union and acceptance of emancipation of slaves, required confederate states to rewrite the state constitution to eliminate the existence of slavery
What is the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction(1863)?
100
fighting that broke out between proslavery and antislavery groups and caused a north/south divide of the democratic party, as a result of the act that repealed the Missouri Compromise, the decision of Kansas as a free or slave state
What is Bleeding Kansas?
100
April 12, 1861, at Fort Sumter, led to seceding of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas to Confederacy
What is the start of the Civil War?
200
the purchase by President Pierce of the southernmost part of New Mexico and Arizona
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
200
Became president after the assassination of Lincoln following the 1864 election by John Wilkes Booth
Hint: he was impeached
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
provided a legal shield against black codes, and gave citizenship to African Americans
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
200
founded in Wisconsin in 1854, as a direct reaction to the passage of Kansas-Nebraska Act, wanted to stop the spread of slavery not eradicate it
What is Republican Party?
200
Lead Generals of the Confederacy and Union
Who are Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee?
300
admitted California as a free state, dived the remainder of the Mexican Cession into Utah and New Mexico with the decision of slavery based on popular sovereignty banned slave trade in District of Columbia, and adopted and enforced the new Fugitive Slave Law (tracking down and return of runaways slaves to south)
What is Compromise of 1850?
300
the Democrat winner of the 1852 Presidential election that resulted in "Bleeding Kansas" from the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is Franklin Pierce?
300
declared all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. were citizens, provided "equal protection of the laws" and "due process of law", disqualified confederate leaders from holding state and federal offices
What is the 14th amendment?
300
chief objective is to stop the expansion of slavery in the Mexican cession and free homesteads, "free soil, free labor, free men"
What is Free-soil Party?
300
said to have led to the Civil War, an attack on a federal arsenal in order to arm Virginia slaves with guns to rise in general revolt
What is John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry?
400
Mexico would recognize the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas and the U.S. got Cali and New Mexico (Mexican Cession). It was opposed by Whigs because they saw war as immoral effort to expand slavery and Southern Democrats wanted all of Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
barely won the 1848 election over Democrat Lewis Cass due to the formation of the Free-soil Party
Who is Zachary Taylor?
400
equal accommodations in public places and prohibited courts from excluded African Americans from juries
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
400
1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the conflict between a slave Tom and brutal white slave owner, moved a generation of Northerners to see all slave owners as monstrously cruel and inhuman also known as the book that made this great war
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
freed all enslaved person's (1% of slaves) in the states outside of the union, those then at war with the U.S. from Arkansas to Virginia
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
500
The drive for the annexation of Texas, the movement of American forces into Mexican territory, killing of an American army by Mexico are causes of what?
What are causes of the War with Mexico?
500
the protege of Andrew Jackson who favored the annexation of Texas, reoccupation of all of Oregon, the acquiring of California, with the slogan "fifty-four, forty or fight!"
Who is James K. Polk?
500
prohibited any state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th amendment?
500
the court case that Stephan Douglas was ridiculed for not doing enough to support during Lincoln-Douglas Debates, that established that African Americans were not intended to be U.S. Citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court, the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, and Congress could not deprive a person of property without due process
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
500
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime in U.S. or any place subject to their jurisdiction