social structure
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
Who invented the steamboat
Robert Fulton
This political group was against the expansion of slavery on economic grounds. They did not care about morals
Free Soil Movement
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
What Act forced Natives to travel hundreds of miles by foot because they were forced to leave their lands by the Mississippi and go to present day Oklahoma
The Indian Removal Act
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
What event caused thousands of Americans and immigrants to travel westward to California
The Discovery of the California Gold Rush
This man defended slavery as a political right to the states. He said that slavery is a "necessary evil"
John C Calhoun
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law. This gave any US citizen 160 acres of farmland in the West.
What is the Homestead Act
Why did a large groups of people migrate to California.
The gold rush.
What became the souths main source of economics after the North won the war and abolished slavery
What is sharecropping
What did the norths economy mostly rely on to import and export their goods
Railroads
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
American empresario who brought settlers to Texas and aided in the eventual Texas revolution
Who is Stephen F. Austin
160 free acres of land.
what is the first women's right convention that launched the women's suffrage movement
Seneca Falls Convention
Which part of America experienced great inflation after the Civil war.
The south with a inflation rate of 9000%.
The threefold purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war
Whigs in the Senate rejected this treaty, which effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Who painted the famous picture of Manifest Destiny which was finally completed in this time period.
John Gast.
The leader of the Seneca Falls Convention.
Elizabeth Candy Stanton
What year was the first income tax established
1862
Who created the "No Nothing Party and signed the fugitive slave act into place
Millard Fillmore
What is the full name of the leader of the Mexicans in the Mexican American War.
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
What part of America disliked the Homestead Act?
The Southern States