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Westward Expansion
North V.S. South
Compromises
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Reconstruction
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The prevailing belief that Anglo-Saxon American were destined to expand in order to bring its civilization and institution all across the land of America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
It is a secret system the National Antislavery Society organized in 1834, which combined efforts of both white and black abolitionists to aid some 100,000 enslaved persons to find their way to freedom.
What is Underground Railroad?
100
Lewis Cass proposed this as a new solution to settle slavery issues in the New territories gained from Mexican-American War. It left to the people the decision on weather to practice slavery within the states by popular voting.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
100
A proclamation issued by Lincoln as a way to broaden the goals of the war and achieve a moral victory, but through its principles it freed absolutely no slaves on the day it was given; changed the purpose of the war and caused Europeans to withdraw from supporting south.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
100
An amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, Formally abolishing slavery in the United States. It was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.
What is 13th Amendment?
200
The discovery of a precious metal nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the this. It inspired the settlement in the West Coast of America, attracting people traveled over seas and land.
What is Gold Rush?
200
As a novel, it allowed its readers in the north to become acutely aware of the horrors of slavery on a far more personal level than ever before. However, it furthered sectionalism and was a noticeable spark of the Civil War as President Lincoln commented.
What is the effect of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
They were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. One was enacted in 1793. The other in 1850 ,as a part of the Compromise of 1850, added further provisions regarding runaways and levied even harsher punishments for interfering in their capture.
What is Fugitive Slave Law?
200
where the first shots of the civil war were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
It declared "All persons" were citizens of the U.S.; prohibited the states from violating the privileges and immunities of citizens of the U.S. or denying to anyone the equal protection of the laws; did not directly extend the right to vote, but rather attempted to entice the states to give the vote to blacks
What is 14th Amendment?
300
Act, passed in 1862, encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
What is Homestead Act?
300
It was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface. The show depicted African Americans as lazy, sensual, and irresponsible.
What is the Minstrel Show?
300
It was issued on August 8th, 1846 by David W., as an amendment to President James K. Polk's appropriation bill for the funding of newly acquired territories from Mexico. It prohibited the expansion of slavery into any territory acquired by the United States. While it didn't become law, it sharply divided the Democratic Party and the nation over the issue of slavery.
What are Wilmot Proviso?
300
A war Fought in 1862, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, the battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with over 23,000 casualties.
What is Antietam?
300
An unwritten deal that settled the 1876 presidential election contest between Rutherford Hayes (Rep) and Samuel Tilden (Dem.) Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange for the permanent removal of federal troops from the South. This marked the end of Reconstruction.
What did Compromise of 1877 settle?
400
It is a purchase or a treaty,between the United States and Mexico, in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico.This Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad.
What is Gadsden Purchase?
400
He served as longtime South Carolina senator, U.S. secretary of war, vice president and briefly as secretary of state. As a southerner, he spoke for the slave-plantation system of the antebellum South. He opposed the admission of California as a free state.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
400
Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American War were resolved in this compromise. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves.
What did the Compromise of 1850 achieve?
400
It is the Battle occurring in 1863 often seen as the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
400
first African-American senator, elected in 1870 to the Mississippi seat previously occupied by Jefferson Davis. He worked as a minister throughout the South before entering politics. After serving for just one year, he returned to Mississippi to head a college for African American males.
Who is Hiram Revels?
500
The acts were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" (the "Pacific Railroad") in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies.
What is Pacific Railway Act?
500
A failed attempt to capture the U.S. military arsenal in October 1859, led by John Brown. The raid was intended to be to help establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves. Brown was captured and later hanged. But the raid increased the mounting tension between Northern and Southern states before the American Civil War.
What is Harper's Ferry?
500
A case brought before the court by a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. He claimed to be free for this reason. Yet the supreme Court ruled against it. This decision angered abolitionists and heightened North-South tensions.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500
Where nearby General Lee surrendered his remaining troops to General Grant at the McLean House on the afternoon of April 9, finally ending four years of bloody sectional conflict.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
A federal law in force from 1867 to 1887 passed to secure Radical Republicans on the high position of government; also is the legislative basis of the congressional impeachment of Andrew Jackson.
What is Tenure of Office Act?