Westward Expansion
What was the idea which asserted U.S. power in the Western Hemisphere and supported U.S. expansion westward, which was built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority, and helped to shape the era’s political debates?
What is manifest destiny
The institution of slavery and its attendant ideological debates, along with regional economic and demographic changes, territorial expansion in the 1840s and 1850s, and cultural differences between the North and the South, all intensified what?
What is sectionalism
Lincoln’s decision to issue the blank changed the purpose of the war, enabling many African Americans to fight in the Union Army, and helping prevent the Confederacy from gaining full diplomatic support from European powers.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation
The acquisition of new territory in the West and the U.S. victory in this war was accompanied by a heated controversy over allowing or forbidding slavery in newly acquired territories.
What is the Mexican-American War
These people, although a minority in the North, mounted a highly visible campaign against slavery, adopting strategies of resistance ranging from fierce arguments against the institution and assistance in helping slaves escape to a willingness to use violence to achieve their goals.
Who were abolitionists
What Amendment abolished slavery, bringing about the war’s most dramatic social and economic change, but the exploitative and soil-intensive sharecropping system endured for several generations.
What was the 13th Amendment
What was the movement that was strongly anti-Catholic and aimed at limiting immigrants’ cultural influence and political and economic power? Hint: Substantial numbers of new international migrants — who often lived in ethnic communities and retained their religion, language, and customs — entered the country prior to the Civil War, giving rise to this major, often violent movement.
What is a nativist movement
National leaders made a variety of proposals to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories, including these three compromises/acts/decisions but ultimately failed to reduce sectional conflict.
What were the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, and the Dred Scott decision (1857)
This group/party's efforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture and establish a base for their party in the South ultimately failed, due both to determined southern resistance and to the North’s waning resolve.
Who were Radical Republicans
As the territorial boundaries of the United States expanded and the migrant population increased, U.S. government interaction and conflict with Hispanics and American Indians increased, altering these groups’ cultures and ways of life and raising questions about their status and legal rights. Give the names of both a massacre that occurred and a battle that occurred that affected Native Americans
What is Sand Creek Massacre and Battle of Little Big Horn
The second-party system ended when the issues of slavery and anti-immigrant nativism weakened loyalties to the two major parties and fostered the emergence of sectional parties, most notably which party in the North and the Midwest.
What was the Republican Party
The constitutional changes of what period embodied a Northern idea of American identity and national purpose and led to conflicts over new definitions of citizenship, particularly regarding the rights of African Americans, women, and other minorities.
What is the Reconstruction period
Asian, African American, and white peoples sought new economic opportunities or religious refuge in the West, efforts that were boosted during and after the Civil War with the passage of new legislation promoting national economic development. List three examples of events that occurred because of these immigrants. Bonus points if you can give dates.
What is Mormon settlements in Utah (1847), California gold rush (1849), Chinese immigration, Pike’s Peak gold rush (1858-1861), or Homestead Act (1862)
Lincoln’s election on what platform in the election of 1860 led various Southern leaders to conclude that their states must secede from the Union, precipitating civil war.
what was the free soil platform
Although citizenship, equal protection of the laws, and voting rights were granted to African Americans in which amendments, where these rights were progressively stripped away through segregation, violence, Supreme Court decisions, and local political tactics.
What is the 14th and 15th Amendments