Manifest Destiny & Acquisitions
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson debated the constitutionality of this territorial acquisition.
The Louisiana Purchase
The debate over all new territories acquired between 1803 and 1850 focused primarily on the expansion of this issue.
Slavery
This was the main goal of Harriet Beecher Stowe in writing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
To increase American objection to slavery (or, expose its immorality).
When the Civil War began, this was Abraham Lincoln's primary main goal.
To preserve the Union
In the decade following the Civil War, the majority of freedmen entered into this type of economic arrangement (it led to cycles of poverty and debt).
Sharecropping
This phrase describes the belief that the U.S. had a God-given right to expand westward across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
This major principle, featured in the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowed settlers to vote on the issue of slavery in their territory.
Popular Sovereignty
This person's supreme court challenge led to the principle that national legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott
This was the most significant advantage held by the Union over the Confederacy (other than population).
Industry (or transportation/communication).
This terrorist group's rise, dedicated to maintaining white supremacy, is a key piece of evidence for the failure of Reconstruction.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This territory was an independent republic for nearly ten years because of Northern concerns about adding a new slave state.
Texas (Annexation)
This provision of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the MOST controversy in the 1850s, especially in the North.
The strict Fugitive Slave Law
This radical abolitionist led a violent raid on Harpers Ferry and impacted Bleeding Kansas.
John Brown
Issued in 1863, this suggested that the war now had the further meaning of offering enslaved Black Americans new opportunities for freedom.
The Emancipation Proclamation
What Congressional action (or lack thereof) most directly contributed to the end of Reconstruction in 1877?
The waning (declining) commitment to reform in the North (or the withdrawal of federal troops).
The acquisition of this territory following a war with a foreign country reignited the slavery debate and led to the Civil War.
The Mexican Cession
This 1854 act effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise by applying popular sovereignty to the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The results of this event, where the vote was completely along sectional lines, led directly to the first wave of secession.
The Election of 1860
Name one of the Border States that were slave states but remained loyal to the Union during the war.
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, or Missouri
The post-war amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) successfully established constitutional changes, but Reconstruction ultimately failed to bring about lasting change due to violence and the lack of what key type of reform?
Economic reform
Lincoln's suspension of this civil liberty during the Civil War demonstrated an expansion of presidential war powers.
habeas corpus
True or False: In the lead up to the Civil War, many poor Southern Whites resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery.
False