Going West
This idea stated that it was God's will for the US to conquer the entire continent of America, from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This act allowed slave catchers to come to free territory in order to catch escaped slaves and bring them back to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
John Brown is one example of this group whose ideas were increasing in popularity through the North prior to the Civil War.
What are abolitionists?
This amendment reversed Dred Scott and gave everyone born in the US rights to be citizenship and protection of the rights that come with citizenship.
What is the 14th amendment?
This was a reason some settlers moved West into California in the late 1840s.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This law made California a free state, banned the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and increased the strength of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This freed slaves in Confederate states in order to give the North more manpower for the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was the name of the an economic system in the South where African-American farmers used a portion of land in exchange for a portion of their crops, this system kept African-Americans from gaining real wealth.
What is sharecropping?
The purpose of this compromise was to maintain the balance of free and slave states in the Union. It also created the 30 36 parallel line that made territory above the line free and territory below the line became slave territory.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
This act was created in 1854 and allowed certain territories to vote on whether they wanted to be free or slave states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The secession of South Carolina that began the Civil War occurred after this event.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment forbade the states and the federal government to deny suffrage to any citizen on account of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
Americans came to this territory and eventually fought two independence wars with Mexico over it. In 1845, 10 years later it was annexed by the United States becoming a state.
What is Texas?
This party was created out of Northern Whigs, Northern Democrats and Free Soilers. It was established after the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was centered around anti-slavery ideas.
What is the Republican Party?
This amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War and officially made slavery illegal except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This organization focused on education for newly freed African Americans during Reconstruction in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau ?
This president, who largely believed in Manifest Destiny, oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date which included the annexation of Texas.
Who is James K Polk (1845-1849)?
This Abolitionist Senator got beaten with a cane by a fellow congressmen.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This general organized a March through the South where property and Southern infrastructure were destroyed.
Who is General Sherman?
These were used after the end of slavery to restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans in the South and forced them into other forms of servitude.
What are Black Codes?