Manifest Destiny & Expansion
This term described the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1850 legislative package admitted California as a free state and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This battle, fought in July 1863 in Pennsylvania, is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This term described Southern white Republicans who supported Reconstruction.
What are Scalawags?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War, granting the U.S. the Mexican Cession for $15 million.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe fueled abolitionist sentiment in the North.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This 1862 executive order freed slaves specifically in states in rebellion against the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This agency was created in 1865 to assist former slaves and poor whites with food, education, and labor contracts.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This system of agriculture replaced slavery in the South, often locking farmers into a cycle of debt.
What is Sharecropping?
This 1846 treaty with Great Britain divided the Oregon Territory at the 49th parallel.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
This 1854 act, proposed by Stephen Douglas, allowed for popular sovereignty in territories, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the primary economic advantage of the Union over the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What is Industrial Capacity (or larger population/railroad network)?
These laws were passed by Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the freedom of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This Amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This proposed (but failed) legislation would have banned slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling declared that enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
This strategy, designed by Winfield Scott, aimed to strangle the Confederacy through a naval blockade and controlling the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This 1867 legislation divided the South into five military districts and set requirements for readmission to the Union.
What is the Reconstruction Act?
This terrorist organization was formed during Reconstruction to intimidate black voters and restore white supremacy.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1853 acquisition of land from Mexico was intended for a southern transcontinental railroad route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This term described the violence between proslavery and antislavery settlers in a new territory in the mid-1850s.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This 1864 campaign led by William T. Sherman was designed to destroy the South's infrastructure and morale.
What is the March to the Sea?
This 1877 agreement settled the disputed 1876 presidential election and ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This Amendment prohibited voting discrimination based on race, though it was later bypassed by Southern states.
What is the 15th Amendment?