Westward Expansion
This was the belief that it was the duty of American culture to spread, and justified westward expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the most controversial provision of the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fututive Slave Act?
By attempting to resupply this fort, President Lincoln trigged southern aggression and the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Ft. Sumter?
Passage of this allowed freedmen to vote and gain political office during reconstruction.
What is the 15th amendment?
These were passed during and after Reconstrution to limit the economic and political opportunities of fomer slaves.
What are Black Codes?
What is the Mexican-American War?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act invalidated this earlier policy regarding slavery in territories.
What is the Missouri Comprimise of 1820?
President Lincoln nationalized this industry during the war and used this modern innovation to help defeat the Confederacy.
What is the railroad?
This group sought to provide more rights and opportunties to former slaves after the Civil War.
What is Radical Republicans (Radical Reconstruction)?
Election of this president, along with waning support for Reconstruction in the North, contributed to the end of Reconstruction.
Who was President Hayes?
This early policy, adopted in 1787, was the first to prohibit slavery in parts of the United States.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
This idea that the people of each state could choose whether to permit slavery or not was opposed by abolitionists.
What is popular soverignty?
What solidified the purpose of the Civil War to be the liberation of slaves in states in rebellion?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This government office helped to provide education, job training, and economic support for feedmen during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This economic event caused wanning focus on Reconstruction ideas.
What is the Depression of 1873?
This was the reason that people took the long journey to California in the 1840s.
What is the Gold Rush?
What political party did members of the free soil movement eventually join?
What is the Republican party?
Lincoln referenced ideas from this foundational document to inspire support for the war and ending slavery in the Gettysburg Address.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This system of renting farmland from plantation owners kept freedmen in a cycle of poverty after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
What were the terms of the Compromise of 1877?
What is the military was removed from the South, and Republican President Hayes was declared winner of the election.
This expansionst President was responsible for waging war with Mexico for more territory.
Who is James Polk?
This Court case asserted that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be citizens of the United States and that Congress lacked the authority to ban slavery in the federal territories.
What is the Dred Scott case (Dred Scott v. Sandford)
Identify two weaknesses of the Confederacy that contributed to Union victory?
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Identify one specific success and one specific failure of Reconstruciton.
Answers vary but could include: Successes - amendments, education, marriage laws. Failures - black codes, KKK, violence, sharecropping.