Manifest Destiny
In the Early/Mid-1800s, Americans were encouraged to move West under the notion that they were God's chosen people.
Manifest Destiny
The idea that the people are the source of a government's authority and legitimacy, and that the government is created and sustained by the consent of the people.
Popular Sovereignty
The Catalyst and final straw for the Southern States to succeed from the Union was the...
Election of 1860 (Election of Lincoln)
In 1862, Lincoln and the Republicans passed this act to encourage settlers to move into Western Territory
The Homestead Act
The 13th Amendment was unlucky for slave owners as
It abolished slavey in the US
Which of the following contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860s and 1870s?
A. Dry seasons turned fertile land to semidesert and made real estate inexpensive.
B. A strong military eliminated attacks by Native Americans
C. The Expansion of the railroads made the Great Plains more accessible.
D. The Novels of romantics like Hamlin Garland glorified western life.
C
From 1820-1854, newly admitted territories followed the decision made by the Missouri Compromise. Which compromise stated that Western Territory would have the right to choose if they were free or slave states in 1854?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Under the 5th Amendment, the Supreme Court stated that the Government has no right to tell citizens what they can and cannot do with their property in this 1850's decision.
The Dred Scott Decision
Following this (Bloodiest Day in US History) Civil War battle, Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the Confederacy.
The Battle of Antietam
It gave black men the right to vote
This Treaty ended the Mexican-American War, and gave the US portions of the now SW US and California.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Henry Clay was known as the Great Compromiser for his work on the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. What were two parts of the Compromise of 1850 following the Mexican-American War?
This complex bill sought to preserve the Union by addressing the issue of slavery in new territories:
"So you're the little lady who started this Great War?" Lincoln said to Harriet Beacher Stowe. Her book titled ________ gave many Northerners their first taste of what slavery truly looked like in the South.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Following the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln Effectively prevented European nations from intervening in the Civil War. Why?
GB and other nations did not want to support the Confederacy who was fighting to preserve slavery
Black codes were passed in a number of southern states after the Civil war were intended to
place limitations on the socioeconomic and other opportunities for African Americans
The annexation of Texas by the United States, American desire for westward expansion fueled by "Manifest Destiny", and a disagreement over the border (Rio Grande) were all major causes in what American conflict with another nation from 1846-1848?
The Mexican American War
From 1854-1861, border ruffians and free-soilers fought over whether Kansas would be free territory. This northern Congressman and future Radical Republican would be beaten by Preston Brooks for talking negatively about the South's support of slavery in the New Territory.
Charles Sumner
"We do not know whether free laborers ever sleep...The free laborer must work or starve. He is more of a slave than the Negro, because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end. He has no liberty, and not a single right."
This quote above reflects the common argument held by many southerners that...
Slaves lived better lives than a northern factory worker
The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in...
The draft riots in NYC
A cycle of debt and depression for Southern farmers was created through the passing of this farming system
Remember the Alamo! This battle cry rang out as Texans fought for their independence. Give 2 reasons as to which Texans felt the need to fight for it in the first place.
Texans were told they must:
Give up their slaves
Convert to Catholicism
Pay taxes to the Mexican Government
Give up their weapons
They could not become a part of America
"I, ________, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.". This quote essentially foreshadowed the coming Civil War by suggesting that the issue of slavery could only be resolved through significant bloodshed.
Following his hanging, he was viewed as a martyr by the North, infuriating the South even further.
John Brown
"All persons born or naturalized in the US and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the US and of the State wherein they reside."
What amendment noted here made the Dred Scott Deicsion bad law following it's ratification
14th Amendment
Give two advantages and disadvantages of the Union and Confederacy going into the Civil War
Answers may vary
Placing the South under Bayonet Rule, the first black members of congress from the south, the creation of the KKK, and the continual waving of the bloody shirt all took place during this period of reconstruction:
Congressional (Radical Republicans) Reconstruction