Westward Expansion
The U.S. desire to own land from coast to coast. President James Polk stated that Land equals Wealth and the need for this because of the population boom
Manafest Destiny
Encouraged people to be more religious. Caused social reform which led in led into the Reform Era
Second Great Awakening
Regions geography impacted its economy. The North built factories, the South farmed and the West mined. This was a cause to the Civil War.
Sectionalism
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
After the Civil War, South in financial ruin and divided into 5 military districts.
Reconstruction
Acquired from Britain in a treaty. The U.S. achieved Manifest Destiny.
Oregon Territory
Worked to improve prison condition and create facilities for the mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
The _____________ economy had textile mills, trade, factories, immigrant labor along with some trade-related slave labor
Northern
Civil War President, against secession, wanted to preserve the Union
Abraham Lincoln
This group took control after Lincoln's death. Punished Confederate leaders and Southerners for the Civil War
Radical Republicans
Caused by U.S. annexing Texas. Also caused by a border dispute between Texas and Mexico
U.S.-Mexican War
Led by women, fought to decrease alcohol consumption
Temperance Movement
The ______________ economy had plantation systems, slave labor, cotton produced from this area was sent to Northern factories
Southern
This side of the war had more factories, railroads, money and the leadership of General Grant
Union (North)
Laws that limited the new freedom of former slaves
Black Codes
Land the U.S. acquired after the U.S.-Mexican War in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Led to debates over expansion of slavery into new territories.
Mexican Cession
This group worked to end slavery. Some of their leaders were Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), Frederick Douglas (The North Star), Harriet Tubman (Underground Railroad), William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator).
Abolitionist
The ______________ economy had mining (precious metals) and agriculture (farming and livestock)
Western
The Union Army captured the Mississippi River during this battle. Divided the Confederacy in half.
Battle of Vicksburg
Worked to help newly freed slaves by providing education, clothing, food, and jobs
Freedmen's Bureau
Population increased. Chinese immigrants came to the U.S. and later worked on Transcontinental Railroad and faced discrimination.
California Gold Rush
Founded by Emerson and Thoreau. Focused on ideal societies and individualism. Used civil disobedience as a form of protest
Transcendentalism
A compromise where the North and South agreed. California would become a free state and a "strict" fugitive slave law was passed.
Compromise of 1850
Robert E. Lee (Confederacy) surrendered to Ulysses Grant (Union) ending the Civil War at this place?
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
The first African American U.S. Senator
Hiram Rhodes Revels