Compromise of 1850
What law required the return of escaped enslaved people in the North?
The Fugitive Slave Act
What is “Manifest Destiny”?
The belief that America was destined to expand and control all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What was the Trail of Tears?
The forced removal of Indigenous people from the "five civilized tribes" from the Southeast (Georgia) to Oklahoma. Conditions were harsh. Indigenous people were provided little, if any, food and clothing. Many died.
Who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Ends slavery in the United States, except for as punishment for a crime.
Name one key component of the Compromise of 1850 besides the Fugitive Slave Act.
-California enters the union as a free state.
-Popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico.
-Abolishment of the Slave Trade in Washington D.C.
What painting illustrates Manifest Destiny (1872)?
American Progress by John Gast
Name two ways the U.S. government treated Indigenous peoples.
- Land removal
- Wars
- Signing treaties for Native land, and then breaking those treaties.
- Native boarding schools
Name a right women demanded (1800–1870).
Right to own property.
Equality within marriage.
Right to work.
Right to control her own body.
Why was the amendment necessary?
Southern states needed to abolish slavery to re-enter the Union after the Civil War.
Why would this poster show up in Boston but not in the South?
There was an abolition movement in the North that would warn escaped slaves about the new law. Southern cities would support the Fugitive Slave Act.
Name one piece of technology in the “American Progress” painting.
Railroads, wagons, electric lines, steam ships.
What hardships did those on the Trail of Tears endure?
Lack of food, shelter, clothing, medicine. No horses, forced to walk. Soldiers beating native people who fell behind.
Provide one historical example of women’s mistreatment.
Women couldn't own property.
Women's clothing hurt their body (corsets and lung capacity).
In the case of divorce, the father determines what happens to the children.
Limited options for work.
Forced to be a servant to her husband or father.
What were the Black Codes?
Laws passed after the Civil War that discriminated against African Americans.
What balanced California's entry as a free state?
Popular Sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico.
How did that technology aid westward expansion?
Wagons and trains make it easier to travel and trade. Steam boats make trade easier, making new markets possible. Electricity brings opportunities for people to live in new places with comfort.
What law forced relocation of the Cherokee?
Indian Removal Act
Why were married women considered legally dead?
They lost all their property rights to their husband. Could not vote.
Name the most successful service provided to free Blacks and poor whites offered by the Freedmen's Bureau.
New schools, teachers, colleges, and universities. The expansion of education.
How did the Fugitive Slave Act impact slavery in America?
The Fugitive Slave Act nationalized slavery. There is no longer a part of America that escaped slaves are safe in. Even free states have to return enslaved people to their plantations if they are discovered.
What impact did Manifest Destiny have on Indigenous people?
Indigenous people were removed from their land, marginalized, forced to assimilate to European culture. Many were killed. Genocide.
How does the Trail of Tears impact Indigenous life today?
Life on reservations.
Highest levels of poverty in the US.
Alcoholism.
Lack of opportunities.
Explain why conditions for women of color were worse.
Racism criminalized black women.
They are often excluded from the women's rights movement (even though many of the first pushes for women's rights were headed up by Black women).
Describe a long-term impact of Reconstruction.
The rise of the KKK - Racist terrorism in the US.
Creation of historically Black colleges and universities.
Bad feelings between the North and South.
Jim Crow laws.
Right to vote for Black Men.
Increased political rights for Black folks.