Per.2 is my favorite class. No per. 3 is. No, wait, per. 6. ugh!!! I can't decide.
Defined citizenship as anyone born in the United States
What is the 14th amendment?
19th-century belief that the United States was divinely destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Laws that effectively limited the social and political power of blacks in the south right after the Civil War
What are the black codes?
A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a portion of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
Used by southerners to restrict African-American voting rights.
Poll tax and Literacy tests
Document that declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and hence forward shall be free.“
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Which principle divides power between national and state governments?
Federalism
Harriet Tubman, John Brown, William LLoyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass, to name a few
Who are the abolitionists?
Post-war Federal program that provided food, clothing, and education to African-Americans and white refugees in the South
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1800's real estate purchase cost $15 million!
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The British economic system of mercantilism expected colonies to:
Provide raw materials and serve only as markets for British goods
the amendment that prohibited slavery
What is the 13th amendment
led slave revolt at Harper's Ferry
Who was John Brown?
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Act of 1850 required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
What was the Missouri Compromise?
A federal law that permitted Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and permitting slavery in all new states created south of Missouri's southern border. This maintained the balance of power in the senate.
How did the Mexican-American War create more tensions over slavery?
The war gave the US new territories which could upset the balance of North-South power in Congress.
The trans-atlantic crossing of imprisoned Africans on slave ships from Africa to the Americas
What is the middle passage?
Separation of powers spreads governmental authority between these three branches of the federal government
What are executive, legistlative, and judicial?
Amendment that gave blacks the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
The number of Africans who were kidnapped and sold as slaves in the Americas
what is ~12.5 million
What we call the regional conflict between Northern and Southern states.
What is the sectional conflict or sectionalism
President during the first stage of Reconstruction
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Supreme Court case upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional
What was the Dred Scott decision? Will accept Scott vs. Sanford
During the Gilded Age (late 1800s), most immigrants came to the US from which region of the world?
Southern and Eastern Europe