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why did the U.S decline to annex texas?
president jackson and van buren knew that annexing texas as a slave state would divide the democraric party and the american public would almost certainly lead to war with mexico
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manifest dynasty
the citizens of the U.S were destined by god to dominate the inferior peoples of the continent
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in asking congress to declare war on mexico, polk charged that mexico..
had invaded american territoryy and shed american blood on american soil
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wilmot proviso of 1846
prohibited slavery in any territory acquired from mexico
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the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo
purchased more than 1/3 of mexicos territory forv$15 million
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popular sovereignety as a response to extension of slavery
it was championed by senators lewis cass and stephen A. douglas to allow voters in western territories to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted tolegalize slavery
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the compromise of 1850 did NOT include
abolition of slavery in oregon territory
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unlce toms cabin
increased opposition to the fugitive slave act and prompted northern legislatures to challenge federal authority
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the fundamental principle in which all republicans agreed on was..
an absolute opposition to the expansion of slavery into any new territories
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the know nothings
originated in anti-immigrant and anti-catholic societies of the 1840s
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in the summer of 1856 in kansas,
john brown and his followers burdered and mutilated 5 proslavery settlers in revenge for attacks on abolitionists, which initiated guerilla warfare
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int he dred scott decision, which position was NOT held by by chief justice roger b. taney
both the missouri compromise and the kansas nebraska act were constitutional
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in an 1858 senate campaign speech, lincoln...
warned that the nation could not endure in its present state as a house divided against itslef., that is half slave and half free
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the movement toward secession was most rapid in
south carolina
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president buchanan responded to the secession crisis by..
declaring secession illegal but claiming that the federal government lacked the authority to force a state to return to the union
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the most important confederate war aim
permanent independence and to be let alone
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the first battle of bull run (or manassas)
union troops panicked during a confederate counterattack and retreated to washington
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the battle of antietm resulted in
the bloodiest single day in american military history
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after the battle of antietam, lincoln..
declared the battle a union victory to rally public support in the north
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the union victory at shiloh resulted in
a switch to tactics of fighting a total war
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the draft composed by the confederate army in april 1862..
exempted one white man for every 20 slaves, allowing men on large plantations to avoid military service
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the U.S sanitary comission
was a voluntary organization in the north, endorsed by president lincoln, to provide medical services, dristribute supplies and medicines, and recruit physicians and nurses
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women in the north and south worked in all of the following ooccupations EXCEPT
winning state and national political office to occupy seats vacated by men fighting at the front
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noths advantages over the south at the beginning of the civil war
facorties in the north accounted for nearly 90% of the nations industrial output
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why did lincoln choose to issue his emancipation proclomation in septemeber?
he had decided against issuing the proclamation as long as the union seemes to be losing the war, but after the battle of antietam, he chose to shift the underlying rationale for the norths war effort to emancipation while he continued to sustain northern support
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battle of gettysburg
union forces turned back the confederate invasion of the north and didminished the souths prospects for eventual victory
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th 13th amendment was approved..
because lincoln and congressional leaders feared that the emancipation proclamation would lose its legal force after the war and allow defeated former confederate states to reestablish slavery
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the ten percent plan that lincoln announced
stipulated that a state could return to the union when 10% of those who voted had taken an oathof loyalty to the union
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NOT an element of andrew johnsons plan for restoring southern state governments
it was based on the assumption that the former confederate states had forfeited all their constitutional rights when they seceded from the union
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the freedmens bureau
was responsible for resettlment and distribution of confiscated land and regulated labor contracts between freedmen and planters
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the 14th ammendment required states to guarantee all the following rights EXCEPT
suffrage to adult freedmen
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NOT a provision of the reconstruction act of 1867
federal funding for schools for southern blacks
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impeachment of andrew johnson
radical republicans failed to impeach johnson, but damaged him so badly politically that for the rest of his presidency, he had to allow reconstruction to proceed under the direction of congress
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the 15th ammendment
forbade states from denying any citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition as a slave
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womens suffrage movement after the civil war
many feminists who had been abolitionists were disapointed that the 15th ammendment made no reference to gender and permitted states to continue to deny suffrage to women
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carpetbaggers
former union army officers who decided that the south was a pleasant or promising place to resettle
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the sharecropping system in the post-civil war south
joined laborers and landowners in a common sharing of risks and returns
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the first grand wizard of the KKK
nathan bedford forest
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does NOT help to explain the diminishing effectivness of reconstrucion is the south
the expanded presence of federal troops and officials in 1875 to 1877 brought about an escalation in souther terrorist retaliation
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in the election of 1876
the democratic candidate won the popular vote, but republican officials in three southern states certified republican victories, resulting in two sets of electoral votes being sent by congress
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