apush period 5

Question 1

13th amendment

Question 2

14th amendment

Question 3

15th amendment

Question 4

dred scott vs sanford

Question 5

the nullification crisis

Question 6

secession

Question 7

abolition

Question 8

free soil

Question 9

second party system

Question 10

third party system

Question 11

republican party

Question 12

missouri compromise

Answer 12

deal proposed by kentucky senator henry clay in 1820 to resolve the slave/free imbalance in congress that would result from missouri’s admission as a slave state; maine’s admission as a free state offset missouri, and slavery was prohibited in the remainder of the louisiana territory north of the southern border of missouri

Question 13

federal vs state power

Question 14

compromise of 1850

Answer 14

complex compromise devised by senator henry clay that admitted california as a free state, included a stronger fugitive slave law, and delayed determination of the slave status of the new mexico and utah territories

Question 15

geography of the civil war (regions and parties)

Question 16

homestead act

Question 17

manifest destiny

Answer 17

phrase first used in 1845 to urge annexation of texas; used thereafter to encourage u.s. settlement of european colonial and native lands in the great plains and the west and, more generally, as a justification for american empire

Question 18

popular soverignty

Answer 18

program that allowed settlers in a disputed territory to decide the slavery issue for themselves; most closely associated with senator stephen a. douglas of illinois

Question 19

nativism

Answer 19

anti-immigrant and anti-catholic feeling especially prominent from the 1830s through the 1850s; the largest group of its proponents was new york’s order of the star-spangled banner, which expanded into the american (know-nothing) party in 1854

Question 20

life under reconstruction

Question 21

sectionalism

Question 22

end of reconstruction

Question 23

mexican-american war