Unit 3 Key Terms (Expansion and Conflict) Flashcards
What is Corrupt Bargain?
Andrew Jackson
- he signed the Indian Removal Act.
what is Expansion?
increasing land in size and quantity
What were Antebellum Reformers?
Compromise of 1850
five separate bills passed by the United States Congress that temporarily defused tensions between slave and free states in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
Uncle Tom’s 1850
gave people insight to how the slaves were living and being treated.
Kansas Nebraska Act
repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas entered the union as a free state and because they wanted to do this a fight broke out.
Abolition Movement
espoused the view that slavery was morally wrong, and that the United States should ban slavery and emancipate all enslaved people
Wilmot Proviso
Was a proposal to ban slavery in territories Acquired from Mexico The Senate, equally divided between free states and slave states could not muster the majority necessary for approval.
Popular Sovereignty
government based on consent of the people
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott Decision
upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Lincoln Douglas Debates
were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln.The main focus of these debates was slavery and its influence on American politics and society
Fugitive Slave Act
required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
Industrial Revolution
the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines.
Slavery (Gradualism Approach
gradually emancipated enslaved people without making slavery immediately illegal.
Manifest Destiny
the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America
John Brown and Harpers Ferry
John Brown chose Harpers Ferry because of the guns stored here, thousands of them, at the government arsenal and armory. He hoped that he could get rid of slavery in this country by a violent act one of two ways
Succession of South Carolina
When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat
Fort Sumter
forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Less than two days later, the fort surrendered. No one was killed.
