Unit 3 Key Terms (Expansion and Conflict)

Question 1

What is Corrupt Bargain?

Question 2

Andrew Jackson

Answer 2

• he signed the Indian Removal Act.

Question 3

what is Expansion?

Answer 3

increasing land in size and quantity

Question 4

What were Antebellum Reformers?

Question 5

Compromise of 1850

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Uncle Tom’s 1850

Answer 6

gave people insight to how the slaves were living and being treated.

Question 7

Kansas Nebraska Act

Answer 7

repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.

Question 8

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 8

Kansas entered the union as a free state and because they wanted to do this a fight broke out.

Question 9

Abolition Movement

Answer 9

espoused the view that slavery was morally wrong, and that the United States should ban slavery and emancipate all enslaved people

Question 10

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 11

government based on consent of the people

Question 12

Abraham Lincoln

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.

Question 14

Lincoln Douglas Debates

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 15

required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.

Question 16

Industrial Revolution

Answer 16

the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines.

Question 17

Slavery (Gradualism Approach

Answer 17

gradually emancipated enslaved people without making slavery immediately illegal.

Question 18

Manifest Destiny

Answer 18

the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America

Question 19

John Brown and Harpers Ferry

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Succession of South Carolina

Answer 20

When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat

Question 21

Fort Sumter

Answer 21

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.