What is manifest destiny?
A doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What was the compromise of 1820 called, and what did it do?
Missouri Compromise - Missouri was a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana
What were the 4 things enacted in the compromise of 1850?
California was admitted as a free state Slave trade outlawed in DC New fugitive slave law enacted Popular sovereignty for future states
Explain the economies of the North and the South states.
The North was based of off manufacturing and industry The South was based off of agriculture in growing tobacco/cotton and slavery
Define Allegiance
loyalty or commitment to a superior or an individual to a group or cause.
Define Public Virtue
the character to voluntarily sacrifice or subjugate personal wants for the greater good of other individuals or the community
What is an abolitionist?
a person who wants to end slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote whether or not slavery would be permitted there
What are the 4 turnings?
High Awakening Unraveling crisis
Who is John Brown?
A violent abolitionist who tried to start a slave revolution.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas
What is secession?
Formal withdrawal of states from the United States.
Who were the candidates in the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Bell, John Breckenridge
Who won the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Where were the first shots fired during the civil war?
Ft. Sumpter
