Reconstruction acts
Divided the south into 5 zones under military occupation. Increased requirements for rejoining (also ratify 14th amendment and have universal suffrage)
Mexican-American war
Disputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
Tenure of Office Act
Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)
Johnson impeached
Pres. Johnson violated the tenure of office act, and impeachment failed by one vote
All African Americans were citizens of the United States
A coalition of free soilers and whigs and northern democrats who's goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Established the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
Bleeding Kansas
Battle of Vicksburg
Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
Anaconda plan
Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
Many northerners opposed the expansion of slavery, and abolitionists despised the law. There were often riots when Southerners would try to bring back a runaway slave.
Gold rush
Gold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed
Kansas-Nebraska act
divided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!
John Brown
Led a small raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to arm the southern slave population and incite a slave rebellion
Election of 1860
Lincoln campaigned on halting the expansion of slavery. He won without a single Southern electoral vote, prompting the south to realize they no longer any voice in the future of slavery in america
Positions on expansion of slavery
Dred Scott case
Free Soil Party
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
White supremacy continued to dominate. Secret societies continued to terrorize African Americans (and Catholics, jews, and immigrants)
Texan independence
Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
Black codes
Compromise of 1877
Wilmot Proviso
Election of 1844
James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
California and New Mexico wanted to enter the union as free states.
Henry Clay created compromise: New Mexico and Utah would vote on slavery, California would be admitted as a free state, Slavery would be banned in Washington D.C., and there would be a new fugitive slave act
