Westward Expansion
This president purchased the Louisiana Territory from France's Napoleon for $15 million.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The three sections of the U.S. prior to the Civil War
What are the North, the South, and the West?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here
What is Fort Sumter?
A period of religious revivalism in the 1800s that focused on reform and repairing moral injustices
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This president forced Cherokee Indians to leave their territory as troops marched them west under the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The large estates where slave owners and slaves lived in the South
What are plantations?
The single bloodiest battle of the Civil War. More Americans were killed on this day than any other in U.S. history
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The reform movement to reduce the use of alcoholic beverages
What is the Temperance Movement?
Laws passed in the South after the Civil War which were aimed at controlling freedmen
What are Black Codes?
In 1787, this ordinance created an orderly procedure for establishing territories and applying for statehood.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This law allowed California to become a state, outlawed the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and allowed territories to decide for themselves whether to be slave or free.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The commanding Union and Confederate generals (must correctly identify both)
Union: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
The movement to end slavery
What is abolition?
A violent group opposed to integration of the races and Radical Republican policies
Ku Klux Klan
This important event happened in 1849.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This act helped slave owners recover their runaway slaves from the North (part of the Compromise of 1850).
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This general, who received a nickname from his troops, is widely considered one of America's greatest battlefield strategists.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision made slavery legal in all territories
What is Dred Scott?
Politician known as "The Great Compromiser"; he created the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the compromise that ended the nullification crisis
Who is Henry Clay?
The Manifest Destiny was helped to be fulfilled when the U.S. won the Mexican War, which resulted in Mexico ceding the land that now includes these states.
What are California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado?
The term used by Southerners to describe the tariff imposed by Northerners on imported goods.
The Tariff of Abominations
The location where Lee surrendered to Grant, effectively ending the Civil War
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
The name of Abraham Lincoln's assassin
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The formal name of the nation the Southern states formed when they seceded from the United States
What is the Confederate States of America?