CIVIL WAR
Question: What is popular sovereignty?
Answer: The principle that the people of a territory should decide for themselves whether to permit slavery.
This was a pull factor that brought European Immigrants to the United States after the Civil War.
WHAT IS THE AVAILABILITY OF LAND.
Answer: Lincoln's lenient plan for readmitting Southern states, requiring only this percentage of voters to swear an oath of loyalty.
What is 10 percent?
The 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand across the entire continent..."FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA"
What is Manifest Destiny?
The destruction of this animal's population was a key factor in the subjugation of the Plains Indians and the opening of the West for ranching.
What is the buffalo (or bison)?
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe dramatically exposed the moral evils of slavery to a northern audience.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Answer: He was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This government agency was established to provide food, clothing, healthcare, and education for newly freed African Americans.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1862 Act offered 160 acres of public land to any citizen who agreed to live on and improve it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The political party that grew from farmers' movements and advocated for policies like bimetallism, a graduated income tax, and government ownership of railroads.
What is the Populist Party (or the People's Party)?
This Supreme Court decision declared that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
The Union's strategy to blockade Southern ports, control the Mississippi River, and capture the Confederate capital.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it connected the eastern and western United States and revolutionized transportation.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A series of laws that admitted California as a free state but included a much stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This battle remains the single bloodiest day in American history and gave Lincoln the victory he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The group in Congress that sought to punish the South and ensure full rights for African Americans.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This 1887 act sought to "Americanize" Native Americans by breaking up reservations and distributing land to individual households.
What is the Dawes Act?
This organization, officially the Patrons of Husbandry, started as a social group but grew into a political force demanding state regulation of railroad rates.
What is The Grange?
This abolitionist's raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, made him a martyr in the North and a terrorist in the South.
Who is John Brown?
This three-day battle in Pennsylvania is considered the major turning point of the war in the East.
Question: What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The name for Northerners who moved to the South and Southerners who supported Republican policies during Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
The forced removal of federal troops from the South as part of the Compromise of 1877 led directly to this.
What is the end of Reconstruction?
This technological innovation was critical to the Union war effort, the economic development of the "New South," and the settlement of the West, fundamentally uniting the country into a single national market.
What is the railroad?