Mexican-American War
The cause of Mexican-American War.
What is westward expansion?
The law that mandated Northerners to help capture runaway slaves under penalty of law.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The event that caused South Carolina to leave the Union.
What is Lincoln's election?
The first Federal land attacked by the Confederacy that started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The effect of the emancipation proclamation.
What is free slaves in the Confederacy?
The commonly accepted purpose of the Mexican-American War.
What is there was no commonly accepted purpose?
The compromise that established a horizontal line where new states above the line would be free states and new states below the line would be slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The reason why Union troops could be transported faster than Confederate troops.
What are railroads?
The name of an anti-slavery activist.
What is an abolitionists?
Three states gained from the Mexican-American War.
What is New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado?
This compromise established California as a Free State.
What is the compromise of 1850?
The largest military advantage the Confederacy had.
What is more experienced soldiers?
The reason the Union was fighting the Civil War.
What is to keep the Union together?
The only way Lincoln allowed Confederate States to keep their slaves.
What is rejoin the Union within 100 days?
The branch of government that can declare war.
Who is Congress?
This form of deciding if a state was a slave state or not relied on the citizens of that state to vote.
What is popular sovereignty?
The main economic good that the South produced.
What are cash crops?
What is agriculture?
The tool that allowed the Union to communicate over far distances almost instantly.
What is a telegram?
The foreign countries that Lincoln tried to prevent from entering the Civil War.
Who are England and France?
The dispute between Mexico and America before the Mexican-American War?
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The most expensive asset/capital/property that the South relied on.
What are slaves?
The reason why Lincoln won the election despite not wining by a majority.
What is the two Democratic candidates split the Democratic vote?
The states where slaves were not emancipated.
What are slave states that did not leave the Union?