Westward Expansion
This 19th-century doctrine justified U.S. territorial expansion across North America, promoting the belief that it was the nation’s divine right to spread from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This network of secret routes and safe houses was used in the 19th century to help enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the North and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This actor and Confederate sympathizer assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The wealthiest American who ever lived as a result of the oil industry and his company – Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The letters in MAIN represent
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism?
This 1846 proposal aimed to ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico, igniting fierce debates over the expansion of slavery in the United States.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This president was elected in 1860, delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863 and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, leading the nation through its Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A nickname given to republicans in Congress who advocated for racial equality during the civil war and reconstruction.
What is Radical Republican?
Group of immigrants often credited the most for helping build the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are Chinese Immigrants?
Message meant for Mexico, intercepted by the British
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
The name of the president who was elected in 1844 (Hint: they were pro-westward expansion)
Who is James K. Polk?
This radical abolitionist is best known for his violent raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, aiming to initiate a slave uprising.
Who is John Brown?
This government agency, established in 1865, provided assistance to freed slaves and impoverished white people in the Southern United States after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
What political party was initially founded by western farmers during the Industrial Revolution?
Who is the Populist Party?
Imprisoned a person who tried to incite rebellion in the military or obstructed the draft for up to 20 years
What is the Espionage Act?
1848 agreement, following the Mexican-American War, resulted in Mexico ceding over 500,000 square miles of territory to the United States, including present-day California and New Mexico
What is the Mexican Cession?
This amendment ended slavery across the U.S.
What is the 13th amendment?
This former Union general, who served as President from 1869 to 1877, supported Congressional Reconstruction and fought against the Ku Klux Klan with the Enforcement Acts.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A government approach that remained ‘hands off’ when governing corporations and put in place very few regulations.
What is a laissez faire approach?
How many Americans died when the Luisitania got sunk?
What is 128?
This transcendentalist author famously refused to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War, advocating for civil disobedience against unjust government actions.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This acronym refers to the African American regiments that fought for the Union during the Civil War.
What are the United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T)?
These two Reconstruction Amendments, ratified in 1868 and 1870 respectively, granted citizenship and equal protection under the law, and extended voting rights to African American men.
What are the 14th and 15th Amendments?
Practice that believed that those who were most “fit” in business would succeed and become rich – in other words, those who deserved to be rich would be and those who deserved to be poor would be.
What is Social Darwinism?
Government act that required all men aged 18-45 to register for the draft.
What is the Selective Service Act?