Westward Expansion
This belief said the United States was meant to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Northern economy focused on this type of work.
What are factories and industry?
This compromise tried to keep balance between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
These states separated from the United States.
Who were the Confederates?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This trail helped settlers travel west to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The Southern economy depended heavily on this labor system.
What is enslaved labor?
This law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This side wanted to preserve the United States.
What is the Union?
This famous conductor on the Underground Railroad helped many enslaved people escape.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Many settlers moved west looking for this.
What are land and new opportunities?
The North had more of these during the Civil War.
What are factories/railroads?
This Supreme Court decision said enslaved people were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
True or False: The Underground Railroad was an actual railroad with trains.
What is False?
This illness became famous in the Oregon Trail game for ending many players’ journeys
What is Dysentery?
The South mainly grew these types of crops.
What are cash crops such as cotton and tobacco?
This group worked to end slavery in the United States.
Who are Abolitionist?
What battle was known as the turning point of the civil war?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
People who helped guide enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad were sometimes called this.
What are conductors?
One major result of westward expansion was increased conflict over this issue.
What is slavery in new territories?
This was the major difference between the North and South before the Civil War.
What is industry in the North and agriculture/slavery in the South?
Name two events or laws that increased tensions over slavery before the Civil War.
What are the Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, Bleeding Kansas, or the expansion of slavery into western territories? (Any two.)
This speech encouraged the nation to heal after the Civil War.
What is Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address?
This was one reason the Underground Railroad was dangerous.
What is escaped enslaved people and helpers could be captured or punished?