Civil War Causes
This idea claimed Americans were destined to expand across North America.
Manifest Destiny
This Union victory allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam
This law gave settlers land if they farmed and improved it.
Homestead Act
This term describes a time when economic growth existed alongside serious social problems.
Gilded Age
This March holiday celebrates Irish culture.
St. Patrick’s Day
This law angered many Northerners by requiring them to return escaped enslaved people.
Fugitive Slave Act
The Union victory that split the Confederacy by giving control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
The railroad completed in 1869 that connected the eastern and western United States.
Transcontinental Railroad
The belief that government should interfere very little in business.
laissez-faire
What officially begins around March 20 in the Northern Hemisphere.
spring
Strong loyalty to one region rather than the nation is known as this.
sectionalism
The location where Confederate forces officially surrendered in 1865.
Appomattox Court House
This Native American victory occurred when Sioux and Cheyenne forces defeated Custer.
Battle of Little Bighorn
A company that dominates an entire industry and reduces competition.
monopoly
In basketball, this NCAA tournament held in March determines the national champion, who won it all last year?
Florida Gators
This allowed settlers to vote on slavery, increasing tensions.
Popular Sovereignty
This military strategy aimed to destroy Southern resources and weaken civilian support for the war.
total war
This U.S. policy forced Native Americans onto designated lands controlled by the government.
reservation system
This steel industrialist became famous for donating much of his wealth to libraries and education.
Andrew Carnegie
The first day of spring occurs during this astronomical event when day and night are nearly equal.
vernal equinox
This debate over whether slavery would expand into new territories repeatedly divided Congress.
What is the expansion of slavery into new territories
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
This event in 1890 marked the end of large-scale Native resistance on the Plains.
Wounded Knee
This financial leader helped create U.S. Steel and reorganized large corporations.
J. P. Morgan
This famous flower is often associated with the arrival of spring.
tulip or daffodil