Manifest Destiny(Expansion)
What event inspired the creation of manifest destiny?
Westward expansion, Louisiana purchase, Mexican American war
This line from the Missouri Compromise divided free and slave territory in the western lands.
What is the 36'30 line
Where was the first offensive of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Which Amendment banned slavery
13th Amendement
This 1860 election victory by a Republican candidate led directly to Southern states beginning to secede.
Abraham Lincoln
After annexing 55% of Mexico territory, what other two territories did the United States annexed?
Oregon and Alaska
This 1850 law forced people in the North to help capture escaped enslaved individuals.
what is the fugitive slave act
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
He became president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination and oversaw the initial, lenient phase of Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
This 1846–1848 war between the U.S. and Mexico resulted in major territorial gains that intensified slavery debates.
Mexican-American war
What president promised to annex Texas and led to the Mexican American War?
James Polk
This 1857 Supreme Court case ended in a ruling that Congress could not prohibit slavery in all U.S territories
What is Dred Scott vs Sandford
Where did the final surrender of the Confederacy occur?
Appomattox Court House (Virginia)
This Nickname was given to Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction to take advantage of political or economic opportunities.
Carpetbaggers
This 1863 document declared enslaved people in rebelling states to be free.
The emancipation proclamation
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty in new territories and led to the violent conflict known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas-Nebraska act
What was the first major land battle of the Civil War?
The First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas, VA)
This government agency, established in 1865, provided food, clothing, and education to former slaves.
Freedmans Bureau
This amendment, ratified in 1870, granted African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
What general and future president crossed the river Rio Grande and started the Mexican American war?
Zachary Taylor
This controversial compromise ended Reconstruction in 1877 by resolving the disputed 1876 presidential election.
What is the compromise of 1877
What decisive Union victory in 1863 "split the Confederacy in two?"
The Siege of Vicksburg
These discriminatory exams required voters to read and interpret sections of the state constitution to Prevent African Americans from voting.
Literacy Tests
A key way the Union weakened the Confederates ability to fight was with this Union Generals "March to the sea."
General Sherman