Manifest Destiny
The notion that we have a God given right to conquer from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny
What provision of the Compromise of 1850 was aimed at more strictly enforcing the return of escaped slaves?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This Election (year) brought the first Republican into the White House, but also led to South Carolina deciding to secede from the union.
What is the Election of 1860?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was the name of Lincoln's plan for reconstruction.
What is the 10 percent plan?
This nation won it's independence from Mexico in 1836.
What is Texas?
This act led to the practice of popular sovereignty to determine slavery in territories north of Texas and Oklahoma.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This attempted slave rebellion led to it's leader being called a martyr in some northern circles.
What is John Brown's Raid?
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
President Johnson angered this group in Congress over how lenient his plan was for reconstruction.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The slogan "54, 40 or fight!" was in reference to what territory?
What is Oregon
This new political party formed with a platform that included preventing the spread of slavery into new territories.
What is the Republican Party?
What is the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
This was the major turning point in the Civil War in the East.
What is Gettysburg?
This was the role of the military under Congressional Reconstruction (Radical Republican).
What is occupy the south and enforce the Civil War Amendments?
What modern day states were gained from Mexico in the Mexican Cession at the end of the Mexican-American War?
What is Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California?
This Supreme Court Case declared that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford?
This was a nickname given to a territory where border ruffians from Missouri fought with abolitionists.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This was the turning point of the Civil War in the west.
What is Vicksburg?
This Federal organization was setup to help former slaves.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
What was the name of the Compromise that settled the issue of whether or not we would have slavery in newly acquired territory from Mexico?
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This Treaty officially ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This many states seceded from the union during the Civil War.
What is eleven?
This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
This event led to the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?