The US and the World
Increased Sectionalism
Compromise/Conflict
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
100

Harriet Tubman and other abolitionists created this network of safe-houses and routes for enslaved people to find their way to freedom.

What is the Underground Railroad

100

What piece of legislation allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, even though the area was split by the Missouri Compromise line.

What is the Compromise of 1850

100
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
100
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
200
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law
What is the Homestead Act
200

The fiery abolitionist believed only violence could end slavery, committing murders in "Bleeding Kansas" and raiding the Harper's Ferry arsenal. 

Who is John Brown

200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
200
The strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
300

The only state in the Union to be a colony of Mexico, an independent republic, and then annexed as the 28th state.

What is Texas?

300

This South Carolina politician (and VP to Andrew Jackson) supported the "slavocracy" of the South and touted the benefits of the "peculiar institution"

Who is John C.  Calhoun

300

The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States

What is Dred Scott (or Scott v. Sandford)

300
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg
300

What was a type of tenant farming that developed during Reconstruction to replace slave labor?

What is Sharecropping?

400

The treaty that effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

400

This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the Northeast - as well as Northern advantages when civil war would break out.

What are railroads

400

The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, meant to satisfy pro-slavery advocates.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act

400
The Civil War event that makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare
What are the Draft Riots in NYC
400

What laws were passed after the end of Reconstruction institutionalizing racial segregation and discrimination in the South.

What are Jim Crow laws?

500

Who is the President largely credited with making "Manifest Destiny" a reality by 1848?

Who is James Polk

500

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel describing the brutalities of slavery, heightened calls for limiting the spread of slavery or abolition.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin

500

What party formed in the 1850s in the aftermath of "Bleeding Kansas" and with the promise to stop the spread of slavery.

What is the Republican Party

500

Which order by President Lincoln was designed to discourage foreign assistance to the Confederates, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war?

What is the Emancipation Proclamation

500

What signified the end of Reconstruction, when the federal government pulled troops out of the South?

What is the Compromise of 1877.

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