Expansion
What 1845 phrase justified U.S. expansion across the continent as God’s will?
Manifest Destiny
The 1850 law requiring citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This territory became a major political issue after it was annexed in 1845, helping spark the Mexican–American War.
What is Texas?
The 1852 novel that increased Northern resistance to slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
This agency aided formerly enslaved people with schools and resources.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The 1846–1848 war that resulted in the U.S. gaining California and the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This concept argued that voters of a territory should decide on slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The 1863 declaration that freed enslaved people in rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Laws in Southern states that restricted the rights of freedmen.
What are Black Codes?
The treaty that ended the Mexican–American War?
What is the Treat of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Violent conflict in Kansas between pro‑ and anti‑slavery groups.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
The turning-point battle of 1863, ending Lee’s invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
What legislation protected the citizenship and protection of African Americans? (Hint: it was vetoed by Johnson, but overridden by Congress)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This policy suggested banning slavery in land gained from Mexico but never passed.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
What Supreme Court case ruled Congress could not ban slavery in the territories?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The Union general who led the “March to the Sea."
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
What economic system kept many freed people tied to the land and in debt?
What is sharecropping?