Westward Expansion
The Civil War
Abolition Movement
Causes of Civil War
Reconstruction
100

The idea that justified American expansion westward as something that was inevitable

What is Manifest Destiny 

100
A larger population, army, amount of resources and industrialization were all advantages for the
What is the Union or the North
100
An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by aiding in the escape of slaves to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad or Harriet Tubman
100
The final event the forced the secession by South Carolina and eventually several other southern states.
What is the Election of 1860
100
These made all people born in the US a citizen and gave them the right to Vote.
What are the 14th and 15th Amendments
200

The discovery of this in California inspired a mass migration of Americans to the West. 

What is gold

200

This first document changed the purpose of the war for the Union. This second document sought to make the first document permanent. 

What is the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment 

200
The person who was the number 1 defender of slavery and proclaimed it was a "positive good".
Who is John C. Calhoun
200
After South Carolina and 10 other southern states seceded, the purpose of the war was to.
What is keep the Union together
200

This first term is a northerner who came down South to help further the cause of Reconstruction. 

This second term is a southerner who profited from Reconstruction 

What are carpetbaggers and scalawags 

300

The official name for the purchase of land along the U.S.-Mexico border? Mostly in present day Arizona

What is the Gadsden Purchase? 

300

Two advantages the South had in the Civil War 

What are trained officers, and defensive war

300

An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by using moral arguments to challenge it.

Who is William Lloyd Garrison or What is Uncle "Tom's Cabin"

300
The platform of the Republican Party in the Election of 1860 which focused on outlawing the expansion of slavery into new territories in the West.
What is the Free Soil Platform
300

This government entity was created to help successfully transition former slaves into their new lives

What is the Freedmen's Bureau? 

400
An ideas used in the Compromise of 1850, Kansas and Nebraska that allowed citizens in those territories to vote and decide if they wanted to accept or prohibit slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty
400

A speech by President Lincoln that reaffirmed the new purpose of the war and encouraged Americans the war was needed to fulfill Americas Democratic ideals.

What is the Gettysburg Address

400
An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by using violence against the supporters of slavery.
Who is John Brown or What is the Attack on Harper's Ferry
400
A very controversial slavery compromise that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed a State north of the 36,30 line to become a slave territory.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
The political group who wanted to impeach President Andrew Johnson and pushed for military occupation of the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans
500

This proposed law would have made slavery completely illegal in all new territories gained from the Mexican-American War. 

What is the Wilmot Proviso? 

500
Northern politicians who were against President Lincoln and the war.
Who are the Copperheads
500
The use of the Underground Railroad was in direct conflict with what law passed by the United States.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
500

This Supreme Court decision declared free blacks were not citizens of the United States and could not sue for freedom. 

What is the Dred Scott Decision

500

The occupation many freed blacks were forced into due to the Black codes and Southern discrimination. 

What is sharecropping? 

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