Westward Expansion
The Civil War
Abolition Movement
Causes of Civil War
Reconstruction
100
A territory annexed by the United States that led to increased debate over slavery because it would upset the balance between Free and Slave states.
What is Texas
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 land given to the United States after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession
200
After the Emancipation Proclamation, the purpose of the Civil War changed from keeping the Union together to
What is to end slavery
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

Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.

What are Scalawags

300
An example of a new economic opportunity in the new western territories acquired by the United States.
What is Mining
300
A key victory for the Union Army that gave them control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg
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

Political party which focused on outlawing the expansion of slavery into new territories in the West.

What is the Free Soil Party

300

What ended Reconstruction? Include the event & President. 

What is the Compromise of 1877 under Hayes

400

An idea 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

American diplomat who coined the term "Manifest Destiny" 

Who is John L. O'Sullivan

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 in 1850.

What is the Fugitive Slave Law

500
This attack by the South is considered the beginning of the Civil War.
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter
500
The use of the KKK, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, the Grandfather Clause and Segregation to limit African-American's new rights included in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
What is Southern Resistance
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