A territory acquired by the United States that led to increased debate over slavery and the balance between free and slave states.
What is Texas
100
The last major conflict between whites and Native Americans
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee
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 event the forced the beginning of secession by South Carolina and eventually several other southern states.
What is the Election of 1860
100
A larger population, more resources and industrialization was an advantage of which side during the Civil War.
What is the Union (North)
200
The land given to the United States after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession
200
An attempt to Americanize Indians by attempting to civilize them by turning them into small farmers who believed in Christianity and practiced a Democracy
What is the Dawes Act
200
The person who was the number 1 defender of slavery and proclaimed it was a positive good.
Who is John C. Calhoun
200
A slavery compromise that set a dividing line of 36,30 between free and slave territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise
200
This became the new purpose of the war after the Emancipation of Proclamation.
What is To End Slavery
300
A proposal to prohibit slavery in the newly acquired Mexican Cession land that was denied by Congress due to Southern resistance.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
300
A celebration and form of resistance by Native Americans of the return of the Buffalo and the demise of white people.
What is the Ghost Dance
300
An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by using fierce arguments to challenge it.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison or What is Uncle "Tom's Cabin"
300
A new political party formed in the 1850's leading up to the Civil War who wanted to prohibit the expansion of slavery into new territories.
Who are the Republicans
300
A key victory for the Union army that gave them control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederate army in half.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg
400
An ideas used in the Compromise of 1850 that allowed citizens in new territories vote and decide if they wanted to accept or prohibit slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty
400
This included Relocation, Concentration and Elimination
What is Government Policy toward Native Americans
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 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 became the justification behind Manifest Destiny and the takeover of Native and Mexican land.
What is Racial and Cultural Supeirority
500
An example of a violation of a treaty with Indians by the United States and violent conflicts over valuable land.
What is the Sioux War or Sand Creek Massacre
500
The belief that a State could ignore a Federal law if they did not agree with it. Used as one of the Southern arguments in favor of slavery
What is Nullification
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 and Segregation to limit African-American's new rights included in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.