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

This became the justification behind Manifest Destiny and the takeover of Native and Mexican land.

What is God given right, Racial, Cultural and Political Supeirority

100

A key battle ending in a draw but ended foreign support for the Confederacy. Must name the battle and which foreign country would have supported the Confederacy

Antienam and the U.K/Brittish

100
The use of the Underground Railroad was in direct conflict with what law passed by the United States.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
100
This attack by the South is considered the beginning of the Civil War.
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter
100

What are 2 examples of Southern Resistance to reconstruction

The use of the KKK, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, the Grandfather Clause and Segregation to limit African-American's new rights

200
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
200
A larger population, army, amount of resources and industrialization were all advantages for the
What is the Union or the North
200
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
200
The final event the forced the secession by South Carolina and eventually several other southern states.
What is the Election of 1860
200
These made all people born in the US a citizen and gave them the right to Vote.
What are the 14th and 15th Amendments
300
The land given to the United States after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession
300

After the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address, the purpose of the Civil War changed from keeping the Union together to

What is to end slavery

300

Leading senator from South Carolina who was the number 1 defender of slavery and proclaimed it was a "positive good".

Who is John C. Calhoun

300
After South Carolina and 10 other southern states seceded, the purpose of the war was to.
What is keep the Union together
300

President responsible for vetoing most civil rights laws and being impeached by the House in 1868

Who was Andrew Johnson 

400
An example of a new economic opportunity in the new western territories acquired by the United States.
What is Mining
400

A key victory for the Union Army that permanently ended southern attacks into northern territory 

What is the Battle of Gettysburg

400

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

Who is Frederick Douglass or What is Uncle "Tom's Cabin"

400
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
400
This was implemented in the South after the Radical Republicans took control over Reconstructions from President Johnson.
What is Military Reconstruction
500

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

500

Northern politicians who were against President Lincoln and the war.

Who are the Copperheads

500
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
500

A very controversial slavery act that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed states to decide their status based on popular sovereignty 

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act

500
The political group who wanted to impeach President Andrew Johnson and pushed for military occupation of the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans
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