The US and the World
Increased Sectionalism
Compromise/Conflict
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
100

This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe greatly fueled northern abolitionism in the years leading up to the Civil War.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin

100

This act passed in 1854 overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed territories to vote on the slavery issue.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

100
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
100

The name for those in Congress who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment

Who are Radical Republicans

200

This Civil War-era law gave settlers 160 acres of free land in the west if they were willing to settle there

What is the Homestead Act

200
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
Who is John Brown
200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
200
The strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
200

Collectively called the "Civil War Amendments" these 3 amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights to former slaves. 

What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

300

This American state was once an independent republic that broke away from Mexico.

What is Texas

300

Harriet Tubman worked as a "conductor" on this, where she helped countless slaves escape to freedom.

What is the Underground Railroad

300
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
300

The Northern victory for the Union that kept the British out of the war on behalf of the South and allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

What is Antietam

300

System of tenant farming many former slaves were forced into following the Civil War that closely resembled slavery. 

What is sharecropping

400
Whigs in the Senate rejected this treaty, which effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
400
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war
What are railroads
400
The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
What is enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
400

The Civil War event that exposes the frustrations over economic inequality of conscription

What are the Draft Riots in NYC

400

This ended Reconstruction as federal troops were pulled out of the South in exchange for Rutherford B. Hayes being given the Presidency. 

Compromise of 1877

500

The document that asserted that slavery should not exist in any lands gained in the Mexican Cession. It intensified the national debate over slavery.

What is the Wilmot Proviso

500
The three main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons
500

Three major events that led to the Civil War

What is Bleeding Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, and the formation of the Republican Party, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Case, Harper's Ferry Raids, etc.

500

Issued in 1863, this changed the focus of the war and freed all slaves in the states in open rebellion.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation

500

Three pieces of evidence supporting the claim that Reconstruction was a time of conflict over new definitions of citizenship

What are: Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, the split in the Women's Rights movement, Hiram Revels, Poll taxes, Literacy tests, Civil War Amendments

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