Movin' West
Term for the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Law that allowed states to vote on slavery in new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
President of the Confederate States.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Laws that restricted the rights of freedmen in the South.
What are Black Codes?
Organization that used violence to oppose Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
War with Mexico that followed the annexation of Texas.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Novel that turned public opinion in the North against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Battle considered the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Supreme Court case that weakened the 14th Amendment.
What is the Slaughterhouse Cases?
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Supreme Court case ruling that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
1863 declaration that freed slaves in Confederate territory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Laws that established segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This purchase completed the contiguous United States.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Violence between pro- and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
General who led the Union army to victory.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Amendment granting Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Compromise that ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The California Gold Rush began in this year.
What is 1849?
Radical abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
Union strategy to blockade and divide the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Government agency that assisted freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Political party that strongly supported Radical Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?