Expansion
Sectionalism
Civil War
Reconstruction
100

A widely held belief  that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God

Manifest Destiny

100

The main industry in the Northern and Southern States

Manufacturing in the Northern States 

Plantation farming in the Southen States

100

The name of the new country created when 11 Southern states left the Union

The Confederate States of America

100

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

Abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights

200

A verb that means to add (an area or region) to a country, state, etc. to take control of (a territory or place)

Annex

200

What Is the idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery?

Popular Sovereignty

200

Lincoln and most Union supporters began the Civil War to preserve the Union, but Lincoln's decision to issue the ____________________ ___________ reframed the purpose of the war and helped prevent the Confederacy from gaining full support from Europe.

Emancipation Proclamation

200

Those who believed that all Black people should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment

Radical Republicans

300

This treaty effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

300

The implementation of popular sovereignty led to violent conflict in this newly created state

Kansas (Bleeding Kansas, 1855-1859)

300

One advantage for the North and the South in Civil War

South: Leaders with more experience, Most battles were on their territory  

North: Large and powerful navy, Controlled banks, manufacturing, and railroads

300

Two pieces of evidence support the claim that although Reconstruction led to some progress for formerly enslaved people, ultimately, it was a failure.

Black Codes, Sharecropping, Birth of the KKK

400

Southern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico

Gadsden Purchase

400

A nativist political party and movement in the United States who believed immigrants were corrupting Northern cities

The Know-Nothing Party

400

The event that gave the final push for Southern states to secede

Election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860

400

Through this system, planters broke up their estates into small units and established on each unit a black or poor white family as tenants.

Sharecropper 

500

Other than Manifest Destiny, what was the cause of Westward expansion?

Desire for access to natural and mineral resources.

500

Other than the Fugitive Slave Act, what was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision regarding California statehood?

The Compromise of 1850?

500

A short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, that later merged into the Republican Party

Free-Soil Movement

500

After this act repealed Reconstruction "ended"

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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