APUSH Unit 5 Jeopardy

Westward Expansion

100

This idea represented the belief in America's responsibility to expand westward.

Manifest destiny

200

This president annexed Texas into the United States.

John Tyler

300

This group founded the religious state of Deseret in the American west.

Mormons

400

This river served as the border for Texas and Mexico, at least in Mexico's opinion.

Nueces River

500

The final stake in the Transcontinental railroad was struck here in May of 1869.

Promontory Point, Utah

Failure of Compromise

100

This other name for the compromise of 1820 attempted to settle the issue of slavery in the United States.

Missouri Compromise

200

Many historians call this intensification of violence in the territories west of the Missouri River a key precursor to the Civil War.

Bleeding Kansas

300

This legislator crafted much of the compromise of 1850 before his death in 1852. 

Henry Clay

400

This horrific incident on the floor of the United States senate reflected increasingly violent political debates over slavery in 1856.

Sumner-Brooks incident

500

This last ditch effort to save the Union was roundly rejected for its willingness to enshrine protections for slavery into the U.S. Constitution. 

Crittenden Compromise

The Civil War

100

The shelling of this Union fort in South Carolina is generally marked as the beginning of the Civil War

Fort Sumter

200

This battle, attended by many curious onlookers from Washington, D.C. and its surrounding townships proved the war would not be over quickly. 

First battle of Bull Run

300

These two ships dueled in a new form of naval warfare, as the Confederates and Union contested the high seas. 

Merrimack, Monitor.

400

Serving as the Union commanding officer for much of the early phase of the war, this general's unwillingness to commit to decisive action against Lee's army of Northern Virginia saw him replaced in November of 1863. 

George McClellan

500

General Sherman promised this in Special Field Order No. 15 to African Americans as he cut across the south in his "march to the sea". 

40 acres and a mule

Reconstruction

100

This amendment secured the right to vote for all men, above the age of 21, in 1870.

15th Amendment

200

This federal agency, from 1865-1872, provided clothing, provisions, education, and legal counsel to newly freed African Americans. 

Freedman's Bureau

300

This coalition of Republicans aimed to execute wide-ranging, structural reforms of the whole occupied South, up to and including land reform. 

Radical Republicans

400

While many may have had good intentions, this group of Northern bureaucrats, lawyers, preachers, and opportunists were grouped derisively by Southerners into this term. 

"Carpetbaggers"

500

This hate group, along with the Ku Klux Klan, began terrorizing and suppressing African American voters as soon as 1867. 

Knights of the White Camelia

Civil War Context

100

In 1861, Mexico was fully distracted from the Civil War due to an invasion by this European power.

France

200

This diplomatic kerfuffle led to Lincoln facing wide condemnation from his party, but ultimately kept relations with Great Britain amicable.

Trent Affair

300

This state was created in 1861 when an autonomous region declared itself for the Union.

West Virginia

400

By the spring of 1865, the writing was on the wall for this man who served as president of the Confederacy for its lifespan. 

Jefferson Davis

500

This battle during the siege of Petersburg was precipitated by a large munitions explosion, trying to break the trench warfare that had developed during the spring of 1865.

Battle of the Crater