Expansion and Sectional Conflict
This belief justified U.S. expansion across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1854 law repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
First major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Agency created to assist formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This war (1846–1848) added vast territory to the U.S.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Violent conflict in Kansas over slavery became known as this.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This Union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
White supremacist group that used violence during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This agreement admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
This 1863 battle marked a turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This amendment protected voting rights for Black men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This African American leader advocated for education and equality.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This concept allowed settlers to decide on slavery in their territory.
What is popular sovereignty?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This order freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These laws in the South restricted freedoms of formerly enslaved people.
What are Black Codes?
These laws enforced racial segregation after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This 1820 line was later challenged by westward expansion debates.
What is the Missouri Compromise line?
This 1860 election led directly to Southern secession.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1865 surrender effectively ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This informal system replaced slavery with debt-based labor.
What is sharecropping?
This 1877 agreement ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?