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What was the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent from sea to sea?
What was Manifest Destiny?
What act in 1820 was used as a temporary solution for the larger issue of slavery as the nation expanded westward?
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What major war over slavery and states’ rights resulted with the North ultimately victorious?
What was the Civil War?
What Supreme Court case denied citizenship to African Americans and further inflamed tensions over slavery?
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in a major transfer of land (including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico) from Mexico to the U.S?
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What was the conflict in 1846 that resulted in the U.S. gaining vast territories in the Southwest?
What was the Mexican-American War?
What 1854 act allowed for popular sovereignty of the issue of slavery and led to violence and further division?
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What Amendment secured voting rights for Black men, but didn’t guarantee full realization of those rights?
What was the 15th Amendment?
What was the period of violent conflict in the Kansas Territory in the mid-1850s, stemming from the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854?
What was Bleeding Kansas?
What Amendment defines U.S. citizenship as encompassing all persons born or naturalized in the United States, effectively granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people?
What was the 14th Amendment?
What was the set of legislative measures aimed at easing tensions between free and slave states after the Mexican-American War?
What was the Compromise of 1850?