Manifest Destiny & Expansion
This slogan referred to the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain.
What is "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"?
This 1852 novel increased Northern opposition to slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
He was president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This 1865 amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These Southern laws restricted the rights of freedmen after the war.
What are Black Codes?
This war resulted in the U.S. gaining California and the Southwest.
California and the Southwest.What is the Mexican-American War?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision denied citizenship to African Americans.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This 1863 battle was the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This agency helped freed slaves adjust to freedom.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This white supremacist group used violence to suppress Black voters.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Violence broke out here over slavery after the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
Lincoln issued this after Antietam, shifting the war’s moral purpose.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This president was impeached during Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This 1896 case later upheld segregation laws (though post-Unit 5).
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This idea justified U.S. expansion westward across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This failed 1859 raid attempted to start a slave uprising.
What is John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry?
This general led the Union to victory and later became president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This act divided the South into military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This informal deal ended Reconstruction in 1877.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1860 event led to Southern secession.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This was the official end of the Civil War.
What is Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House?
This 1870 amendment guaranteed Black male suffrage.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This system of farming trapped many African Americans in debt.
What is sharecropping?