War
VOCAB: A state that does not allow slavery
Free state
VOCAB: When fighting begins between 2 groups in the same country:
Civil War
VOCAB: Americans believed in ________, or that the US would stretch from "sea to sea" (east to west)
Manifest Destiny
VOCAB: A forty-niner is:
Someone who traveled to California for gold mining
VOCAB: One willingly working for free
Volunteer
Name 2 states the US gained after the Mexican-American War
Arizona/California/Utah/Nevada/Texas
VOCAB: Freedom; or ________
Emancipation
The home front describes:
The people who are not in the military, but live in a country at war
The Dred Scott ruling decided that all slaves were:
property
________ is the joining of one territory onto a nation.
Annexation
The names the north and south used during the Civil War were the _______ and the ________
Union, Confederate
The ___________ was the statement made that told all states to free their slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
VOCAB: Boom-towns grew quickly in population, but would drop just as fast once the gold ran out, and become __________
Ghost towns
_________ Lee led the southern troops
Robert E.
Texas is referred to as The ____________ State.
Lone Star
"Remember the ________!" was shouted during the Mexican-American War as the US troops attacked the Mexican troops
Alamo
The Missouri Compromise did what to Missouri and Maine?
Made Missouri a slave state and made Maine a free state
The continental divide is a set of mountains called:
The rocky Mountains
General ________ Grant led the northern troops
Ulysses S.
One other trail besides Oregon was:
California/Old Spanish/Santa Fe/Mormon Trail
Gettysburg was the battle that turned the tides of War. Why was it so important?
the Union began to win/the south started to lose
__________ was a man who tried to lead an uprising against slavery, but was caught and hanged. The north called him a hero, the south called him violent
The Virginia was an iron plated ship that could:
destroy wooden ships by ramming them
Sam Houston led an army in which war?
The Mexican-American War
The Oregon Trail begins in __________, Missouri
Independence