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vocab
100
Adams-Onis
Under which treaty did the U.S receive the Oregon territory?
100
Because The Union did not want anymore slavery but, The Confederate did want it to stay.
Why did the Civil War occur?
100
600,000
About how many lives were lost in the American Civil War?
100
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is manifest destiny
100
a cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something.
What does eureka mean?
200
The development of revivalism
The term "burned over district" came from
200
It took place in 1861 through1865
When did the Civil war take place?
200
may 9th, 1865
when did the civil war end
200
The phrase was first employed by John L. O'Sullivan in an article on the annexation of Texas published in the July-August 1845 edition of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, which he edited
who came up with the term manifest destiny?
200
to take in and understand fully.
What does assimilate mean?
300
Prohibiting former Mexican territory states to have slavery
The Wilmot Proviso attempted to address slavery in what way?
300
They were sent on transportion carts
How did African Americans get to the Union battle field?
300
the confederates
who surrendered the war
300
The term manifest destiny originated in the 1840s.
when was manifest destiny created?
300
The Dawes Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
What is the Dawes act?
400
There would be no restriction in the spread of slavery in the west
What was a major issue in the decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford?
400
Battle of Gettysburg
Were was the first battle taken place?
400
Abraham Lincoln
who was elected president in 1860?
400
Some Americans were opposed to manifest destiny because other nations (Mexico & Great Britain) claimed the land and because they felt an expansive nation would be too large to govern.
why did people oppose manifest destiny?
400
the action of becoming larger or more extensive.
What is expansion?
500
The Seneca Falls Convention
The first declaration of women's rights was held where?
500
1863
What year was the first battle of the Civil War take place?
500
an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
500
They liked the idea of expansion to the pacific ocean.
why did people support manifest destiny?
500
a region where wheat is the chief agricultural product.
What is a wheat belt?
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