Westward Expansion
North
South
Civil War Battles
Surprise
100
Definition of Manifest Destiny
What is the idea of spreading from coast to coast based on the idea that it is supported by God.
100
The North is also known as
What is the Union
100
Known as the South
What is the Confederacy (confederate)
100
the year the Civil War started
What is 1861
100
Presidents of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
What the Louisiana Purchase did
What is doubled the size of the US
200
President and political party during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party.
200
the meaning of secession and its cause
To break apart from the union and become independent. It was because the South wanted to preserve slavery and its own way of life.
200
What is the first battle of the Civil War and the winner
What is the Battle of Bull run and the South
200
2 technological advancements in the early 1800s
What is the railroad, steamboat, national Road and Cotton Gin
300
What happened at the Alamo
What is when every American soldier was killed when trying to defend land from the Mexican Army?
300
2 advantages the North had over the South
What is more railroad track, more soldiers, citizens, more food, factories...
300
the full name of the general of the South
Who is Robert E Lee
300
The bloodiest day of the Civil War
What is Antietam?
300
What is the definition of a border state
A state that allows slavery but stayed with the Union during the Civil War.
400
the goal 1 challenge and 1 success from the Lewis and Clark expedition.
What is to find a route to the Pacific Ocean, facing bad weather, wild animals, food scarcity and success with Native American friendship, finding various species of plants and animals, and maps of the new land
400
Describe what the Fugitive Slave is, what it required Northerners to do, and the reaction in the North
What is allowed slaves who escaped slavery to be captured in the North and returned to slavery. The North was required to assist slave owners in finding runaways. The North was furious that they had to help slave owners even though many of them were against slavery.
400
One advantage and one disadvantage for the South in the war
What is fighting on home territory, good leadership and lack of supplies, food, soldiers or railroad track.
400
Approximately how many total casualties were there in the war and what percentage of the population was it?
618,000 about 2%
400
Point out 2 confederate states and 2 Union states on the map
List 3 border states
500
2 ways Manifest Destiny increased conflict in the United States.
What is conflict over land between the Native Americans and American settlers and conflict between the North and South over the expansion of slavery.
500
The name of the North strategy in the war and 2 details of the plan.
What is the Anaconda plan, which would surround the South, cut off food supplies, continue to bombard the South until they surrendered.
500
What is one specific event and details of the event that angered the South leading up to the Civil War
What is Uncle Tom's cabin which encouraged people that slavery was bad, who is John Brown who tried to arm slaves, wilmot proviso
500
4 details on the Gettysburg war (the goal, the result and why it is important)
Where the South tried to attack Union lines in PA to split them in half and attack the north. This was the South's best chance to start winning the war, but they were pushed back by the Union. Total of 50,000 deaths, and when the North started thinking they could win this war. Became the turning point in the war
500
2 causes of the War of 1812
Impressment- Must define it British support of Native American attacks British trade restrictions
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