Expansionism
The West
Reconstruction
100
This was the prominent issue in national politics in the 1840s.
What is Westward Expansion
100
The term used to describe the movement to overspread the continent from sea to sea.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
These laws established separate segregated facilities for blacks and whites
What is Jim Crow Laws
200
This war was fought to acquire California, New Mexico, and disputed territory along Texas' southern and western borders
What is the Mexican American War
200
This act provided 160 acres of free land to any head of household who would settle on it and improve it over a period of five years
What is the Homestead Act
200
They were the Northerners who had come south to take high positions within the Reconstruction governments of Southern states
Who were scalawags
300
Along with the Homestead act this innovation did the most to stimulate rapid western settlement?
What is the RRs
300
This organization provided the first social outlet for homesteaders?
What is The Grange
300
This system put tenant farmers and poor independent farmers into deep levels of debt to large landowners and merchants
What is sharecropping
400
The demand for the annexation of all of the Oregon country was supported with this slogan.
What is "Fifty-four forty or fight"
400
This historian argued that the frontier shaped America by stimulating individualism and democracy
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner
400
In order to regain admission to the Union most of the states of the former confederacy were required to ratify this amendment
What is the 14th Amendment
500
This treaty settled the dispute over the Oregon boundary.
What is the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842
500
Native Americans were victorious with this battle
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn
500
Andrew Johnson was impeached and nearly removed from office due to violating this act
What is The Tenure of Office Act (by removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton)
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