This was the concept of U.S. territorial expansion westward to the Pacific Ocean seen as a divine right.
What is manifest destiny?
100
This war ended in 1848 and resulted in the U.S. gaining present day California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming for 15 million dollars.
What was the War with Mexico?
100
Jefferson Davis.
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
100
He began his march from Atlanta to Savannah burning buildings, destroying rail lines, setting fire to factories, and demolishing bridges.
What was Sherman's March to the Sea?
100
Members of the Republican Party who favored a much tougher stance with former Confederate States who wanted to reenter the Union.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
200
Abolitionsim, Temperance, the 2nd Great Awakening, Public Schools, Women's Rights, Transcendentalism
What were the names of some of the Reform Movements in the 1800s?
200
The attempt my South Carolina led by John C. Calhoun to claim the right to nullify (cancel out) federal laws that they say violate the U.S. Constituiton.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
200
Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman
Who were Union Generals?
200
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at this location.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
200
Ended Slavery, granted African Americans citizenship, guaranteed African Americans the right to vote in electionsl.
What were the Civil War Amendments and the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments?
300
Invented the Cotton Gin and developed interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
An agreement that California would be admitted to the Union as a Free State, the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia would be restricted, and the Fugitive Slave Law would be enforced.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
300
Issued by President Lincoln, it only freed the slaves in the Confederacy and committed the Union to ending slavery.
What was the Emancipation of Proclamation?
300
Proved to be the bloodiest single day of the war.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
300
Under this plan, the South was divided into 5 military districts.
What was Radical Reconstruction?
400
Known as the 1st "Common Man's President" and for forcing the Native Americans to move West on the Trail of Tears.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
400
Agreement in 1820 which included the admission of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to maintain the balance of free and slave states.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
400
The Bloodiest Battle during the American Civil War. It is also credited as the turning point of the war against the confederacy.
What was Gettysburg?
400
In 1854 Stephen A. Douglas introduced this to the Senate, to allow states to enter the Union with or without slavery based on the vote of the people who live in that territory (popular sovereignty).
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
400
In an effort to helped freed slaves, Congress created this department which provided clothes, medical attention, food, and education to African Americans.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
A convention held in New York in 1848 that was the first women's rights convention and was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
A group of people who wanted to outlaw slavery.
Who were the abolitionists?
500
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Who were Confederate Generals?
500
In terms of resources, this region had a larger population, more railroads, and more industry/factories.
What is the North?
500
This plan allowed Southern States to quickly renter the Union and ratify the 13th Amendment.