Causes of the Civil War
This act allowed territories to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty, inflaming tensions.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This South Carolina fort was the site of the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
(What is the 13th Amendment?)
This efficient steel-making process allowed for mass production of steel.
(What is the Bessemer process?)
This precious metal discovery in 1848 sparked a mass migration westward.
(What is Gold?)
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel that helped shape public opinion in the North.
(What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?)
A bloody stalemate near Sharpsburg, Maryland, with the highest casualty count of the war.
What is Antietam?
This amendment guaranteed citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States.
(What is the 14th Amendment?)
This vast network facilitated the movement of goods and people across the continent.
(What is the transcontinental railroad
The promise of fertile land for farming drew many settlers to the Great Plains, particularly this crop.
(What is Wheat?)
This compromise attempted to appease the South by allowing slave-catchers to capture escaped slaves in free states.
(What is the Fugitive Slave Act?)
General Ulysses S. Grant's decisive victory over Robert E. Lee, considered a turning point in the war.
What is Vicksburg?
This amendment prohibited states from denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
(What is the 15th Amendment?)
These powerful businessmen consolidated control of industries, often using ruthless tactics.
(Who are the Robber Barons?)
This 1862 incentive offered free land for those willing to settle and cultivate it.
What is The Homestead Act
This Supreme Court case declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and heightened sectional tensions.
(What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?)
The surrender of the Confederate army at this Virginia courthouse effectively ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This federal agency provided food, medical aid, and education to freedmen during Reconstruction.
(What is the Freedmen's Bureau?)
This economic system emphasizes competition and limited government intervention.
(What is Laissez-faire Capitalism?)
These settlers sought religious freedom in the vast expanse of the West.
(Who are Mormons?)
Fought between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers, this violent period highlighted the national divide.
(What is Bleeding Kansas?)
This document freed slaves in Confederate states still in rebellion, issued by President Lincoln in 1863.
(What is the Emancipation Proclamation?)
This system emerged in the South, where African Americans worked on land owned by whites in exchange for a share of the crops.
(What is Sharecropping?)
This management strategy aimed to increase efficiency and output by breaking down production into smaller, specialized tasks.
(What is the Assembly Line?)
This 19th-century belief held that the United States had a divinely ordained right to expand westward across the continent.
(What is Manifest Destiny?)