Presidents
Which president is noted for the first steps of Westward Expansion? (Hint: LA Purchase, Lewis and Clark)
Jefferson
What war had to be fought to secure areas like Texas?
Mexican American War
Court case that shot down the Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott vs Sanford
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Who created the easiest plan for Reconstruction
Lincoln
Which president installed John Marshall to the Supreme Court?
Adams
What was the first compromise made regarding slave states and westward expansion?
Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820
White abolitionist that led a slave rebellion on Harpers Ferry VA
John Brown
Who led the Confederate military?
Robert E. Lee
Who takes the office of president after Lincoln is killed?
Johnson
First president to engage us in an official war
Madison
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Maine is free and Missouri is slave
Armed conflict on the streets following Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
First shots of the Civil War?
Ft. Sumter
Name all three of the Civil War civil rights amendments
13th, 14th and 15th
President that creates a policy that begins to establish us as a world power (Hint: Don't mess with Latin America!)
Monroe
The belief that Americans are supposed to conquer all of North America
Manifest Destiny
Election that led to the secession of S.C.
Election of 1860
Military move that brings the war to people's homes
Total War
Who had the harshest plan for Reconstruction?
Congress
President at the beginning of the Civil War
Lincoln
What law passed as a part of the Compromise of 1850 that angered abolitionists?
Fugitive Slave Act
What country/government was formed in the South in response to the Election of 1860
Confederate States of America
Battle that secured the Mississippi for the Union army
Vicksburg
What was the name of the organization created to ensure African Americans had access to their newly acquired rights
Freedmen's Bureau