The Age of Reform
Westward Expansion
The Union in Peril
The Civil War
Reconstruction
100
This term refers to abstaining from drinking.
Temperance
100
This term refers to the idea that Americans had a God-given right to expand Westward.
Manifest Destiny
100
This man led a famous raid on Harper’s Ferry.
John Brown
100
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.
Gettysburg
100
This president devised the 10% plan.
Abraham Lincoln
200
This is the town in New York where an important women’s rights convention was held.
Seneca Falls
200
This man was president during the Mexican American War.
James K. Polk
200
This act allowed for popular sovereignty to determine the status of slavery in the western territories.
The Kansas Nebraska Act
200
This amendment declared slavery illegal in the United States.
The 13th Amendment
200
This term refers to Republicans who went South after the War.
Carpetbaggers
300
These two men led slave revolts against Southern whites in antebellum America.
Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner
300
Americans’ desire to have this territory, which extended into present day Canada, gave rise to the phrase “54-40 or fight!”
Oregon Territory
300
This Supreme Court decision declared that African-Americans could not be citizens.
Dred Scott
300
During this speech, Lincoln proclaimed that the Civil War would be a “new birth of freedom” for the United States of America.
The Gettysburg Address
300
This term refers to shifting blame to a political opponent in order to win an election.
Waving the Bloody Shirt
400
This term refers to the transference of a woman’s property to her new husband.
Coverture
400
This party lost half of its members on its way West, and some of them engaged in cannibalism.
The Donner Party
400
These state laws led Southerners to accuse Northerners of acting unconstitutionally.
The Personal Liberty Laws
400
This was name of the regiment from Massachusetts that composed entirely of black volunteers (except for the commanding officer).
The 54th Massachusetts
400
This man founded the KKK.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
500
This variety of literature, which celebrated nature and the importance of living a simple life, was popularized by Henry David Thoreau.
Transcendentalism
500
This act of legislation was meant to subordinate Chinese immigrants to whites in Gold Rush California.
Foreign Miners Tax
500
This man won the election of 1860
Abe Lincoln
500
This was the name of the Act that gave settlers in the West 160 acres for “improving” the land.
The Homestead Act
500
This man won the election of 1876 and ended Reconstruction.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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