Causes of the Civil War
Civil War
Reconstruction
Migration
Miscellaneous
100

The concept that if the number of slave and free states were equal, slavery would continue to be compromised over. 

What is the balance of power? 

100

An example of a total war campaign, waged from Atlanta to Savannah in Georgia

What is Sherman's March to the Sea

100

Abolished slavery in the United States

What is the 13th Amendment?

100

The act of moving from one place to live in another

What is migration?

100
The Emancipation Proclamation did not abolish slavery in these states, who stayed loyal to the Union. 

What are border states? 

200

The event that caused the first round of secession 

What is the election of 1860?

200
The term for states that had slavery but did not secede

What are border states?

200

These series of laws attempted to reestablish the conditions of slavery

What are Black Codes?

200

Trends that influenced people to leave one place or be attracted to another place

What are push and pull factors?

200
The Civil War occurred "Across Five Aprils" between these years. 
What is 1861 to 1865?
300

This set of laws resulted when California applied to join the Union as a free state, permanently upsetting the balance of power 

What is the Compromise of 1850?

300

Location of the surrender of General Robert E Lee, this signaled the end of the Civil War

What is Appomattox Courthouse?

300

Sharecroppers were ultimately tied to the places they worked because of this.

What is crop liens OR debt to the landowners?

300

Term for people who migrated to the US then back to their country of origin, often multiple times.

What are birds of passage?

300
Under the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only exception to migration restrictions was people of this profession and their families

Who were merchants? 

400

The river Mexico claimed as Texas' border

What is the Nueces River
400

Location of the Battle of Antietam; by invading this border state, Gen Robert E Lee hoped to gain foreign allies, threaten the Union Capitol and get the state to join the Confederacy

What is Maryland?

400

Literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses all limited the power of this amendment

What is the 15th Amendment?

400

Angel Island was built to process claims of citizenship after this natural disaster destroyed immigration and birth records

What was the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1906)?

400

The result of Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial.

What is not guilty (by one vote)? 

500

The name for the territory the United States took as a result of the Mexican American War

What is the Mexican Cession?

500
Cotton diplomacy was unsuccessful because Great Britain began to import cotton mainly from this country (one of its colonies at the time)

What is India?

500

The 14th Amendment established this qualification for citizenship

What is birthright citizenship?

500

Migrants through Ellis Island would have their eyelids checked using this tool.

What is a buttonhook?

500

According to the Constitution, a candidate must win the electoral vote by this mathematical term 

What is a majority?

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