What is sectionalism?
Loyalty to one region.
What was Manifest Destiny?
Belief in westward expansion.
What law made it a crime to help runaway slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act.
How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?
Territories voted on slavery.
What principle from the Declaration of Independence did President Lincoln base the Emancipation Proclamation?
Right to liberty.
What was the “spoils system?”
Giving jobs to supporters.
Why was the battle of the Alamo important to the independence of Texas?
Inspired Texans to fight.
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What was the North’s original goal in the Civil War?
Preserve the Union.
Why was the Gettysburg Address given by President Lincoln?
Honor soldiers at Gettysburg.
What was Andrew Jackson’s view on the Second Bank of the United States?
He opposed the Bank.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
First women’s rights convention.
What contribution did Harriet Tubman make to the antislavery movement.
Helped enslaved people escape.
What event started the Civil War?
Fort Sumter.
What was the strategy of total war adopted by the Union during Sherman’s March?
Destroy Southern resources.
What Act authorized the removal of Native Americans to Indian Country in the west?
Indian Removal Act.
What affect did Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin have on the South?
Increased cotton and slavery.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
Enslaved people not citizens.
What happened at the First Battle of Bull Run?
Confederacy won.
Where was the final surrender of the Confederacy of the Civil War?
Appomattox Court House.
What was the “Trail of Tears?”
Forced Native American relocation.
Who invented Morse Code for the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
What were John Brown’s abolitionist activities in the years leading up to the Civil War?
Raid on Harpers Ferry.
Which Union victory allowed Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation?
Antietam.
What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Help former enslaved people.