Manifest Destiny
Civil War
Reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws
Miscellaneous
100
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
A person who worked to end slavery.
What is an Abolitionist
100
Laws that were passed to limit African-American freedoms in the South after the Civil War
What is sharecropping
100
laws that were passed to limit African-American freedoms in the South after the Civil War
What are black codes
100
A religious revival movement that spread across the US during the first half of the 1800s.
What is the Second Great Awakening
200
James K. Polk in Manifest Destiny & Mexican-American War. James K. Polk (1795–1849) was the 11th President of the United States. His name is perhaps most closely associated with Manifest Destiny, as the term was coined by a fellow Democrat in 1843, the year before he began his presidency.
What is the leader of Manifest Destiny
200
A change to the Constitution (1865) that abolished slavery in US (made it illegal)
What is the 13th Amendment
200
Northern Republicans who went to the South to make $$$ and rebuild
What are carpetbaggers
200
Forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places
What is segregation
200
1820 agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and banned slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 30 36'N latitude
What is the Missouri Compromise
300
$15 million deal between the US (Jefferson) and France (Napoleon); resulted in doubling the size of the United States and giving the U.S. control of the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans
What is the Louisiana Purchase
300
A change to the Constitution (1868) granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law
What is the 14th Amendment
300
Created in 1865 by congress; provided support for the poor in the South, especially education
What is Freedman's Bureau
300
Charging money in order to vote; used to prevent African-Americans from voting
What is poll tax
300
Republican who was elected President in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
400
A change to the Constitution (1870) declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was a slave
What is the 15th Amendment
400
Lincoln's vice president, was impeached because Congress thought he was abusing his power
Who is Andrew Johnson
400
A group of white Southerners who intimidated and used violence to prevent African Americans from achieving equality in the South after the Civil War
What are the Ku Klux Klan
400
Speech by President Lincoln in which he dedicated a national cemetery in Gettysburg and reaffirmed the ideas for which the Union was fighting.
What is the Gettysburg Address
500
In 1849 the large migration of people to the west in search of gold
What is the Gold Rush
500
A special order by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declaring slaves in Confederate sates to be free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
500
White Southern Republicans who supported the North during the war
What is a Scalawag
500
A series of state laws passed after 1877 that segregated African Americans and whites; some placed requirements on African Americans prior to voting
What are Jim Crow Laws
500
Union general who in the fall of 1864 led Union troops on a 400- mile March of destruction through Georgia and South Carolina.
Who is William Sherman
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