Manifest Destiny
This land acquisition in 1803 doubled the size of the United States and paved the way for westward expansion.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Replaced the Missouri Compromise; included a stronger Fugitive Slave Law and CA entering the Union as a free state
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This event marked the beginning of the Civil War on April 12, 1861.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This law passed in 1862 gave contracts to railroad companies to build the western portion of the transcontinental railroad
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
This legislation provided 160 acres to settlers willing to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
Preston Brooks beat this fellow Senator with a gold cane after an argument regarding slavery between his uncle and this senator.
Issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, this document declared all slaves in Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This government agency was created in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Belief that native-born Americans are superior to immigrants, deserving of more opportunities
What is Nativism?
This president was an expansionist and a Democrat. He made gaining CA and OR a part of his campaign promises.
Who is James K. Polk?
This piece of literature fueled abolitionist sentiment by depicting conditions of slavery in the Upper and Deep South
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, fought on September 17, 1862.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This set of laws passed in the South restricted the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
What is the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
This 1842 treaty resolved border disputes between the United States and British Canada, particularly in Maine and the Great Lakes region.
This congressional bill to prohibit slavery from any land gained from the war; passed in the House of Representatives but not in the Senate
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This argument claimed that slavery was a "necessary evil" due to a need for ideological justification for slavery
What is the "Positive Good"?
The Civil War effectively ended when this Confederate general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This agreement ended Reconstruction in 1877 by withdrawing federal troops from the South in exchange for resolving the disputed 1876 presidential election.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This former (fired) general ran against Lincoln in the Election of 1864
Who was McClellan?
This group had a moral objection to fighting war to gain territory and expand country.
Who were the Conscience Whigs?
What was the Freeport Doctrine?
What was the Crittenden Compromise?
This group of Southerners sided with Republicans and Reconstruction efforts
Who were Scalawags?
This treaty passed in 1851 between Native Americans and the United States government promised safe passage for settlers moving West in exchange for territorial sovereignty
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?