Civil War
Government only being allowed to use its power if given permission to do so by the people is known as ...
Popular Sovereignty
Who won the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
The laws that were intended to separate black and white in public places were known as...
Jim Crow Laws
Factors that describe the reasons why people might leave or immigrate to the United States, including poverty, famine are called...
Push Factors
Theory that suggests many cultures are being incorporated and blended into ONE AMERICAN identity.
Melting Pot Theory
The agreement reached by Congress that added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep the number of each equal was known as...
Missouri Compromise
The first state to secede, or break away from the Union was ..
South Carolina
This Constitutional Amendment that ended slavery was ..
13th
Factors that attract or motivate people to leave one country and go to the United States are called ..
Pull Factors
The act of maintaining cultural traditions from the present to the future is called..
Cultural Preservation
The proposal of division of the large midwest region be divided into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska that would repeal the Missouri Compromise and let settlers in each territory decide on the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty is known as the..
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Supreme Court declared slaves had no claim to freedom, were property rather than citizens, and were not eligible to file lawsuits in federal court was known as...
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Constitutional Amendment that gave citizenship and due process under the law was..
14th
The port of immigration that is in New York is called...
Ellis Island
The process by which a people give up their heritage, customs, and language in order to fit in with another group
Assimilation
Before the Civil War began, the North and South had very differing opinions on slavery, and political and economic views. This rivalry or tension that developed between people who were loyal to their section or region of the country is known as....
sectionalism
Jefferson Davis was the President of...
The Confederacy
The Constitutional Amendment that said the right to vote cannot be denied by race, color, or previous servitude was..
15th
The port of immigration that is in San Francisco is called...
Angel Island
Anti immigrant attitudes with a belief that American ideas / citizens are better than foreigners is called..
Nativism
This law admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
Compromise of 1850
The name of the laws designed to control and limit the political, social, and economic opportunities of African Americans, forcing them to work under conditions not very different from slavery.
Black Codes
What was the name of the Supreme Court Case that ruled "separate but equal for white and colored races" was constitutional?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Theory that says immigrant groups mix into American culture, but maintain characteristics of their own cultural identity is called..
Salad Bowl Theory
Most of the immigrants coming to the United States came from what continent?
Europe