Manifest Destiny
The idea that the United States is destined, by God to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
This man was the Mexican president during the Mexican-American War.
Who was Antonio López de Santa Anna?
This was the main reason for sectional conflict in the United States
What is slavery?
The election of this president was arguably the main start of the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This president is largely associated with Manifest Destiny.
Who is James Polk?
This state's independence was the main issue starting the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
This region was the first to abolish slavery.
What is the North?
This was the Commander-in-chief of the Confederate army
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This agency was meant to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
The major transportation system developed to get people across the country.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
With this, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Known as one of the greatest speeches in the history of the United States, four-and-a-half months after the monumental Union Army had a victory over the Confederate States Army.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
Under this president's reconstruction plan, all land that had been confiscated by the Union Army and distributed to the formerly enslaved people by the army or the Freedmen's Bureau reverted to its prewar owners.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This territory was acquired from the British in 1846.
What is Oregon Country?
This battle ended the Mexican-American War?
What was the battle of Mexico City?
Law that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36º 30' parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
White women opposed this amendment during Reconstruction because it gave African Americans protections before women.
What is the 15th amendment?
This was an agreement between the United States and Mexico in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for 29,670 square miles of land
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
This man was the general of the American military during the war
Who was Zachary Taylor?
This group of people were migrating to America during this time, which caused the creation of Nativist groups.
Who were the Irish and/or German?
Abolitionist sentiment fueled by the release of this book helped usher Abraham Lincoln into office after the election of 1860 and played a role in starting the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator.
Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels?