The Belief that the United States had a "God" given right to expand as a chosen group of people.
What is Manifest Destiny.
100
Group of immigrants that were dominant in the West.
What are Asians.
100
This court case overturned the Missouri Compromise.
What is Dred Scott vs Sanford.
100
These two battles that were fought simultaneously were considered turning points in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
100
These three amendments abolished slavery, gave freedmen citizenship and granted them the right to vote.
What is the 13th,14th, and 15th amendments.
200
Conflict after US annexation of Texas; Mexico still considered Texas its own.
What is the Mexican-American War.
200
These two industries employed mostly immigrants.
What is the railroad and mining industries.
200
This notion stated that people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty.
200
This successful outline strategy was used to suppress the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.
What is the Anaconda Plan (Scott's Great Snake).
200
This government funded project failed to work in a large scale to help former slaves with unemployment, food and other problems.
What is the Freedman`s Bureau.
300
A poem by British poet Rudyard Kipling commenting on American imperialism. It created a phrase used by imperialists to justify the actions the U.S. took.
What is the White Man's Burden.
300
The group of people who targeted new immigrants and demanded economic and political restrictions on them.
What is the Know Nothing Party.
300
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in this retribution given to Mexico.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and $15 million.
300
These are 3 reasons why the North succeeded in the Civil War.
What is more people, more resources, better industries, strong navy, and Allies.
300
This is a way that owners would have former slaves work on pieces of their land for small payment and is seen as just an extension of slavery.
What is share-cropping.
400
Wilmot Proviso Bill proposed after the Mexican War that stated that neither slavery no involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any territory gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso.
400
These people moved westward to escape reconstruction in the South.
What are Confederate leaders and soldiers.
400
This compromise ended Reconstruction and elected this president.
What is the Compromise of 1877 and Rutherford B. Hayes.
400
This military campaign was done by this Union General in Georgia, notable by the battle in Atlanta.
What is Sherman`s March to the sea, General William T. Sherman.
400
Who are Northerners who moved to the south to take advantage of the southern economic opportunity and cheap land.
Who are carpetbaggers.
500
"54° 40' or Fight" is the slogan that led to this president's victory and acquisitions of these territories.
What is James K. Polk and Texas, California, and Oregon.
500
In the early 1840s this made the West so diverse in comparison to the East.
What is the economic opportunities the Gold Rush offered.
500
This textile factory system of the early 19th century that employed mainly young women from New England farms to increase efficiency, productivity and profits in ways different from other methods.
What is the Lowell system.
500
The South wanted a) these allies and believed they would come b)for this reason and c) it failed to occur because of this.
Who are the French.
What is because of cotton.
What is because of new cotton industry in Egypt and because of slaves being frond upon worldwide.
500
These people gave the Republicans an advantage in the next four presidential elections.