Westward Expansion
Belief that Americans needed to spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
State admitted in the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
Turning point of the Civil War (a battle) and site of a famous Lincoln speech.
What is Gettysburg?
Name one President of the Reconstruction Era.
Who is Lincoln?
Who is Johnson?
Who is Grant?
Winner of the Election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
President in office during the Mexican-American War.
Who is President Polk?
Political ideology that allowed settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed in their state/territory or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
A several day period of violence aimed at black Americans in NYC during the Civil War.
What are the Draft Riots?
The amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Name of the enslaved person who appealed for his freedom in the Supreme Court in 1857.
Who is Dred Scott?
Policy that gave federal lands to those who agreed to settle the land for 5 years and farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
Most controversial piece of the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Unfulfilled promise that General Sherman gave to newly freed African Americans.
What is 40 Acres and a Mule?
The name of Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan.
What is the 10% Plan?
Congressman who gave the famous "spot resolution" speech at the start of the Mexican-American War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?