Westward Expansion & Sectionalism
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while drawing a line across the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were property and not citizens of the United States
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This Union general later became the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This battle in 1861 was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This idea that the United States was destined to expand across North America guided the presidency of James K. Polk.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This abolitionist led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry hoping to start a slave revolt.
Who is John Brown?
This Confederate general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia and became the South’s most famous military leader.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This 1862 battle gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This war between the United States and Mexico increased sectional tensions because it added large new territories where slavery might expand
What is the Mexican-American War?
This principle allowed settlers in a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed there
What is popular sovereignty?
This Confederate general earned the nickname “Stonewall” after standing firm at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson?
This Union victory in 1863 gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This agreement admitted California as a free state and included a stronger Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This 1860 election victory by a Republican candidate caused several Southern states to secede.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This Union general used “total war” tactics during his March to the Sea through Georgia.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This three-day battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This organization helped formerly enslaved people by providing food, education, and assistance after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery, leading to violent conflict known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This growing disagreement between Northern and Southern states over slavery and political power is called this.
What is sectionalism?
This man served as the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This city’s capture by Union forces in 1864 helped Abraham Lincoln win reelection.
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
This election and compromise led to the removal of federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
What is the Election of 1876?