Sectionalism
This legislation effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act
This Treaty effectively ended the Mexican-American War, the United States agreed to pay Mexico $15 million, Mexico abandoned all of its claims to territory in Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This president's goal was to fulfill the manifest destiny of the United States. He expanded US territory and the country spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific by the end of his term.
Who is James Polk
The Confederate bombardment of which fort on April 12-13, 1861, marked the beginning of the American Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
What did President Abraham Lincoln use to establish the abolition of slavery as a Union objective in the Civil War?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This side during the Civil War had a better railroad system. They were industrial and had more factories. They also had a larger population
What is the North?
California was admitted to the Union as a free state, the New Mexico and Utah territories were organized using popular sovereignty, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, DC, and a new and more effective fugitive slave law was enacted under which compromise
What is the Compromise of 1850
He was named president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Large numbers of civilians lost their property as a result of his "March to the Sea."
Who is William T. Sherman
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address were examples of Lincoln's desire to do this.
What is Preserve the Union
This side had more agriculture land and were fighting for individual states' rights. Cotton was the most important resource. Their economy was built on land and slavery.
What is the South?
This abolitionist carried out a raid on Harpers Ferry Virginia which heightened tensions between the Northern and the Southern states.
What is John Brown
After the Civil War began, the primary goal of this president was to restore the Confederate states to the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Union morale increased despite the lack of a clear victory after this bloody one day battle where 23000 soldiers died.
What is The Battle of Antietam
What was Lincoln referring to in the first line of the Gettysburg Address--Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
What is the Declaration of Independence
One provision of this compromise was that Maine be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to keep a balance of free states and slave state
What is the Missouri Compromise
He fought in the first Mexican-American war, served as the US Secretary of War and led the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War, lasted three days
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War because it split the South into two.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg
The following were consequences of which Supreme Court decision
-It increased the growing tensions between the North and the South.
-It opened the way for the further expansion of slavery in the United States.
What is Dred Scott v Sandford
What is the Mexican American War
President Lincoln suspended this right during the Civil War to keep Confederate sympathizers (Copperheads) imprisoned.
What is Habeas Corpus
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered here to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, thus bringing an end to the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on April 9, 1865?
He assassinated President Lincoln at the Ford Theater
Who was John Wilkes Booth