a large area of grazing land without fences or barriers
What is the open range?
100
American pioneers
Who were Mountain Men?
100
Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
the most famous battle during the American Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
100
train route across the United States, finished in 1869
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
mining of stream bed deposits for minerals
What is placer mining?
200
16th president of the U.S.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
His party's anti-slavery struck fear into southerners
What is Abraham Lincoln's election?
200
declared that all slaves in rebellious states were free
What is the emancipation proclamation?
200
land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
action of becoming larger or more extensive
What is expansion?
300
first mentioned the term "Manifest Destiny"
Who is John O'Sullivan
300
Designed to eliminate slavery within land that was acquired from Mexican War
What is the Wilmont Proviso?
300
Battle that starter the American Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
300
exemplified the mood and ideas behind manifest destiny
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy
What is the Trail of Tears?
400
General for the Confederate army
Who is Robert E Lee?
400
An "exaggerated" story about slavery in the South
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
Northern voters overwhelmingly endorse the leadership and policies of President Abraham Lincoln
What is Abraham Lincoln's reelection?
400
virtue, mission, and destiny
What are the 3 parts of Manifest Destiny?
500
compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces
What is conscription?
500
Famous union general
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
500
enforces a measure in the Constitution that denies a jury trial to an alleged fugitive slave and authorizes any federal or state judge to decide that individual's fate
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
500
General Robert E. Lee attacks George McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac near Richmond, Virginia
What are The Seven Days?
500
The two thousand mile journey begins in Independence, Missouri and ends in Willamette River Valley, Oregon.