Westward Expansion
Terms
Causes of the Civil War
Resistance?
On the Road to War
100

The belief that it was the mission of our country to spread the ideas of democracy and Christianity from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean.

What is Manifest Destiny?

100

literally means "before war", period of time before civil war

What is Antebellum?

100
The issue that most believe started the civil war; the south was in support, but the north was not in support.
What is slavery?
100
Another term for uprising, many blacks and whites attempted to lead others in an fight against slavery to end the institution once and for all.
What is a rebellion (see Prosser, Vesey, Turner, and Brown)?
100

Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚

What is the Missouri Compromise?

200
In December 1845, it became the 28th state of the United States after years of conflict with Mexico.
What is Texas?
200

Group of prejudice people who formed a political party during the time when the KKK grew. Anti-Catholics and anti-foreign. They were also known as the American Party.

What is the Know-Nothing Party?

200
The belief that states had the right to rule themselves, and that the interests of the federal government were less important.
What is states' rights?
200
The laws that took nearly all rights away from slave; they could not testify in court against a white person, disrespect a white person, carry a weapon, etc.
What are slave codes?
200

The slave who fought for his freedom in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857, but lost when the justices declared slaves were not citizens and could not fight in a court of law.

Who was Dred Scott?

300
The war won by the United States that won us Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, most of New Mexico and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.
What is the Mexican-American War?
300

A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States

What is an Abolitionist?

300
The belief by the people in a given region that their ideas and interests are better or more important that those in other regions.
What is sectionalism?
300
Harriet Tubman helped many blacks escape to freedom using a network of roads, houses, boats and wagons. to carry blacks north.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
Lincoln accused her, the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, of starting the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
The valuable resource that was discovered in California in 1849.
What is gold?
400

This political party emerged in the 1850's and would become one of the main political parties still to this day. 

What is Republican?

400

This long speech caused a ruckus in Congress and led the beating of the man who gave it.  

What is the Crime Against Kansas?

400
After the election of Lincoln in 1860, this state led secession, and other states followed, also leaving the Union.
What is South Carolina?
400

Brought in California as a Free State, brought Popular Sovereignty to parts of the West

What is the Compromise of 1850?

500
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500

A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.

What is Bleeding Kansas?

500

The Presidential elections of 1848, 1852, 1856, and 1860 showed us that this was happening to our country?

What is division?

500

The Fort that was attacked and started the Civil War.

What is Fort Sumter?

500

The Act that changed the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850, allowing all new states popular sovereignty, or the right to choose whether or not they wanted to join the Union as free-states or as slave-states.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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