Westward Expansion
The idea that the United States is destined by God to expand its domain and spread democracy and capitalism across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This term refers to the era existing or occurring before a war.
What is Antebellum?
Name one cause of the Civil War.
Admittance of California, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott Decision, Election of 1860.
This man became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Exchange made by US and France in 1803, which doubled the size of the continent.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Name one way that slaves retaliated their masters.
Breaking equipment/tools, purposeful injuries, poisoning the masters food., etc.
This man was president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Name one purpose of Reconstruction.
Restore the Union, rebuild the Southern economy & society, pass legislation to help newly freed black people
This law prohibited slavery from all Louisiana Purchase stated above the 36th parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This raw material was the South's highest produced good. Often times referred to in the phrase "_____ is King".
What is cotton?
Name one advantage that the Union had going into the Civil War.
Population, navy, inventions, industry, transportation, etc.
This Reconstruction Amendment bans slavery in all US states and territories.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The US gained the territories of California, Arizona, Texas, and Nevada though this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Invented by Eli Whitney, this invention is responsible for the sudden increase in slavery in the late early 1800s.
What is the cotton gin?
This document, written by President Lincoln, declared that the Civil War was officially about slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These Southern laws restricted blacks from voting carrying weapons, marrying white people, owning businesses, etc.
What are the Black Codes?
The Trail of Tears occurred because of the this act of legislation.
By 1860, the slave population had grown to this number.
What is 4 million?
This man assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This program was created to food, clothing, education, and medical care to the newly freed black Southerners.