Expansion
Compromises
Causes of the Civil War
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
This term refers to the belief that it was America's fate to expand from the east coast to the west coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This compromise established the 36'30 line to determine where slavery could and could not expand.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
This group of people advocated for the end of slavery.
Who are the Abolitionists?
100
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
Where is Fort Sumter?
100
These THREE amendments are known as the Reconstruction amendments (or Civil Rights amendments).
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
200
This was was an early indication that the relationship between Mexico and the United States in the early 19th century was tense due to territorial conflict.
What is the Texas Revolution?
200
This compromise admitted California as a free state and left the question of slavery in Utah and New Mexico up to popular sovereignty.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Abraham Lincoln called her "the little lady who started this big war."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
South Carolina seceded in December 1860 because of this reason.
What is they thought Lincoln would abolish slavery?
200
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th?
300
List TWO causes of the Texas Revolution.
-Mexico wanted to abolish slavery; Texans wanted to keep it

-Mexican President Santa Anna attacked the Alamo

-Texas was populated by more Texans than Mexicans

300
This compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Prior to the Civil War, the Northern economy was based on _________ while the Southern economy was based on ___________.
What is industry and farming?
300
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietem?
300

This was a federally funded agency that provided education and social services to former slaves and poor whites.

What is the Freedman's Bureau?
400
This was the main reason the admission to Texas into the United States was a problem.
What is slavery?
400
The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified this compromise. 
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This was John Brown's main motive at Harpers Ferry.
What is start a slave rebellion?
400
This term describes the strategy General William T. Sherman used in his "March to the Sea."
What is total war?
400

This plan gave Congress, not the president (Andrew Johnson), the responsibility to rebuild the south and ensure freed slaves had their rights protected

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
500
Southerners saw the Mexican American War as an opportunity to ________, while Northerners saw the Mexican American War as ______________.
-An opportunity to expand slavery; a risk of southern slaveholders gaining the majority in Congress
500
This compromise was the last major compromise over slavery prior to the Civil War.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
Northerners were enraged by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision because of this. 
It ruled that the government could not limit or prohibit the expansion of slavery.
500
General Robert E. Lee surrendered here.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500

This system that replaced slavery in the South led to a cycle of debt and depression for tenant farmers. 


What is sharecropping?
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