Westward Expansion
What was the name of the political ideology of America's "God given right" to expand westward towards the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
What was the name of the legislation which freed enslaved people in the Confederate States?
Emancipation Proclamation
Which battle of the American Civil War is considered a key turning point for the Union victory?
Battle of Gettysburg
What was the name of President Lincoln's speech after the resolution of the American Civil War?
The Gettysburg Address
Which war greatly expanded the western territories of the United States?
Mexican-American War
What was the name of the act which determined the policy of slavery in the newly acquired territories to be based on popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the name of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
Which event officially lead to the Failure of Reconstruction?
Hayes' Election / withdrawal of Union troops from the south
What was the name of the railroad being constructed, connecting the east to the west?
Transcontinental Railroad
What was the name of the court case which determined that African Americans "were not, and could never be citizens of the United States"?
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
What was the name of the Union plan to attack the Confederacy by occupying the Mississippi River?
The Anaconda Plan
What was the name of president Lincoln's proposed plan for the re-admission of southern states?
Ten Percent Plan
What was the name of the act which persuaded people to venture west and settle the land?
Homestead Act
What was the name of the political compromise proposed by the north over the expansion of slavery?
Compromise of 1850
Where was the American Civil War officially put to an end at?
Appomattox Courthouse
Which Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States?
13th Amendment
What was the name of the treaty signed between the United States and Mexico to officially end the Mexican-American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What was the name of the act which officially allowed for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Pacific Railway Act
Which was the first southern state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
After president Lincoln's death, which president elected shortly after contributed to the Failure of Reconstruction?
President Andrew Johnson