Manifest Destiny
Due to this expansion, it made the Great Plains more accessible and contributed to a surge in western settlement between the 1860s and 1870s.
What is the railroads?
The North went to war with the South primarily for this reason.
What is to preserve the Union?
These factors can be can be used to explain the Union victory in the Civil War.
What is greater population and industrial development?
This was a major economic development in the South during Reconstruction.
What is sharecropping?
The Supreme Court's decision in this case effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Dred Scott case?
The United States experienced an increasing tension over the issue of slavery because of this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This state was the first to attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery.
What is Kansas?
The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because of it did this.
What is halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North?
The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to do this.
What is place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people?
These were caused because of the American belief that it was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight."
What are the draft riots in New York City?
The United States gained possession of California and most of the Southwest from this.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The Compromise of 1850 did what?
What is enacted a stringent fugitive slave law?
This was issued at the beginning of 1863 and its immediate effect was to strengthen the moral cause of the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The formation of this group occurred during the Radical Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there is what principle?
What is popular sovereignty?
The passage of these acts led to anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president but didn't advocate for this.
What is the abolition of slavery throughout the United States?
This battle is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil war because it forestalled the possibility of European intervention.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
During Reconstruction, this was a change that took place in the South for African Americans.
What is the ability to exercise political rights?
This was the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861-1863.
What is possible British recognition of the Confederacy?
A major consequence of United States expansionism created these problems.
What is sectional discord and failure to compromise?
At the outbreak of the Civil War, pro-Union sentiment was strong in western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina primarily because of these reasons.
What is there were relatively few slaves or large plantations in these regions?
This contributed directly to the end of slavery in the United States?
What is the Union victory that led to the ratification of the 13th Amendment?
After the Civil War, the legislation that ensured the voting rights of African American males divided these two groups.
What is women reformers and abolitionists?
This person was the LEAST involved in the struggle for women's rights.
Dorothea Dix