Expansion & Early Causes
What belief said Americans were meant to expand west?
Manifest Destiny
What caused fighting between the U.S. and Mexico?
Border dispute near the Rio Grande
Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
What act let Kansas and Nebraska vote on slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed enslaved people in Confederate States ONLY
What crop increased the demand for plantation land and slavery?
Cotton
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Why did California entering as a free state cause a crisis?
It upset the balance of free and slave states
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Allowing states to vote on whether or not they want slavery
What was the main purpose of the Gettysburg Address?
To explain the purpose of the Civil War
What purchase doubled the size of the United States?
The Louisiana Purchase
What land did the U.S. gain from the Mexican-American War?
California and the Southwest
What law required Northerners to return runaway enslaved people?
Fugitive Slave Act
What did the Dred Scott decision say about enslaved people?
Enslaved people are not citizens
To bring the North and South back together after the Civil War ended
What event began the chain of events that led to the Civil War?
Westward Expansion
What proposal tried to ban slavery in new territories?
Wilmot Proviso
What did abolitionists want?
To end slavery
Which state seceded first after Lincoln’s election?
South Carolina
What system replaced slavery in Southern agriculture?
Sharecropping
What issue caused major tension as the U.S. expanded west?
Slavery
What major result of the war increased conflict between the North and South?
Slavery debates intensified
What did Free Soilers want?
To stop the EXPANSION of slavery
What event officially started the Civil War?
The attack on Northern ships at Fort Sumter
What agreement ended Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877