Manifest Destiny
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Presidents
Important Dates
100
Bans slavery in all land acquired from Mexico
What is Wilmot Proviso
100
Allowed states to decide if the would be free or slave states
What is popular sovereignty
100
Plan proposed by Lincoln that said a state could rejoin the Union when 10% of the 1860 voters took an oath of allegiance to the United States
What is the Ten Percent Plan
100
President after Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater who continued with the Ten Percent Reconstruction Plan
Who is Andrew Johnson
100
The year that New York State abolished slavery
What is 1828
200
Said the US was destined to expand from coast to coast and fueled western settlement
What is Manifest Destiny
200
Supreme Court case that ruled slaves were property, not citizens
What is Dred Scott vs Sanford
200
Three amendments that helped free blacks and give them rights
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
200
President that dealt with Oregon and Texas and their admission into the Union
Who is James K. Polk
200
The year that the Fugitive Slave Acts were passed
What is 1850
300
Lead Mexican troops to the Battle of the Alamo
Who is General Santa Anna
300
President during the Civil War who signed the Emancipation Proclemation
Who is Abraham Lincoln
300
Made to help freed slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War
What is Freedmen's Bureau
300
Signed the Compromise of 1850 into a law and admitted California into the Union as a free state
Who is Millard Fillmore
300
The year that "Bleeding Kansas" happened along with the passing of the Kansas Nebraska Act
What is 1854
400
Military General that brought Texas to the United States after capturing Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto
Who is Sam Houston
400
Arsenal that was raided by John Brown in attempt to start a revolt
What is Harper's Ferry
400
Act that laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867
400
This president pushed for reforms which allowed him to surpass his opponent who pushed for leniency toward the South
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
400
The day the Supreme Court Ruled on the Dred Scott vs Sanford case
What is December 16th 1857
500
Treaty that ended the war with Mexico and gave the United States more land
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
500
Southern pro-slavery extremists that helped the Confederate States of America
What is Fire Eaters
500
A system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use their land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land
What is sharecropping
500
President won the support of the South because he owned over 100 slaves
Who is Zachary Taylor
500
The day that the US and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is February 2nd 1848
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