Expansion
What effect did getting more land during the 1800s have on the United States?
Something something tension. Sectionalism
This was the last compromise before the war started
Kansas-Nebraska act
This amendment ended slavery
13th amendment
What two states were admitted as slave/free states to the United States in the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri - Slave State // Maine - Free State
Fort Sumter
What did the 14th amendment do? (Reallyyyyyy describe it)
Birthright citizenship: born in the US and/or your parent is a US citizen
Did NOT include Native Americans
The Compromise of 1850 was made to solve arguments over what territory?
The territory the US got (stole) from Mexico after the Mexican-American War
Which came first: Emancipation Proclamation or Gettysburg Address
Emancipation
What did the 15th amendment do?
Freed men can vote
What did the Kansas-Nebraska act undo??
Missouri compromise
A an all-black Union army troop (regiment)
Mass. 54th Regiment
Describe Sharecropping
Basically Feudalism
List the Border States
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and eventually West Virginia
During the Civil War, the Border States …
were loyal to the Union, needed by Lincoln, still had slaves...
Black Americans were heavily involved in politics during reconstruction: voting turnout and having government positions. What white supremacy group was formed to keep Black men from voting?
the KKK