Westward Expansion
This violent pre-Civil War conflict, sparked by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, saw pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clash over the future of slavery in a U.S. territory.
What is Bleeding-Kansas?
This U.S. president, elected in 1860, was the first Republican President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Union military strategy aimed to strangle the Confederacy's economy and war effort by blockading Southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This amendment abolished Slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1862 legislation offered 160 acres of public land to settlers willing to live on and fam the land for five years, encouraging westward expansion in the United States.
What is The Homestead Act?
A Supreme Court Ruling that declared African Americans were not free and had no right to sue in federal court.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
Issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, this executive order declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate-held territories.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
While initially focused on preserving the Union, this U.S. president later declared his opposition to slavery, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and supporting the 13th Amendment.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This 19th-century belief claimed that Americans had a God-given right to expand westward across the continent, spreading democracy and civilization.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A principle that allowed settlers in a given territory to vote/decide whether to permit slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This April 1861 event marked the beginning of the Civil War when Confederate forces fired upon a federal fort in Charleston, South Carolina.
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter?
First state to secede
What is South Carolina?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War, ceding over 500,000 square miles of land to the United States, including present-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This 1820 agreement aimed to maintain the balance of power between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery north of the 36°30′ latitude line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War, ending Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Major consequence of the Civil War?
What is the Abolition of slavery?
This series of laws aimed to ease tensions between free and slave states, admitting California as a free state and strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This controversial law, part of the Compromise of 1850, required citizens to assist in the capture of escaped slaves and required escaped slaves to be returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This region of the United States had a strong industrial economy during the Civil War, producing weapons, supplies, and transportation that gave it a significant advantage over its agricultural counterpart.
What is the North?
Who was Jefferson Davis?