US History - Expansion, Nationalism, Sectionalism

Westward Expansion

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This purchase more than doubled the size of the US, part of which included the port city of New Orleans

Louisiana Purchase

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This concept was the justification for expanding west, with settlers arguing it was their God-given right to move into newly acquired territories

Manifest Destiny

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This was the most commonly used pathway which settlers moved west, seeking to settle in one of the modern West Coast states

Oregon Trail

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This war saw the expansion of American holdings to include the Pacific Coast and the Southwest

Mexican-American War

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The discovery of gold in this territory lead to mass migration to the west starting in 1849

California

Slavery in America

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These people seeked to end slavery in the US and free all those who were enslaved

Abolitionists

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This passage was commonly used for slaves to escape their masters and become free

Underground Railroad

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Slavery was on a slow decline until this invention by Eli Whitney made it more profitable to produce cotton

Cotton Gin

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The writings of this former slave include his 12 Years as a slave and his questioning of "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"

Frederick Douglass

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The publication of this book spurred the Abolitionist movement as it showed the world how slaves in southern states were treated

Uncle Tom's Cabin

A Nation Divided

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Before the Civil War, states were typically added in pairs as to maintain the balance between these

Free and Slave states

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This series of violent actions was the result of pro-slavery and pro-abolitionist settlers trying to influence the vote in Kansas and Nebraska, resulting in death and mass destruction of property

Bleeding Kansas

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The actions of this abolitionist, including his raid on the arms storage at Harper's Ferry, ignited fears of a forcible freeing of slaves from their masters

John Brown

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The election of Abraham Lincoln lead to this state to become the first to secede from the United States

South Carolina

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This was the issue which tore the country in half

Slavery

Attempts to Compromise

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This deal attempted to end the issue of slavery by establishing a line dividing where new Free and Slave states could be established

Missouri Compromise

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This Compromise attempted to resolve the issue of slavery after the mass territorial gains following the Mexican-American War which included California

Compromise of 1850

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Part of the Compromise of 1850 included this law which allowed Southern slave holders to search for their escaped slaves in northern free states

Fugitive Slave Act

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The Missouri Compromise allowed for the addition of Missouri to the Union as a Slave State if this state joined the Union as a Free State

Maine

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act permitted for a direct vote on the issue of slavery, an example of this

Popular Sovereignty

Civil War

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The first shots of the Civil War were fired upon this fort as Confederate forces looked to claim US forts in their territories

Fort Sumpter

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This was the Union plan to suffocate the Confederacy like a snake, enforcing a naval blockade of all southern ports

Anaconda Plan

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This document, signed into effect by President Lincoln, officially freed the slaves in the states of the Confederacy and unquestionably made the war a fight for the end of American slavery

Emancipation Proclomation

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This General's actions during the war would win the war for the Union, being the one to be able to finally defeat General Lee of the Confederacy

Ulysses S. Grant

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This state joined the Union during the war, seceding from the seceded Virginia

West Virginia