Manifest Destiny
The belief that America had a "God-given right" to expand west
What is Manifest Destiny?
This compromise allowed the state it is named after to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state, but all other states admitted thereafter would be free states if they were North of this states Southern border, and slave states if South of the border
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This is what the North's economy was mostly based on
What is Industry and Manufacturing
This was the President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
The discovery of this led to a massive population boom in California in 1849
What is Gold?
This compromise admitted California as a free state in 1850 and also said that future states could decide on slavery by voting
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This is what the South's economy was mostly based on
What is Agriculture and slavery?
This even officially started the Civil War
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter?
This amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the US
What is the 14th Amendment
This war gave the US control of California, Arizona, and more
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery, leading to Bleeding Kansas
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This invention led to an increase indemand for slave labor in the South by making it easier to pull seeds from a specific Cash Crop
What is the Cotton Gin?
This was Lincoln's main goal at the start of the war
What is Preserve the Union?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment
This state had a revolution against Mexico after several Americans had moved there and won its independence, later being annexed into the United States
What is Texas?
This Supreme Court case said enslaved people were property, not citizens
This area of the United States had much more railroads and a much higher Population
What is the North?
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War and where Lincoln gave a famous address
What is Gettysburg
These laws in the South restricted the rights of freedmen
What are Black Codes?
This purchase completed the continental US borders in 1854
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This law required Northerners to return escaped enslaved people
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was the major political issue that divided the North and South
Slavery
This is what General Sherman's destructive march through Georgia was called
What is Sherman's March to the Sea
This government agency was created to help freedmen with schools and aid
What is the Freedmen's Bureau