Bought from France, this was the best land deal in history!!!
What is the LOUISIANA PURCHASE?
100
The social reform movement calling for an end to slavery.
What is ABOLITION?
100
The primary cause of the Civil War, this is the division of the country into distinct regions with divergent political, economic, and social values.
What is SECTIONALISM?
100
This event caused South Carolina and 6 other Southern states to secede from the Union.
What is THE ELECTION OF 1860?
100
This was the main difference between the Presidential Plan and the Radical Republicans Plan for Reconstruction.
What is REBUILD or PUNISH?
200
Coined by James O'Sullivan, this term refers to the common belief that it was "God's will" to expand westward.
What is MANIFEST DESTINY?
200
Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this was the first women's right conference in the US.
What is the SENECA FALLS CONVENTION?
200
This agreement stated that for every slave state admitted below the line, a free state should be added above the line.
What is the MISSOURI COMPROMISE?
200
The Confederates fired the first shots at this military base in South Carolina.
What is FT. SUMTER?
200
Johnson was impeached for telling states to nullify this Act and removing officials who enforced it.
What is the RECONSTRUCTION ACT?
300
Boundary disputes resulting from the annexation of this country caused the Mexican-American War.
What is TEXAS?
300
As the founder of the first school board, he is known as the "father of public education".
Who is HORACE MANN?
300
The Compromise of 1850 made California a free state in exchange for this law which forced Northerners to return runaway slaves.
What is the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT?
300
This declaration by Abraham Lincoln stated that all slaves in the states in rebellion were free.
What is the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION?
300
These were unwritten laws written by Southern states that infringed upon the rights granted to blacks.
What are BLACK CODES?
400
Known as an expansionists, this President got us Texas, Oregon, and half of Mexico.
Who is JAMES POLK?
400
Led by women and churchgoers, this reform movement called for a restriction on the sale of alcohol.
What is TEMPERANCE?
400
This abolitionists led a raid at Harper's Ferry to try and get weapons for a slave rebellion.
Who is JOHN BROWN?
400
Known as the turning point of the war for the Union, this was the deadliest battle of the Civil War.
What is GETTYSBURG?
400
These were the nicknames for Southerners and Northerners who supported Radical Reconstruction of the South.
What are SCALAWAGS & CARPETBAGGERS?
500
Bought from Mexico, this narrow strip of land by present-day Arizona and New Mexico allowed the US to complete the southern transcontinental railroad.
What is the GADSDEN PURCHASE?
500
Evangelists of this religious revival movement advocated that one must live a good life to get into heaven.
What is the 2nd GREAT AWAKENING?
500
Repealing the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed states this power over the issue of slavery.
What is POPULAR SOVEREIGHNTY?
500
This military strategy called for the Union to take control of all rivers, railroads, and ports in order to "squeeze the life out of the Confederates".
What is the ANACONDA PLAN?
500
Established by the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction, these are the Civil Rights Amendments AND the rights they granted.
What are the: 13th (emancipation), 14th (citizenship/equality). 15th (suffrage)?