Westward Expansion
This person negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Harriet Tubman was a famous "conductor" of this secretive route.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Name the two sides that fought in the Civil War.
What is the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South)?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The rebuilding of the war-torn South, reintegrating the former Confederate states into the Union, and establishing civil rights for the newly freed enslaved people.
What is Reconstruction?
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Kansas earned this nickname after conflict arose over the issue of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The Union implemented this plan to constrict the South by blockading the coast.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This was the bloodiest battle of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This movement led the U.S. from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against this man, stating that enslaved and free Africans were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.
Who is Dred Scott?
Name the two major generals for both sides of the war.
Who are Ulysses S. Grant (Union) and Robert E. Lee (Confederacy)?
Tecumseh Sherman implemented this plan to capture Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia.
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
These were a diverse group of miners who flocked to California during the gold rush in an attempt to make a fortune.
Who are the Forty-Niners?
John Brown led an unsuccessful raid on the federal arsenal in this town.
What is Harpers Ferry?
This executive order declared the slaves in Confederate states free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The capture of this city allowed the Union to fully control the Mississippi.
What is Vicksburg?
This Southern sympathizer became president after Lincoln.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This term was used to justify westward expansion, stating it was God's will that Americans spread the ideals of freedom and democracy throughout the country.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This location is where the Confederacy surrendered, ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire after this battle.
What is Chancellorsville?
List two ways Reconstruction was a success and a failure.
Success: End of slavery, constitutional amendments to protect African Americans, and the Freedmen's Bureau to support freed slaves.
Failures: South Democrats enacting black codes, the rise of the KKK, and removing the military to allow Democrats to regain control of the South.