Westward
Expansion 1
Expansion 1
What caused the United States to pursue westward expansion?
1. To get access to more natural resources
2. They wanted to control more land to become a more powerful country
3. Manifest Destiny (it was their right and destiny)
4. Gold Rush + Transcontinental Railroad
What group lived to the West of the US?
1. Native Americans
2. Spanish/French Colonists
What are two causes of the Civil War?
1. Slavery
2. Sectionalism
3. States' Rights
4. Secession
What was an effect of the Union winning the Civil War?
1. Abolition of slavery
2. Country reunited
What is Reconstruction?
The period after the Civil War meant to...
1. Rebuild the South
2. Integrate newly freed Black people
What is Manifest Destiny?
The idea that the United States had the god given right to expand westward.
How did Westward Expansion impact Native Americans?
1. Native Americans were forcibly removed from Eastern parts and forced to live West of Mississippi River.
2. Native Americans west of the Mississippi River often clashed with new settlers.
3. Many Native Americans were killed during Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears
What were the "North" and "South" called during the Civil War?
North = Union
South = Confederacy
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in the South were free
Before the Civil War, supporters and opponents of slavery flooded to Kansas, which led to violence. What was this event called?
Bleeding Kansas
What was the area that the United States purchased from France called?
Louisiana Purchase -- Doubled the size of the country!
The United States won the ________-American War in the 1840s, which led to the expansion of the United States to the West (fill in the blank)
Mexican-American War
What was the subject of the three compromises (Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas Nebraska Act)?
Compromises determined whether new states that entered into the country would become a slave state or free state
Name one advantage that helped the North win the Civil War?
1. More railroads
2. More soldiers
3. Better economy (money)
4. Black soldiers fought for them
Name one way that Southern states maintained a racial hierarchy even after slavery was abolished.
1. Literacy tests + poll taxes (stopped many black people from voting)
2. Jim Crow Laws, laws segregating much of society.
3. Racial violence (lynchings + KKK)
To what state were many of the Native American tribes from the East relocated?
Reservations in Oklahoma
Who was the President who led Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears?
Andrew Jackson
What specific event triggered the start of the Civil War?
South Carolina seceded from the United States and then formed the Confederacy with other southern states
An abolitionist is someone who believed that slavery should be abolished. Abolitionists fought to end slavery using a variety of methods.
What Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
What law provided free land to white settlers if they moved to West and set up a home?
The Homestead Act 1862
What is the significance of the Supreme Court Case Worcester v. Georgia? (hint, related to Westward Expansion)
The Supreme Court said that the United States could not forcibly remove Native Americans from Georgia because native land was basically a foreign country. BUT, Jackson violated the ruling and did it anyway!
Explain the role of one of the following Abolitionists: Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harriet Tubman = Underground railroad and general
John Brown = Leader of raid on Harper's Ferry
Fredrick Douglass = Speaker and writer
Harriet Beecher Stowe = Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which Amendments were passed directly after the end of the Civil War?
13th = ended slavery
14th = made discrimination based on race illegal (sort of)
15th = made voting discimination illegal (sort of)
What is Sharecropping?
A system of labor where poor farmers in the south (mostly Black) were trapped in a cycle of debt with very little opportunity