Manifest Destiny
The belief that Americans should move west across the country.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Covered wagons were often used to travel on this famous trail.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The North and South argued over this issue the most.
What is slavery?
The Civil War was fought between these two sides.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
These amendments were added after the Civil War.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This ocean was the goal settlers wanted to reach when moving west.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A valuable metal discovered in California in 1848.
What is gold?
States that allowed slavery were called these.
What are slave states?
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The 13th Amendment ended this practice.
What is slavery?
Name one reason settlers moved west.
What is land, gold, jobs, or a better life?
This law gave settlers free land if they farmed it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This book helped people see how bad slavery was.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The war began at this fort in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
The 14th Amendment gave people this important right.
What is citizenship?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Native Americans were forced to move west along this route.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The name of the southern states that seceded?
The Confederate States of America.
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The 15th Amendment gave African American men this right.
What is the right to vote?
President who made the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Two major problems settlers faced on the trail.
What are disease, lack of food, weather, or attacks?
A compromise that tried to keep balance between free and slave states.
What is Missouri Compromise?
The Civil War ended in this year.
What is 1865?
These amendments were meant to help formerly enslaved people.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?