Westward Expansion
A major infrastructure project undertaken at least in part to make it easier for settlers to move westward.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
What was slavery?
The first Republican to be elected president in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A new political party established in 1854 with stopping the spread of slavery as a major aspect of its platform.
What is the Republican Party?
The first state to secede from the Union following the election of the 16th president in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
The site of the first military engagement of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
An American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampsire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress. He also served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state. He argued more than 200 cases before the Supreme Court.
Who is Daniel Webster?
A man known as the "Great Compromiser" at least in part due to his role in crafting the Compromise of 1850.
A term used to described the forced relocation of the Navajo people during the U.S.'s Westward Expansion.
What is the Long Walk?
An established political party that used the slogan "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men".
What is the Free Soil Party?
A U.S. political party that dissolved in 1854 in large part due to division over the issue of slavery.
What was the Whig Party?
The central issue about which states decided to secede from the union.
What is slavery? What is the banning of slavery?
A term used to describe the collection of legal actions designed to segregate black Americans and solidify their status as second-class citizens.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
The full title of the organization that uses NASCAR as its acronym.
What is the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing?
The term used to justify the belief that the U.S. was not only destined to expand westward, but had an imperative from God to do so.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A military conflict that was largely driven by the U.S.'s desire to acquire territories like California.
What was the Mexican American War?
The man for whom a supreme court decision is remembered that, among other things, clarified that black people living in the U.S. were not citizens despite being free or enslaved.
Who is Dred Scott?
A European population that largely settled in urban centers like New York and Boston during the 1840s and 1850s.
What are Irish Immigrants?
The action that was justified by the claim that the federal government was violating the doctrine of state's rights.
What is secession?
A term used to describe the collection of policies that were primarily designed to prevent black Americans from engaging in the free economy.
What are the Black Codes?
The shooting and small forward for the Dallas Mavericks who wears #31 on his jersey.
Who is Klay Thompson?
A rapid migration to the west coast largely driven by the discovery of valuable minerals.
What was the California Gold Rush?
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Legislation that allowed territories to make a decision on the issue of slavery based on the idea of popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
An established political party that, among other things, advocated for extending the time it took for immigrants to naturalize.
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
A separate federal government established by the seceding southern states.
What was the Confederate States of America?
One of the Union's military strategies designed to weaken the Confederate states by taking control of southern sea ports and the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Who is Ingemar Stenmark?
A piece of federal legislation designed to encourage Westward Expansion by promising settlers that they could own land for a relatively small fee and the establishment of a farm.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
A proposal that would ban the spread of slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A term used to describe the violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in one of the newly established territories.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
A phrase used by strong pro-slavery advocates to illustrate the necessity of slavery for the U.S.
What is "positive good"?
An executive order issued by President Lincoln declaring that all slaves within the Confederate states were free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The period of time following the Civil War in which Northern policies were implemented as an attempt to undo the harms of slavery and the devastation of the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction? What is the Reconstruction Period?
The title of the third studio album by the band The Kings, released in 1966 on Reprise Records.
What is the The Kink Kontroversy?
An agreement that ended the Mexican-American war and resulted in the U.S. acquiring large territories such as California.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Three amendments to the Constitution that freed enslaved people, established expanded rights of citizens, and gave all men the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution?
The name of a relatively lenient proposal to allow the southern states that seceded from the Union to rejoin.
What is the 10% plan?
The number of sovereign nations the United Nations officially recognizes.
What is 193?