Manifest Destiny
Answer: The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand westward across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is the most significant effect of the Mexican-American War.
What is the acquisition of vast new territories given up by Mexico?
California was admitted as a free state as a provision of this Compromise.
What was a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
Our 16th president who won the election of 1860.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This Bureau provided education, food, and housing to freed slaves after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The US annexed this current southern state in 1845, which would eventually lead to a border dispute with Mexico.
What is Texas?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
These were the primary economic differences between the North and the South in the 1800s. (Not discussing slavery in this question.)
What is agricultural South and Industrial North?
The South's biggest advantage in the Civil War, illustrated by famous people such as Robert E. Lee
What is superior military leadership?
This domestic terrorist organization aimed at making life "worse than slavery" for black people.
What is the Ku-Klux-Klan? (KKK)
This social and economic issue divided the country when we acquired new western lands.
What is the expansion of slavery into new territories?
These are two states that the US gained in the Mexican-American War
California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming
This region of the country had the strongest opposition to the expansion of slavery.
What is the North?
What is "Sherman's March to the Sea"
This amendment made it illegal to own slaves in the USA.
What is the 13th amendment?
DAILY DOUBLE: These two rivers are the rivers that the USA and Mexico disputed as the true border between these countries. (Must know both rivers for the points)
What is the Rio Grande and the Nueces River?
The USA gave Mexico this sum of money, which some inferred was an admission of guilt.
What is 15 million dollars?
This was a result of sectional tensions about the issue of slavery, and a fraudulent state-wide election, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment guaranteed the right to vote for all men, including black people.
What is the 15th amendment?
This President was in charge during the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk
This document proposed that slavery is banned in newly won territories from Mexico. It sparked furious debate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This slave lost his court case in this famous 1857 Court Decision.
Who was Dred Scott?
South Carolina seceded from the Union first. Name five others to join the Confederacy.
What are Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia?
This compromise ended reconstruction by removing the Northern Troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?