Vocabulary
This belief justified U.S. expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Why the war ended
What is Mexico surrendered?
This side lost the United States civil war.
What is the Confederate Union
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
The act of formally withdrawing from a nation or organization
What is secede?
The United States acquired Florida from this country in 1819.
What is Spain?
This U.S. action led to the war by provoking Mexico
What is the annexation of Texas?
This 1860 election victor led to Southern Secession
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This era (1865–1877) involved federal troops enforcing new civil rights laws in states that were members of the Confederate.
What is Reconstruction?
This war between the North and South lasted from 1861 to 1865.
What is the U.S. Civil War?
Texas won independence from this country before joining the U.S. in 1845.
What is Mexico?
The Mexican-American War lasted from these years
what are 1846 to 1848?
The first battle of the Civil War, fought in South Carolina
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
The number of miles of track built by 1900
What is 200,000?
This proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln declared all confederate slaves free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This territory was given to the U.S. as a part of a treaty with Britain in 1846.
What is Oregon?
The vast southwestern region ceded to the U.S. by Mexico
What is the Mexican cession?
This side had a larger population, better transportation, and greater resources
What is the North (Union)?
The products carried by trains across the country
What is corn, wheat, and cattle?
The enforced separation of different racial groups in society.
What is Segregation?
The last land acquisition that finalized U.S. Borders in 1853
What is the Gadsden purchase?
The modern-day states that were part of the Mexican Cession (Name 3)
What are California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming
The number of years the Civil war lasted
What is 4?
The backbone of American Labor during the late 1800's to early 1900's
What are immigrants?