Manifest Destiny
This diplomatic agreement with France in 1803 doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
This 1820 compromise regulated slavery in new territories by establishing a boundary at 36'30" N
Missouri Compromise
This Supreme Court decision declared that African Americans were not citizens
Dred Scott Decision
The North had a significant advantage in this type of economic production
Industry/Industrialization
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery
13th Amendment
America wanted to spread which 3 ideas through Manifest Destiny?
Capitalism, Democracy, and Christianity
This compromise attempted to deal with expansion of slavery by admitting California as a Free state and established stricter fugitive slave laws
Compromise of 1850
This abolitionist was an escaped slave who published the North Star and advised President Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
The Confederacy's primary economic system was based on this...
Agriculture/Slave-based
This battle was the bloodiest single day of the war
Battle of Antietam
As America expanded, the divisions between the north and south increased- this is known as…
Sectionalism
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty in determining slavery's status
A rebellion by an enslaved person in Virginia that heightened tensions about slavery
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This Union general was crucial in winning the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
This event happened as a result of conscription in the north
NYC Draft Riots
This territorial acquisition was an independent republic before asking to be annexed by the United States
Texas
This violent period in Kansas demonstrated the intense conflict over slavery's expansion
Bleeding Kansas
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe intensified anti-slavery sentiment
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What was the Union military strategy that blockaded the Confederacy called?
The Anaconda Plan
The war fundamentally changed the balance of power between these two governmental levels
Federal Government vs. State Government
This key territorial acquisition in the southwest was obtained through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican Cession (California and New Mexico)
During the period of Manifest Destiny, debates arose over the expansion of slavery since the North and South were worried about the...
Balance of Power in Congress
This event at Harpers Ferry dramatically escalated tensions between North and South
John Brown's Raid
The North had a significant advantage in this type of infrastructure
Transportation/Railroads
As a senator from Illinois, Lincoln expressed his beliefs about slavery in this famous speech.
What is the name of his speech and what was the main idea?
A House Divided - he said that the nation could not survive as half free and half slave