Manifest Destiny & Expansion
Belief that the United States should expand west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
State admitted as free under the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
Main issue dividing North and South.
What is slavery?
Bloodiest single day of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
Location of Confederate surrender.
What is Appomattox Court House?
War that added large amounts of land to the United States.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Term for regional differences between North and South.
What is sectionalism?
Battle that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
President assassinated in 1865.
What is Abraham Lincoln?
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Idea that settlers vote on slavery in new territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
Southern argument used to defend slavery.
What are states’ rights?
Major Union victory after which the South never recovered offensively.
What is Gettysburg?
President who led Reconstruction after Lincoln.
What is Andrew Johnson?
Why did westward expansion increase sectional tension?
What is each new territory raised the slavery question?
Why did the Compromise of 1850 increase Northern opposition?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act angered Northerners?
How did economic differences increase sectional tension?
What is the North and South depended on different labor systems?
Why was Antietam important beyond the battlefield?
What is it allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
Why did Lincoln’s assassination affect Reconstruction?
What is it removed a leader who favored leniency?
Explain why Manifest Destiny led to conflict instead of national unity.
What is expansion forced repeated debates over slavery and power?
Explain why the Compromise of 1850 failed long term.
What is it postponed conflict without resolving slavery?
Explain how multiple causes combined to lead to war.
What is slavery, sectionalism, and states’ rights reinforced each other?
Explain why turning points changed the direction of the war.
What is they shifted momentum and weakened the Confederacy?
Compare Lincoln’s and Johnson’s Reconstruction plans.
What is both were lenient but Johnson failed to protect freedpeople?