Westward WOW
The concept of Manifest Destiny was used to justify what?
U.S. expansion
What is sectionalism?
Tension between different regions of a country.
Popular Sovereignty allowed citizens to do what?
Vote on whether slavery would be allowed.
What is the word that is used to end slavery?
Abolition
What farming system often trapped workers in a cycle of debt after the Civil War?
Sharecropping
The dispute that sparked the Mexican-American War was primarily over what?
Texas Border
The Missouri Compromise attempted to do what?
Balance free/slave states
Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War focused on what?
Rebuilding the nation.
Emancipation means what?
Free enslaved people
Reconstruction was the period focused on what?
Rebuilding the nation
What was a major consequence of the Mexican-American War?
Mexican Cession
What did the Dred Scott decision say about Enslaved African Americans?
They are not citizens- they are property.
What invention caused the demand for enslaved labor to skyrocket?
Cotton Gin
What horrific journey transported enslaved Africans to the Americas?
Middle Passage
What government program provided education, medical care, and labor help to formerly enslaved people?
Freedmen's Bureau
To annex a territory means to do what?
Add land
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Abraham Lincoln
What is Urbanization?
The growth of cities
What discriminatory laws controlled African Americans in the South?
Black Codes
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship and what protection under the law?
Equal Protection
When a government cedes territory, what happens?
Give up land
What did the Fugitive Slave Act require?
Return escaped slaves
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Industrialization
Generational slavery where people were treated like property is called what?
Chattel Slavery
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Popular Sovereignty