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widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God

What is the Manifest Destiny?

100

1857 Supreme Court case which ruled that people who were enslaved had no rights to citizenship and threatened to extend slavery everywhere in the United States

What was Dred Scott v Sanford?

100
The first battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
100

This is a form of farming that tied newly freed people to the land they work and tried to limit the social mobility of newly freed people

What is Sharecroppingt?

200

Although the border was not established at 54'40", this land was added to the USA after a boundary dispute with the British was settled in 1846.

What is the Oregon territory?

200
Debate over this legislative decision led to violence in the West and violence in the legislature itself.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200

This speech formalized the Union goal for the Civil War and symbolically ended slavery in the rebellious states.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

200

This compromise brought republican Rutherford B Hayes into the presidency and removed Union troops from the south, ending military reconstruction.

What is the Compromise of 1877?

300

treaty that ended the Mexican American War

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

300

The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision that also created California statehood.

What is the Compromise of 1850?

300

This constitutional amendment granted broad citizenship rights and sought to protect the equality of newly freed people under the law.

What is 14th Amendment?

400

inhabitants of a territory vote on issues, particularly slavery, when becoming a state.

What is popular sovereignty?

400

This older compromise was nullified by the Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Decision.

What was the Missouri Compromise?

400

This federal organization help freedmen find jobs, housing, and education after the end of slavery

What is the freedman's bureau?

400

This constitutional amendment gave all African American men the right to vote in 1870

What is 15th Amendment?

400

The President after Lincoln was assassinated, attempted a lenient version of reconstruction 

Who is Andrew Johnson?

500

name of the American purchase of Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico

What is the Gadsden Purchase?

500
Lincoln violated many civil liberties when he believed it was for the general good of the country, including this right to not be held in prison without a fair trial.
What is habeas corpus?