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Westward Expansion
The Civil War
Abolition Movement
Causes of Civil War
Reconstruction
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A territory annexed by the United States that led to increased debate over slavery because it would upset the balance between Free and Slave states.
What is Texas
100

The side that had a larger population, army, amount of resources and industrialization were all advantages for the

What is the Union or the North

100
An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by aiding in the escape of slaves to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad or Harriet Tubman
100
The final event the forced the secession by South Carolina and eventually several other southern states.
What is the Election of 1860
100
These made all people born in the US a citizen and gave them the right to Vote.
What are the 14th and 15th Amendments
200
The land given to the United States after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession
200
After the Emancipation Proclamation, the purpose of the Civil War changed from keeping the Union together to
What is to end slavery
200

The South Carolina Senator who was the number one defender of slavery and proclaimed it was a "positive good".

Who is John C. Calhoun

200
After South Carolina and 10 other southern states seceded, the purpose of the war was to.
What is keep the Union together
200
The Supreme Court case that made segregation legal in the United States.
What Plessy v. Ferguson
300

An example of a new economic opportunity in the new western territories acquired by the United States.

What is Mining Gold or other precious metals?

300
A key victory for the Union Army that gave them control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg
300

An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by using moral arguments to challenge it.

Who is William Lloyd Garrison or What is Uncle "Tom's Cabin"

(other answers are also correct)

300

Abraham Lincoln was the first to win the Presidency representing this political party.

What is the Republican Party?

300
Segregation laws the South passed after Reconstruction ended to discriminate against African Americans.

What are Jim Crow laws?

400
An ideas used in the Compromise of 1850, Kansas and Nebraska that allowed citizens in those territories to vote and decide if they wanted to accept or prohibit slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty
400
A speech by President Lincoln that reaffirmed the new purpose of the war and encouraged Americans the war was needed to fulfill Americas Democratic ideals.
What is the Gettysburg Address
400
An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by using violence against the supporters of slavery.
Who is John Brown or What is the Attack on Harper's Ferry
400
A very controversial slavery compromise that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed a State north of the 36,30 line to become a slave territory.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
The political group who wanted to impeach President Andrew Johnson and pushed for military occupation of the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans
500
This became the justification behind Manifest Destiny and the takeover of Native and Mexican land.
What is Racial, Cultural and Political Supeirority
500
Northern politicians who were against President Lincoln and the war.
Who are the Copperheads
500
The use of the Underground Railroad was in direct conflict with what law passed by the United States.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
500
This attack by the South is considered the beginning of the Civil War.
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter
500

In response to terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Congress adopted these laws.

What are the Enforcement Acts?