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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
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

This formerly enslaved man was an abolitionist and famous writer

Who is Frederick Douglas

200

Lincoln's primary goal in the early years of the war

What is keep the Union together

200

This president's election ended reconstruction

Who is Rutherford B Hayes 

300
An example of a new economic opportunity in the new western territories acquired by the United States.
What is Mining
300

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

300

The use of the Underground Railroad was in direct conflict with what law passed by the United States.

What is the fugitive slave act

300

This attack by the South is considered the beginning of the Civil War.

Attack on Fort Sumter

300

The political group who wanted to impeach President Andrew Johnson and pushed for military occupation of the South.

The Radical Republicans

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 key victory for the Union Army that gave them control of the Mississippi River.

What is the Battle of Vicksburg

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

This was implemented in the South after the Radical Republicans took control over Reconstructions from President Johnson into 5 zones

Military Reconstruction

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Name 6 modern day states that territory was acquired from manifest destiny (1819-1853

 Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, California Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Washington

500

Northern politicians who were against President Lincoln and the war. Wanted it to end peacefully

Who are the Copperheads

500

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

My old Kentucky Home or What is Uncle "Tom's Cabin"

500

Policy of the Republican party. It aimed to outlaw slavery in any new territory. There was once a party named after this. 

What is Free Soil

500

2 of the 3 shortcomings from reconstruction mentioned in class

What is Rise of KKK, Black Codes and Sharecropping