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This belief held that Americans were destined to settle coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This conflict was criticized as an unjust war of aggression by the North.
What is the Mexican–American War?
This act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This battle, along with Vicksburg, marked the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Slogan used to demand full control of Oregon.
What is “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”?
This treaty ended the Mexican–American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe intensified antislavery sentiment.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This executive order freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This treaty ended the U.S.-British dispute over the Oregon Territory.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
The U.S. claimed this river as Texas’s southern boundary.
What is the Rio Grande?
This 1850 law required the return of escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This 1863 speech redefined the Civil War as a fight for democracy and equality.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
These laws restricted the rights of freedmen in the South after the war.
What are the Black Codes?
This 1853 purchase finalized the U.S.-Mexico border and enabled a southern railroad route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Proposed law that would have banned slavery in territory gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This abolitionist led a failed raid at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
The Union’s strategy to blockade and divide the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This agency provided aid and education to former slaves.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This president annexed Texas, sparking tensions with Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
This expansionist document tried to justify U.S. acquisition of Cuba.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
His March to the Sea devastated Georgia’s infrastructure and morale.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This political deal ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?