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Expansionism
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Reconstruction
100
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
100

This state was admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850

California

100

Who said in a speech in 1858 "A house divided against itself cannot stand, this country cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free"

Abraham Lincoln while running for Senate in 1858.

100
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
100

Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment

Who are Radical Republicans

200

This tract of land was acquired by the United States at the end of the Mexican-American War

the Mexican Cession

200
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
Who is John Brown
200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
200

The strategy that effectively stifled Southern resources by blocking ports and controlling the Mississippi River

 the Anaconda Plan 

200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
300

As a result of the gained territory at the end of the Mexican American War, what issue was thrust into the spotlight of political debates?

The expansion of slavery

300

Supreme Court case that said that African Americans could not be citizens

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

300

Leading up to the Civil War, it was clear that the North (Union) had many advantages including population, money, industry, railroads, a navy etc. 

What was the biggest advantage that the South had at the beginning?

Better Military Leadership

For Example: Robert E. Lee

300
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg
300

This is an economic system that assisted southern society in circumventing the new realities brought about by the 13th Amendment.

Sharecropping

400

The annexation of this eventual state and a dispute over its southern border is one of the causes of the Mexican American War

Texas

400

This was a book that was written in 1852 about the horrors of slavery and helped to spark recruitment toward the abolitionist movement

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

400
The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
What is enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
400

What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address?

To encourage the continued war effort. "These honored dead shall not have died in vain"

400

These were laws passed by southern local and state governments to limit the new found freedom of African Americans

Black Codes

500

Explain how ideas of Manifest Destiny can be linked to causing the Civil War

Reinsel will Judge

Manifest Destiny---> Gaining new territory---> debates over the expansion of slavery----> rising tension between state governments and federal government

500

This act was passed to establish a building of a railroad but also was passed to regulate a western territory and established that popular sovereignty would be used to determine if slavery would be permitted there. This had negative effects.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

500

This was a direct effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that could be described as a "mini Civil War"

Bleeding Kansas

500

Name one of the three main purposes of the Emancipation Proclamation

1.discourage foreign assistance

2. cause unrest in the South, runaway slaves

3.change the focus of the war

500
Name the events/acts that began and ended the military occupation of the southern states during Reconstruction
Reconstruction Act of 1867 

Compromise of 1877