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The US and the World
Increased Sectionalism
Compromise/Conflict
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Northern social group who formed the basis of its free-labor manufacturing economy
Who are immigrants
100
Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its legality in this area
What is the territories
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 in the government who believed that African Americans should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment

Who are Radical Republicans

200

White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law making land cheap if you farmed it

What is the Homestead Act

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

This brutal military campaign sought to inflict misery on Southern civilians to break their commitment to keep fighting 

What is Sherman's March to the Sea?

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

This was its own independent republic for almost ten years following its independence from Mexico and prior to its annexation by the United States

What is the Republic of Texas (Lone Star Republic)?

300

This event marked a dark milestone in the violent sectionalism in the United States government -- victim nearly died from injuries

What is the caning of Charles Sumner?

300
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
300

The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union in 1863

What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg

300

This labor system replaced slavery for agriculture in the South

What is sharecropping

400

Whigs in the Senate rejected this treaty, which  ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

400

This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war. South never developed these as much as the North, which lowered their chances in the war

What are railroads

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

Name three advantages the North had over the South in the Civil War? 

What are population, manufacturing, banking, credit, transportation, etc. 

400

This ultimately killed Reconstruction 

What is the Compromise of 1877

500

What three things did Manifest Destiny want to spread across the entire continent? (All based on ideas of white supremacy) 

Christianity, Capitalism, and Democracy 

500
The three main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons
500
Three major events caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Bloody Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, and the formation of the Republican Party
500

The threefold purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation

What is discourage foreign assistance to the South, cause economic and social unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war to be about morality and ending slavery

500
Name two successes of Reconstruction and two failures of Reconstruction

Amendments, political participation, election of Black officials, education through Freedmens Bureau, KKK, violence, failure to enforce amendments after 1877, Black Codes, Jim Crow, voter suppression, white Redeemer governments