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a widely held belief that expanding West and incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God

What is Manifest Destiny

100

California was admitted as a free state, land acquired from Mexico was set up as territories and slavery was decided by popular sovereignty. Also strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law.

What was the Compromise of 1850?

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

This person was elected in 1870 to the seat the Jefferson Davis once held. 

Hiram Revels 

100

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

Jefferson Davis

100

A conductor on the Underground Railroad. She led hundreds of enslaved men, women, and children to the north. 

Harriet Tubman 

200

White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law

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
The strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
200

Who was elected President of the United States in 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

200

Was a consultant to Abraham Lincoln and convinced Lincoln that black folks should be able to serve in the Union Army. He would eventually write an autobiography. 

Frederick Douglass 

300

Law that attempted to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico. It was passed by the house and rejected by the senate.

What is the Wilmot Proviso?

300

This political party was founded on the platform of "free soil, free labor, and free men." Wanted to prevent slavery in the West, so that white settlers had job opportunities. Not against slavery in the South.

What is the Free Soil Party?

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
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg
300

Organization that supported and educated formerly enslaved persons and poor whites in the South.

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

300

Who was President Abraham Lincoln's Vice President?

Andrew Johnson

300

Elected to a senate seat in Mississippi. This was the former seat of Jefferson Davis. 

Hiram Revels 

400

Whigs in the Senate rejected this treaty, which effectively 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

What are railroads

400
The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
What is enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
400
The Civil War event that makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare
What are the Draft Riots in NYC
400

Three aspects of Congressional Reconstruction.

South split up into 5 military districts, Disenfranchisement of former Confederates, New state Constitutions including black suffrage, 13th and 14th amendment. 

400

Who was elected President of the United States in 1869 during Reconstruction?

Ulysses S. Grant

400

First black regiment to fight in the Union Army. Sometimes credited with turning the tide of the war. 

The 54th regiment. 

500

The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny can be linked to this belief - a continuity from colonial times

What is racial/cultural superiority

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, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war
500

Three reasons why Reconstruction Failed

Confederate southerners regain control of southern politics, white supremist terrorist organizations, failure to protect the rights of black folks, black codes, sharecropping. 

500

This president held the office prior to Abe Lincoln 

James Buchanan 

500

Became the first African American doctor in the Union Army. He was initially denied entry into US medical school, so he traveled to Canada for school. He later returned to serve in the US Army. 

Alexander Augusta