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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/western states

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
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
300
Matthew Perry, a US Navy Commodore, sailed to this Asian country in 1851 to trade American manufactured goods for steel.

What is Japan

300

John Brown invaded this Virginia armory to steal weapons in the hopes of starting a slave rebellion.

What is Harper's Ferry

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
The causation of the sharecropping system in the South (causes and effect)
What is need for workers and need for land resulting in economic dependency
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

The next president following Lincoln's assassination

Who is Andrew Johnson

500

These two countries attempted to financial back the Confederacy during the Civil War, but were swayed by Sec. of State William Seward.

What is Great Britain and France

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

Internal fighting in 1850s Kansas over the state's status of slavery.

What is Bloody Kansas

500

The TWO purposes of the Emancipation Proclamation

What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war

500

An organization(s) that formed following the end of the Civil War that targeted and attacked African Americans.

What is the Ku Klux Klan or the White League