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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, mainly east coast individuals who formed the basis of its labor pool

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 deep South

What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln

100

Those who believed that freedmen 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 Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
200

What was the name of the overall Union strategy to win the Civil War?

What is the Anaconda Plan

200

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights

300

Who took control of California for the U.S. (he was also the Republican presidential candidate in 1856)

Who is John C. Fremont

300
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
300

The Dred Scott decision made unconstitutional which former Compromise?

What is the Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)

300

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

What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg

300

What system replaced slavery after ratification of the 13th Amendment?

What is sharecropping
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

Enforcement of Fugitive Slave Laws was a part of which major compromise?

What is the Compromise of 1850

400

What group was most likely to be involved in NYC draft riots?

Who are Irish immigrants

400

Southern name for northerners moving to the South to help with or profit from Reconstruction

What is carpetbagger

500

This 1853 deal with Mexico gave the U.S. land in present-day southern Arizona and southwest New Mexico in order to build a transcontinental railroad

What is the Gadsden Purchase

500

Who wrote the book that Lincoln "credited" with starting the Civil War?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

500

Which political party was formed as a reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

What is the Republican Party

500
What battle "allowed" for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to be announced?

What is the Battle of Antietam

500

Southern group that actively resisted Reconstruction in the South

Who is the Ku Klux Klan