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Territorial Expansion
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 made up the basis of its manufacturing economy

Who are immigrants

100

Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its legality in these areas

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 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

American who brought settlers to Texas and aided in the eventual Texas revolution

Who is Stephen F. Austin

300

This phrase was used by Southerners to justify slavery in the South

What is "positive-good"

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

This Union victory gave Lincoln the opportunity to change the tide of the war

What is Antietam

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

This treaty, which effectively ended the Mexican-American War, 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

This was the reason why so many rioted in NYC and referred to the Civil War as a "Rich Man's war, but a poor man's fight"

What was the $300 draft payout

400

The underlying political question that plagued all laws and decisions leading up to the Civil War

What is federal versus state power 

500

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

What is "God given rights"/cultural superiority of Whites

500

The main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good

What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons

500

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

What was the reasoning for the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation

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

500

This individual became the first African-American to serve in the US Senate during the Reconstruction Era

Who is Hiram Revels