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Westward Expansion
The Civil War
Abolition Movement
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Reconstruction
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A territory annexed by the United States that led to increased debate over slavery and the Mexican-American War.

What is Texas?

100
A larger population, army, amount of resources and industrialization were all advantages for the
What is the Union or the North
100

An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by aiding in the escape of slaves to the North.

What is the Underground Railroad or Harriet Tubman

100
The final event the forced the secession by South Carolina and eventually several other southern states.
What is the Election of 1860
100

These abolished slavery, made all people born in the US a citizen, and gave them the right to Vote.

What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments or the Reconstruction Amendments? 

200
The land given to the United States after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession
200

This document shifted the moral focus of the war and declared a enslaved people in states in rebellion free

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

200
The person who was the number 1 defender of slavery and proclaimed it was a "positive good".
Who is John C. Calhoun
200

This Supreme Court case declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and contended that enslaved people were property without constitutional rights.

Who is Dred Scott?, or What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?

200

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction that Radical Republicans felt were too lenient. 

What the 10% Plan? 

300

Concept that God wanted the United States to expand its territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast.

What is Manifest Destiny?

300
A key victory for the Union Army that gave them control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg
300
This novel written by Harriett Beecher Stowe illuminated the harshness and brutality of slavery in the South

What is Uncle "Tom's Cabin"?

300
The platform of the Republican Party in the Election of 1860 which focused on outlawing the expansion of slavery into new territories in the West.
What is the Free Soil Platform
300

This political agreement ended Reconstruction when Democrats conceded the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South

What is the Compromise of 1877?

400
An ideas used in the Compromise of 1850, Kansas and Nebraska that allowed citizens in those territories to vote and decide if they wanted to accept or prohibit slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty
400
A speech by President Lincoln that reaffirmed the new purpose of the war and encouraged Americans the war was needed to fulfill Americas Democratic ideals.
What is the Gettysburg Address
400
An example of Abolitionist's efforts to fight slavery by using violence against the supporters of slavery.
Who is John Brown or What is the Attack on Harper's Ferry
400

A very controversial slavery compromise that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty in states above the 36'30 line

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

400
The political group who wanted to impeach President Andrew Johnson and pushed for military occupation of the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans
500

A legislative proposal to outlaw slavery in the land gained by Mexican Cession.

What is the Wilmot Proviso?

500

The place where Confederate Gen. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Grant ending the Civil War

What is Appomattox, or Appomattox Court House?

500
This legislation was a part of the Compromise of 1850 and federally mandated that escaped slaves be returned to their Southern plantation. 

What is the Fugitive Slave Law?

500
This attack by the South is considered the beginning of the Civil War.
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter
500

The use of the KKK, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, the Grandfather Clause and Segregation to limit African-American's new rights included in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are all of 

What is Southern Resistance?