The Belief that the United States had a "God" given right to expand westward due to their Racial, Cultural, Political superiority.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
This was paid for by the Federal Govt. to connect the US from East coast to West coast and helped settlers migrate into new western territories.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
100
A compromise that ended the dispute over the land gained by the United States with the Mexican Cession.
What is the Compromise of 1850
100
The best advantage for the Confederacy during the war which resulted in superior military leadership during the early part of the war.
Who is Robert E. Lee
100
This outlawed slavery in the United States before the end of the Civil War.
What is 13th Amendment
200
The largest sectional debate over westward expansion.
What is Slavery
200
The political group who targeted new immigrants and demanded economic and political restrictions on them.
Who are the Nativists or Know Nothing Party
200
The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 because it attempted to force northerners to assist southern slave owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
200
The person who helped lead the Union to victory and earned the nickname "The Butcher" for his relentless battle strategy.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
200
Created a labor system similar to slavery in the South after the passage of the 13th Amendment which forced slaves back onto plantations for work.
What is Sharecropping
300
An example of a military initiative used to expand the United States territoriality.
What is the Mexican-American War
300
US government policy for which group of people included Relocation, Concentration and Elimination.
Who are Native Americans
300
An example of the violence caused by the Idea of Popular Sovereignty that included events like the Lawrence and Pottawatomie Massacres and the Sumner Caining in Congress.
What is Bleeding Kansas
300
An order by President Lincoln that freed all the slaves in States of rebellion after the Battle of Antietam.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
The president who was almost impeached because of his resistance to Reconstruction and the battle over control between him and Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson
400
One goal of US westward expansion was to increase world trade and gain access to which body of water in order to trade with Asia.
What is the Pacific Ocean
400
Encouraged Americans to migrate into new western territories because the federal government provided free land.
What is the Homestead Act
400
A Supreme Court Case that ruled slaves were NOT citizens, had no rights and were considered property that could be taken into any territory or state.
What is the Dred Scott Case
400
This included the Anaconda Plan, controlling the Mississippi River, war of attrition in order to achieve victory.
What is the Union Strategy
400
This ended Reconstruction in the South after the controversial Election of 1876.
What is the Compromise of 1877
500
An example of a diplomatic initiative in which the United States gained new territory and access to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Oregon Treaty
500
Religious group of people who were discriminated against and moved out West for religious freedom.
Who are the Mormons
500
A failed attempt to restrict slavery into the land acquired by the Mexican Cession.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
500
An example of Total War used by the Union army against the South which destroyed anything in its path. railroads, resources, plantations and homes.
What is Sherman's March
500
Group of people who resisted the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments because they were left out.