Anglo-American cultural and racial superiority is an underlying message of this belief.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This is the nickname of the majority party in Congress during Reconstruction.
What are the Radical Republicans?
100
This is the reason why during the Civil War, Congress was the most productive in history.
What is a single party legislature? All the Democrats had left when the South seceded.
100
This plan enables each new state to determine whether it will allow slavery or not by the vote of its citizens.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
"Fifty-four forty or fight!" was a slogan coined to garner support for this.
What is the taking of the Oregon Territory?
200
This is what the Confederacy depended on to finance the war and persuade foreign nations to support their cause.
What is King Cotton?
200
This was created by Congress to aid displaced blacks and other war refugees.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
This means that paper notes of currency are backed by gold held in a bank's vaults.
What is the gold standard?
200
This 3rd party believed that slavery was a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a free-holder society.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
300
This bill that passed the House but failed in the Senate, banned slavery in any territory gained from the war with Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
This political party was seen only in the 1864 presidential election.
What is the National Union Party?
300
This required an oath of allegiance by a majority of each state's adult white men, a new government formed by those who had never taken up arms against the Union and permanent disenfranchisement of Confederate leaders.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
300
This gave 160 acres of federal land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
This created land-grant colleges that were paid for by selling federal land given to the states by the federal government to encourage growth in educational opportunities.
What is the Morrill Act?
400
This delayed the Civil War by 10 years.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
This was a last attempt to keep the Union together. This called for a constitutional amendment to protect slavery where it already existed and anywhere above the 36'30' line.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
400
These are known as the Civil War amendments and the first big steps towards Civil Rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
400
This was when ranchers hired cowboys to herd cattle hundreds of miles north to the rail lines in Abilene and Dodge City.
What is the Long Drive?
400
This was established as the first national park in 1872.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
500
This idea was that a territory could exclude slavery from its borders by simply not creating any laws to protect it, instead of saying that it would be illegal in the state Constitution. This is an attempt to bypass the Dred Scott decision.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
500
General Benjamin Butler is the first to label escaped slaves with this term which enabled the Union army to keep them since they were enemy property.
What are contrabands?
500
This event is what brought Reconstruction to an abrupt end.
What is the presidential election of 1876? OR what is the 2nd corrupt bargain?
500
This term refers to a great exodus of African Americans from Mississippi and Louisiana to the promised land of freedom to be found in Kansas.
What are Exodusters?
500
This movement fostered native peoples' hope that they could, through sacred dances, resurrect the bison and call a great storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.