Land acquired from Mexico in 1853 for the purposes of building the Transcontinental Railroad
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
100
He was declared "property" by the Supreme Court in 1857.
Who was Dred Scott?
100
The first battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
100
This change to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the United States in 1865
What is the 13th amendment?
100
An "angel" modeled in the classical style of Greece and Rome
What is the central figure from the Manifest Destiny painting?
200
Although the border was not established at 54'40", this land was added to the USA after a boundary dispute with the British was settled in 1846.
What is the state of Oregon (or Oregon territory)?
200
Debate over this legislative decision led to violence in the West and violence in the legislature itself.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This finally convinced the French and English that they could definitely not recognize or support the Confederate States of America.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
One of these enforced segregation while the other limited the rights and freedoms of black Americans.
What is the difference between Black Codes and Jim Crow laws?
200
Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
What were the first states to secede following Lincoln's election in 1860?
300
Volunteer cavalrymen slaughtered Cheyenne and Arapahoe women and children in the name of protection of homesteaders in Colorado in 1864.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
300
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision regarding California statehood.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Marked a turning point in the Civil War: from a war to preserve the Union to a war for a United States free of slavery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
President Andrew Johnson was nearly impeached when he violated this congressional effort to limit his power by dismissing Secretary of War Stanton.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
300
These two political parties formed for very specific reasons in the antebellum period: no slavery in the territories and no immigration.
What are the Freesoil and Know-Nothing parties?
400
The Homestead Act in 1862 was very much like this policy/system from colonial Jamestown aimed at attracting settlers from England.
What is the headright system?
400
This failed attempt to abolish slavery in all new territories acquired from Mexico was NOT added to the Compromise of 1850.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
400
This held freedmen captive in a system of sharecropping that was virtual enslavement; much like the serfs of the medieval feudal system.
What is a freedman's contract or work contract?
400
Those who wanted to restore white rule in the South in order to help the South recover after the Civil War.
What is "redemption" or "redeemers?"
400
Slavery stifled Southern economic growth and there were so many slaves that an uprising was inevitable.
What are two Southern critiques of slavery?
500
American spread its foreign trade and asserted its dominance of white supremacy with this 1854 event.
What is the Matthew Perry expedition to Japan (or Gunboat Diplomacy)?
500
In 1846, these two men got into a skirmish on the floor of the House of Representatives over the issue of using popular sovereignty to make decisions about slavery in the territories.
Who are Charles Sumner (R-MA) and Preston Brooks (D-SC)?
500
Lincoln violated many civil liberties when he believed it was for the general good of the country, including this right to not be held in prison without a fair trial.
What is habeas corpus?
500
This modern historian believed the Reconstruction was a "splendid failure" that brought up issues of "citizenship, rights and democracy" we still need to discuss today.
Who is Eric Foner?
500
Nicknames given to Northerners who wanted to either help the South or profit from their misfortune and Southerners who supported Republican regimes.