Manifest Destiny & Expansion
What was the idea that the U.S. was destined to expand westward across the continent?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What document freed slaves in Confederate states in 1863?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What 1860 event triggered the secession of Southern states?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
What amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
What is the 15th Amendment?
What campaign slogan demanded all of Oregon up to the northern border with Canada?
What is “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”?
What political party wanted to stop the spread of slavery but not abolish it where it existed?
What is the Free-Soil Party?
What law required Northerners to return escaped slaves to the South?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What 1863 battle was the turning point in the Civil War?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
What group used violence to stop Reconstruction efforts?
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
What proposed law tried to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico?
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
What network helped enslaved people escape to freedom?
What is the Underground Railroad?
What was the Union’s 3-part plan to defeat the Confederacy?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What government agency helped freed slaves after the Civil War?
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What antislavery figure led a failed raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
Who is John Brown?
What Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
What was the South’s strategy to win foreign support during the Civil War?
What is Cotton Diplomacy?
What laws restricted African Americans' rights in the South?
What are Black Codes?
What was the major result of the Mexican-American War in 1848?
What is the Mexican Cession?
What violent event in Congress involved a senator being beaten with a cane?
What is the Caning of Sumner?
What 1852 novel increased Northern opposition to slavery?
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
What general led a destructive march through Georgia?
Who is William T. Sherman?
What 1877 agreement ended Reconstruction?
What is the Compromise of 1877?