The Civil War
The section of the United States that believed that slavery was a better deal than being a waged laborer.
What was the South?
The main cause of Conflict Between Western Settlers and Native Americans and Mexican Americans.
What are Natural Recources?
The election of this president led to session of southern states
Who was Abraham Lincoln
Gave all male citizens the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This allowed Voters in Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted slavery to be allowed in their state.
The act that aided in the construction of a transcontinental railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
What was the Pacific Railroad act of 1862
Abraham Lincoln made a famous speech at this battleground.
What is Gettysburg?
Laws made in the South to limit the rights of African Americans
What were Black Codes?
The Treaty that gave Mexicans who lived on ceded land the opportunity to become United States Citizens
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
The General who replaced George B. McClellan
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
A post Civil War act that gave Americans 160 acres of land in the West in exchange for them up keeping the land for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
The party created from the Free Soil Movement.
What was the Republican Party?
An Organization that was formed in the South to terrorize African Americans.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
The law That admitted California as a free state, and allowed popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah
What what the compromise of 1850?