Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Ch. 15
Mix of Different Chapters
100
this is the name for the idea that the US had a divine mission to extend its power and civilization across the breadth of north america
manifest destiny
100
What legislation was passed to make California a free state?
Compromise of 1850
100
Union General Winfield Scott's plan to blockade Southern ports and cut off Southern supplies was also called this
Anaconda Plan
100
What derogatory name did Southerners use for people from the South who supported the Republican Party?
Scalawags
100
Which Amendment prohibited voting rights discrimination based on race?
15th
200
James K. Polk used this campaign slogan in his 1844 presidential campaign to appeal to western and southern voters who favored expansion
"fifty-four forty or fight!"
200
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this popular novel in the 1850s, showing everyone in america the cruelty of slavery
uncle tom's cabin (1852)
200
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter (April 1861)
200
Which law placed the South under military occupation after the Civil War?
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
200
Who commandeered the CSS Planter to escape to freedom during the Civil War?
Rober Smalls
300
In the fist year of the Mexican-American War this Pennsylvania Congressman made a proposal to forbid slavery in any new territories acquired from Mexico
David Wilmot (Wilmot Proviso, 1846)
300
This is the name for letting a state's voters decide whether they want to be a slave state or free state
popular sovereignty
300
Which battle resulted in the Union taking control of the Mississippi River?
Vicksburg (May-July 1863)
300
Abraham Lincoln's lenient plan for reconstruction was written out in the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. Congress' harsher plan was written into this bill
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
300
Who beat Charles Sumner with a cane on the floor of Congress in 1856?
Preston Brooks
400
Which treaty granted the United States control of California, New Mexico, and Arizona?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
400
During the "Bleeding Kansas" period, this radical abolitionist led a violent attack on a proslavery farm settlement
John Brown
400
This 1863 battle marked the last time the South would ever go on the offensive and attack Northern territory
Gettysburg (July 1863)
400
Congress passed this law which established citizenship rights for African-Americans, shortly before the 14th Amendment went further and cemented these rights into the Constitution
Civil Rights Act of 1866
400
With whom did Abraham Lincoln have a series of debates with in 1858?
Stephen Douglas
500
This American led the Texas independence movement against mexico during the Texas Revolution
Sam Houston
500
A senator from Kentucky tried one last ditch effort to stop the South from seceding by suggesting a constitutional amendment to guarantee slavery in the south. What was the name for this plan?
Crittenden Compromise (John Crittenden)
500
Which slaves were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?
Slaves from border states
500
As a result of the Compromise of 1877, the Republicans received their candidate Rutherford B. Hayes as President, but the Democrats received...
the removal of Union troops from the South
500
Which stance on slavery advocated for the limitation of the expansion of slavery, but not the abolition of slavery where it existed?
Free Soil