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The US and the World
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Compromise/Conflict
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Northern social group who formed the basis of its free-labor manufacturing economy
Who are immigrants
100

Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its legality in this area

What are the territories

100
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
100

Group of politicians who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment

Who are Radical Republicans

200
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law
What is the Homestead Act
200
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
Who is John Brown
200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
200
The strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
200

These rights were granted by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights

300

A method used by the California state government to discourage Chinese miners. 

What is the foreign miners tax?

300

Name given to Southern states who's entire economy was devoted to cotton production

What is the Cotton Kingdom

300
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
300

The Northern victory that turned the tide of the war for the Union

What is Gettysburg 

300

The effects of the sharecropping system in the South. 

What is economic dependency and extreme poverty. 

400

This treaty effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

400

This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war

What are railroads

400
The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
What is enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
400

The lead general, and future president, for the North

Who is Ulysses S. Grant

400

Racial terror group that tried to undo the racial progress of Reconstruction 

What is the Ku Klux Klan
500

The last large military victory of the Plains nations over the US Army.

What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn/Battle of the Greasy Grass

500

The most famous leader, or "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, who also served as a military guide in the Civil War.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

500

This event was caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act

What is Bloody Kansas

500

The threefold purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation

What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war

500

The event that ended Reconstruction and withdrew Union troops from the South. 

The corrupt bargain of 1876.