America & National Idenity
This belief, popular in the 1800s, held that the U.S. had a divine mission to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This communication invention by Samuel Morse revolutionized long-distance messaging.
What is Telegram?
What ammendment abolished slavery?
What group traveled to Utah searching for religious freedom?
Who were the Mormons?
What purchase doubled the U.S land in 1803?
What is the Louisiana Purchase
This idea justified U.S. expansion as spreading democracy and civilization, often ignoring Native rights.
What is American exceptionalism?
This economic philosophy supported minimal government interference.
What is Laissez-faire?
This period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and integrating freed slaves.
What is reconstruction?
This forced relocation moved Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.
What is The Trail of Tears
What river helped trade become very popular?
What is the Mississippi River
Which Amendment, ratified after the Civil War, granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S?
What is the 14th Amendment?
This labor system relied on workers renting land and paying with crops after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
This stated that states could nullify federal laws with which they disagreed
What is Nullification?
This term describes the movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities.
What is The Great Migration?
Why did so many people go west to California?
What is Gold?
This Supreme Court case established “separate but equal,” shaping national identity during segregation.
What is "Plessy v Ferguson"?
This business strategy involves controlling all aspects of production
What is vertical integration?
What Proclamation freed the slaves in Confederate states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This term describes the belief that immigrants threaten American jobs and culture
What is Nativism?
What law encouraged settlement of the Great Plains by offering free land?
What is the Homestead Act
Which Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens before the Civil War?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This act gave land grants to build railroads, accelerating industrial expansion.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This political party was formed in the 1850s in opposition to the expansion of slavery.
What is the Republican Party
This political party of the 1850s was strongly anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
What project drastically altered the environment and connected ecosystems across the U.S?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?