Causes of the Civil War
This group worked to end slavery in the United States.
What are abolitionists
The main cause of the Civil War was this issue.
What was slavery?
This plan for Reconstruction allowed southern states to reenter the Union after former Confederates formally ask the President for a pardon.
This was America's first governing document.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Thomas Jefferson completed this land purchase from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is exaggerated loyalty to the interests of a specific region over those of the entire country.
What is sectionalism?
The Fugitive Slave Act used federal power to do this.
What is return escaped enslaved people?
These laws restricted the rights of formerly enslaved people.
What are Black Codes?
This compromise created a two-house legislature with one house based on population and one with equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
This belief stated America had a mission to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This agreement admitted California as a free state and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The North's three-part strategy involving blockades and control of the Mississippi River was called this.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This organization provided schools, food, and jobs to formerly enslaved people.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This system elects the President of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
The Mexican-American War increased conflict over this issue.
What is the expansion of slavery?
This event in Kansas showed how popular sovereignty led to violent conflict over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This organization used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This branch can declare laws unconstitutional.
This industry changed the most during the First Industrial Revolution.
What is textiles?
This event made South Carolina the first state to leave the Union.
What is Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860?
This speech reframed the war as preserving democracy and equality.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This group supported equal rights and stronger protections for freed African Americans.
Who were Radical Republicans?
The phrase "We the People" demonstrates this constitutional principle.
What is popular sovereignty?
These groups of workers fought for better wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?