This event caused the largest expansion of the U.S. after the Louisiana Purchase and created more questions about the potential spread of slavery.
What is the Mexican-American War (or Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo)?
100
Lincoln's party
What is the Republican Party?
100
The second best-selling book of the 19th century (after the Bible) that moved moderate Northerners closer to the abolitionists' point-of-view.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
This event was the straw that broke the camel's back for the South and caused South Carolina to secede from the Union.
What is the election of President Lincoln in 1860?
100
Lincoln's idea for letting former Confederate states back into the Union.
What is the 10% Plan?
200
This idea for how to solve the issue of slavery in the new western territories was to outlaw it there entirely.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
200
This issue ultimately divided Whigs and led to their demise.
What is slavery?
200
This Supreme Court case decided that African Americans were not citizens and it repealed the Missouri Compromise by stating that slaves brought into free territories were still slaves.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
Lincoln suspended this in 1861 at the onset of the Civil War to secure Maryland for the Union.
What is habeas corpus?
200
Under President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction once southern states had ratified this they could reenter the Union.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
This idea for how to deal with slavery in the new western territories challenged the Missouri Compromise and suggested that slavery should be allowed in any western territory.
What is the Calhoun Doctrine?
300
This party was created during the 1850s and attracted several former Whigs. It was based on the nativist idea that immigrants should be excluded from the political process (particularly Catholic immigrants).
What is the American Party (Know-Nothing Party)?
300
The concept championed by Stephen Douglas for settling the slavery question in the territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This battle was the last attempt at a major southern offensive into northern territory. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
300
This process refers to the process in which conservative southern Democrats re-took control of southern state legislatures.
What is "Redemption?"
400
The most controversial component of the Compromise of 1850 that moved moderates in the North closer to the abolitionists' point-of-view on slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
400
Congressional Reconstruction was spearheaded by this group.
Who are "Radical Republicans?"
400
This event signaled the failure of civility in Congress and any hope for legislative compromise as the crisis in Kansas spilled over into the Senate.
What is the caning of Charles Sumner?
400
After a series of failed generals for the Union, this general used a total war strategy which was willing to suffer heavy casualties and cause the destruction of enemy territory to win the war.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
Freedmen who fled the South for economic opportunity in Kansas and other plains states.
Who are exodusters?
500
This was the capitol of the pro-southern state legislature in Kansas that sent a pro-slavery state constitution to Washington D.C.
What is Lecompton?
500
This third party was short-lived and later merged with the Republican Party. It was active from 1848-1852 to oppose the spread of slavery into western territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
500
Three years before attempting to launch a full-scale slave uprising after capturing the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, John Brown murdered five slaveholders in this town in Kansas.
What is Pottawatomie Creek?
500
This Northern general used "scorched earth" tactics in Georgia to break the will of southerners on his "March to the Sea."
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
500
Republicans in Congress passed three of these to combat white terrorism in the South. They largely went unenforced and the Supreme Court later declared them unconstitutional.