Expansion & Slavery Tensions
This 1803 land deal added 828,000 square miles west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Lincoln was elected in this year.
What is 1860?
The Civil War began with this battle on April 12, 1861.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This speech by Lincoln was given at the dedication of a cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This group wanted a strong central government.
Federalists
The Missouri Compromise outlawed slavery north of this line.
What is the 36º30' line?
The South feared Lincoln would interfere with this state power.
What is the power to keep slavery?
These were the two sides in the Civil War.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address after this battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This group wanted a weaker central government and stronger state governments.
Anti-Federalists
These two states were added under the Missouri Compromise—one free, one slave.
What are Maine and Missouri?
Southern states threatened to do this if Abraham Lincoln was elected.
What is secede from the Union?
The Civil War included battles and these along U.S. coasts.
What are blockades?
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln shifted the war’s purpose to include this idea.
What is promoting equality and freedom?
This was the first colony and settlement of North America
Virginia colony, Jamestown settlement
This 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This Confederate general surrendered to end the war.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while attending this type of event.
What is a theater performance?
The first constitution of the United States.
Articles of Confederation
Abolitionists were angry about Kansas and Nebraska voting for slavery because under this earlier agreement, those states would have been free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Southern leaders feared Lincoln’s election was the first step toward this.
What is abolition of slavery?
The Civil War ended on this date, at the Appomattox Court House.
What is April 9, 1865?
He assassinated President Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
First Battle of the Revolutionary War
Battle of Lexington and Concord