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What document gave the U.S. more than 500,000 square miles once controlled by Mexico?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the idea that God had bestowed the entire continent to the Americans?
Manifest Destiny
What was the practice of giving people government jobson the basis of party loyalty?
Spoils System
What nickname did Southerners give white Southerners who worked with Republicans and supported Reconstruction?
Scalawags
What set new boundaries over where slavery was permitted in the Louisiana Purchase?
Missouri Compromise
What was the name of the political group that was anti-Catholic and pushed for laws banning immigrants from holding public office?
American Party or Know-Nothings
What was the landmark Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that living in a free territory did not make a slave free?
Scott vs. Sandford
After which battle did Confederate forces slowly retreat to the south never to threaten Union territory again?
Gettysburg
Who wrote the abolitionist novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Which Confederate general was in charge at both the Battle of Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg?
Robert E. Lee
Along what line did the British and the U.S. agree to divide the Oregon district?
49th Parallel
What Act divided much of the former Confederacy into 5 military districts?
Reconstruction Act
With Lincoln's assassination who became president of the U.S.?
Andrew Johnson
Which President signed the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
What agreement emerged that gave Hayes the presidency in exchange for removing federal troops form the south?
Compromise of 1877
What was the North's war strategy that called to divide the South so that it would gradually run out of resources and surrender?
The Anaconda Plan
What group worked to feed and clothe war refugees and helped formerly enslaved people?
Freedman Bureau
Resistance to Lincoln's plan for repairing the South came from what group in Congress?
Radical Republicans
What Civil War battle was the bloodiest one-day battle in American history?
Battle of Antietam
What was the forced march by the U.S. Government of the Cherokee people called?
Trail of Tears
Who was the abolitionist who seized an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in effort to start a slave uprising?
John Brown
Who were the two activists that organized the Seneca Falls Convention?
Elizabeth Caddy Stanton and Lucretia Mott
What were 4 advantages the North had over the South during the Civil War?
1. More People
2. More Railroad
3. More Industry
4. More Money
In what 4 ways was the Civil War considered the first modern war?
1. Fought with a large civilian army.
2. Required vast amounts of supplies.
3. Cone-shaped bullets much more accurate
4. Troops used trenches and barricades for protection.
Name and explain the 3 Amendments that came out during Reconstruction:
13th Amendment - Ended Slavery
14th Amendment - Gave everyone equal protection under the law regardless of race.
15th Amendment - Gave African American males the right to vote.