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Westward Expansion
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This word is a synonym for opposite.
What is opposing. #21
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The belief that the United States should expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny? #1
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She was a pioneer nurse who founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton? #24
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wanted freedom from Mexico so they could keep their slaves
Who are Americans living in Texas? #3
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This battle took place in the North.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg? #15
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Specific land the United States government forced Native Americans to move to.
What is a reservation? #4
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These people traveled West for gold
Who are the Forty-Niners? #23
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This person was an African-American social reformer, speaker, writer and statesman.
Who is Fredrick Douglas? #25
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This was a time of violent fighting over slavery in Kansas.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"? #6
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This saying refers to the color of the soldiers uniforms.
What is “the blue and the gray”? #14
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This state became a part of the United States when we acquired it from Spain
What is Florida? #2
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These people worked on building the transcontinental railroad.
What are Chinese immigrants? #24
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This person was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War
Who is Harriet Tubman? #21
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This had more plantations than the North
What is the South? #7
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This was the greatest cause of death for Civil War soldiers
What is disease? #16
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This term was used to describe the people in the North who could pick their own jobs
What is "free labor"? #8
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these people taught newcomers to the West the skills to be cowboys
Who are the Mexicanos? #5
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This person was an author and social activist best known for her popular anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe? #9
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The goal of this compromise was to keep an equal number of slave states and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise? #26
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The purpose of this system was to get enough soldiers for the war.
What is the draft? #13
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People who spoke out against slavery were called this
What is an abolitionist? #10
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This group of people settled in Utah.
Who are the Mormons? #11
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This person was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
Who is Abraham Lincoln? #20
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This group was most angry about the election of Abraham Lincoln
Who are the southern slave owners? #18
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This was an order by the president to free slaves in the South
What is Emancipation Proclamation? #12