Westward Expansion
What did Thomas Jefferson purchase from Napoleon in 1803?
Name one Native American Tribe we talked about this semester.
Sioux, Cherokee, Apache...
What European country did the U.S. go to war with in the 1890's?
Spain
What document declared American independence from England?
The Declaration of Independence
What document freed the slaves in Southern states?
The Emancipation Proclamation
Name one state created by the Mexican-American War.
Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada
What was the name of the deadly march endured by thousands of Cherokee when they were removed from their homelands?
The Trail of Tears
What country did the U.S. annex after the Spanish-American War?
The Philippines
What country was created out of the only successful slave revolt in history?
Haiti
Name one advantage the South had during the Civil War.
Internal supply lines, strong leaders, high morale
What was the name of the idea that the U.S. was meant to expand across the American continent?
What freed slave learned how to read and write and wrote a now-famous slave narrative?
Frederick Douglass
Why did the U.S. annex Hawaii?
Name one cause of the Haitian Revolution.
French Revolution, affranchis ambition, European wars
What was the primary cause of the Civil War?
What was the name of the American foreign policy position which interpreted any European intervention in the Americas as an act of aggression?
The Monroe Doctrine
What is the name of the protested pipeline built across Sioux land in North Dakota?
The Dakota Access Pipeline
What so-called "scientific" theory was used to justify colonialism on a racial basis?
Social Darwinism
What was the name of the most prominent leader in the Haitian Revolution? (hint: he was born a slave)
Toussaint Louverture
What did the 14th and 15th amendments do?
14th- Made all men equal citizens, regardless of race
15th- Gave Black men the right to vote
What act attempted to answer the question of whether or not slavery could expand into the West in 1820?
The Missouri Compromise
What exploitative agricultural system replaced slavery after the Civil War?
Sharecropping
Who wrote "The White Man's Burden"?
Rudyard Kipling
What Enlightenment philosopher most influenced Simon Bolivar's worldview?
Jacques Rousseau
Name a general from each side of the Civil War.
North- Ulysses S. Grant, Tecumseh Sherman
South- Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson