Manifest Destiny
"54-40 or Fight" pushed him to the White House
Who is James K. Polk?
Incident where Confederate Diplomats were removed from a British ship
What is the Trent Affair?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Name for the Union strategy to defeat the South
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Site of last stand by Texans against Santa Anna
What is the Alamo?
The CSS Hunley was the first of this type of ship
What is a submarine?
Case where the Sup. Court ruled slavery could not be limited geographically
What is the Dred Scott Case?
New type of bullet that caused numerous amputations
When the Radicals took over, they divided the South into five ________ districts
What is military?
This golden state was the apple of Polk's wandering eye - leading to the Mexican War
What is California?
Caused a dispute with Britain when they pushed ship over Niagara Falls
What is the Caroline Affair?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Infamous (in the South) General who brought total war in his path
Who is William T. Sherman?
Created to educate former slaves; considered a success of Recon.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Treaty that ended the Mexican War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Ship commandeered by slaves and taken to Bahamas
What is the Creole Incident?
Scheme by Southern Pols to steal Cuba from Spain
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
Disastrous attack that cost Lee the Battle of Gettysburg
What is Pickett's Charge?
Leader of the Radical Republicans
Who is Thaddeus Stevens OR Charles Sumner?
The border with Canada was set here, giving Oregon territory to the US
What is 49 degrees?
Name for ONE of the Civil War Ironclads
What is the Monitor OR Merrimac?
S. Douglas angered the South by presenting this idea to ignore Dred Scott Decision
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
A heroic stand at this place on the Gettysburg battlefield saved the Union line
What is Little Round Top?
What is the Tenure of Office Act?