People
The first republican president
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Asian country significant in expanding American influence and trade worldwide
What is China?
The two opposing armies in the Civil War
Who were the union and the confederacy?
The document that dissolved slavery
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the 15th amendment?
Groups that became “Americanized” through forced schooling, abandonment of their land, and only being allowed to speak the English language
Who were the Native Americans?
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo led to this acquisition of land where the US gained new territories
What is the Mexican Cession?
The war that resulted in the gain of western territories to the United States, including what is now California, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada
What was the Mexican American War?
The bill that added California into the Union as a free state
What is the compromise of 1850?
This farming system kept many Southern Black families in poverty after the war
What is sharecropping?
People from Europe escaped famine and contributed strongly to the industrialization of the urban United States
Who were the Irish?
After the Mexican-American War these people lived in the newly acquired territories and struggled with discrimination and loss of land.
Who are Mexican-Americans?
Famous battle from the Civil War marking a significant turning point and leading to the wars end
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
The belief that the US is destined by God to expand its territory and democratic beliefs across North America
What is the Manifest Destiny?
Americans belief in gaining more territory
What is expansionism?
Prominent Civil War general, famous for his war tactics involving simultaneous attacks, destruction of Confederate infrastructure, and unconditional surrender
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This 1861 diplomatic crisis involved the Union navy capturing Confederate envoys from a British ship.
What is the Trent affair?
Considered the bloodiest single-day battle in American history
What is the battle of Antietam?
The act that repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories while also allowing popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska act?
This election directly caused southern secession
What is the election of 1860?
American abolitionist and author of the famous novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Treaty solidifying US acquisition of Mexican territory, including Texas, after the Mexican American War.
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
President that requested Congress declare war on Mexico after claiming U.S. troops were attacked on U.S. soil
Who is James Polk?
Political party that opposed expanding slavery into any Western territories of the United States
What is the Free Soil Party?
The period after the Civil War when the US attempted to rebuild
What is reconstruction?