Manifest Destiny and Expansion
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848 and added vast territories to the United States
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe intensified Northern opposition to slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This 1863 proclamation declared freedom for slaves in Confederate-held territories.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
This 1857 decision ruled that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens.
Dred Scott Decision
This 1846 proposal sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
This 1850 legislation required Northerners to assist in capturing and returning escaped slaves, intensifying sectional tensions.
Fugitive Slave Act
This 1863 battle marked a turning point in the Civil War and ended Confederate advances into the North.
The Battle of Gettysburg
This amendment granted voting rights to all male US citizens
the 15th Amendment
This Confederate general surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
Robert E. Lee
This ruling upheld the right of states to regulate commerce under the “Granger Laws.”
Munn v Illinois
This belief justified U.S. expansion westward as a divine mission.
This 1857 Supreme Court decision denied African Americans citizenship and invalidated the Missouri Compromise.
Dred Scott Decision
his Union general’s “March to the Sea” devastated Georgia during the Civil War.
William Tecumseh Sherman
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
This radical Republican leader in the House of Representatives pushed for equal rights during Reconstruction.
Thaddeus Stevens
This court decision invalidated the Civil Rights Act of 1875, leading to legalized segregation.
The Civil Rights Cases
This 1854 purchase added land in present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico to the U.S. for railroads.
Gadsden Purchase
This 1859 raid aimed to initiate a slave rebellion by seizing a federal arsenal in Virginia.
John Brown's Raid or Harper's Ferry Raid
This act passed in 1862 provided 160 acres of land to settlers who improved it for five years.
The Homestead Act
This agency assisted freedmen and poor whites in the South after the Civil War.
The Freedman's Bureau
This president’s impeachment in 1868 stemmed from his opposition to Radical Reconstruction policies.
Andrew Johnson
This 1873 set of decisions weakened the protections of the 14th Amendment by narrowing its interpretation.
The Slaughterhouse Cases
This territory’s gold rush in 1849 spurred rapid migration and statehood debates.
California
This political party, founded in the 1850s, opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories.
The Republican Party
This strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River to strangle the Confederacy.
The Anaconda Plan
These laws, passed in Southern states during Reconstruction, restricted the rights of African Americans.
Black Codes
This abolitionist and women’s rights advocate delivered the famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
Sojourner Truth
This 1866 case declared that military tribunals could not try civilians when civil courts were open.
Ex parte Milligan