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A widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God

What is Manifest Destiny

100
This group of people filled the factories in the North and formed the basis of its free-labor manufacturing economy
What are immigrants
100
This war caused increased tensions over the expansion of slavery.
What is the Mexican American War
100
These made all people born in the US a citizen and gave them the right to Vote. (two answers)
What are the 14th and 15th Amendment
100
This amendment officially outlawed slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment
200

This ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

200
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
Who is John Brown
200
The nickname of the outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is "Bleeding Kansas"
200
Examples of ways in which white southerners limited African American voting rights (name at least 2)
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause
200
The political group who wanted to impeach President Andrew Johnson and pushed for military occupation of the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans
300
This was the first effort to settle the dispute over the expansion of slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise
300
The Supreme Court decision that declared people of African heritage could never be citizens and also repealed the Missouri Compromise
What is the Dred Scott decision
300
This turning point on January 1, 1863 during the Civil War changes the war into a war about slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
This was implemented in the South after the Radical Republicans took control over Reconstructions from President Johnson.
What is the establishment of Military Districts/Reconstruction
300
This system required former slaves rent small plots of land, to work themselves and in return, would give a portion of their crop to the landowner at the end of the year.
What is the sharecropping system
400
This portion of the Compromise of 1850 angered and rallied abolitionists in the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act.
400
The idea that states should decide whether they want to be a free state or slave state
What is popular sovereignty
400

The final event that forced the secession of South Carolina and eventually several other southern states.

What is the Election of 1860

400
Examples include Vagrancy laws, limited access to the court system, limitations/restrictions on firearms
What are the black codes
400
This event marked the end of Reconstruction
What is the Bargain of 1877/Rutherford B Hayes election
500
Introduced by a Congressman to ban slavery in the new territory acquired by Mexico - it passed in the House but failed in the Senate
What is the Wilmot Proviso
500
The platform of the Republican Party in the Election of 1860 which focused on outlawing the expansion of slavery into new territories in the West.
What is the Free Soil Platform
500
The three provisions of the Compromise of 1850
What are What are California admitted as a free state, Fugitive Slave Act, new territories of the Mexican Cession to decide slave/free state through popular sovereignty.
500
This organization was established after Reconstruction began in an attempt to change/improve race relations in the South (although it was not successful at this)
What is the Freedman's Bureau
500
Law passed by Congress in 1867 that did not allow the President to remove office holders without the approval of the Senate
What is Tenure of Office Act