Manifest Destiny
What phrase expressed the belief that Americans were destined by God to expand westward?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
What is Fort Sumter?
What amendment abolished slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment?
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What law required citizens to help return runaway slaves?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act (1850)?
Which war resulted in the U.S. gaining California and the Southwest?
What is the Mexican-American War?
What 1863 battle was the turning point of the Civil War?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
What agency helped former slaves adjust to freedom by providing education and aid?
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Who was President of the U.S. during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What 1846–1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What 1862 battle in Maryland was the bloodiest single day of fighting?
What is the Battle of Antietam?
What laws in the South restricted the rights of freedmen?
What are the Black Codes?
Who became president after Lincoln’s assassination and was later impeached?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What Supreme Court case ruled African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
What land purchase from Mexico in 1853 completed the continental U.S.?
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
What Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi River?
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
What amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law?
What is the 14th Amendment?
What abolitionist led an 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry?
Who is John Brown?
What law divided the South into military districts during Reconstruction?
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Who was the president most associated with the expansionist agenda of Manifest Destiny?
Who is James K. Polk?
What campaign involved total war tactics and destroyed much of Georgia?
What is Sherman’s March to the Sea?
What agreement ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Who led the Union Army to victory and later became president?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What act prohibited the president from removing officials without Senate approval, leading to Johnson’s impeachment?
What is the Tenure of Office Act?