Era of Expansion
True or False: Many Founding Fathers assumed slavery would exist forever.
False: Many thought that it would disappear as tobacco cultivation became less profitable.
What famous abolitionist coordinated the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown
What does "secession" mean?
To leave something
What is the forced separation of the races called?
Segregation
True or False: The majority of Americans lived in cities by the year 1900
What invention made it easier to harvest cotton, which led to the expansion of slavery?
What law got rid of the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
The Battle of Gettysburg
What was the 14th Amendment?
Gave citizenship to all people born in the United States, regardless of race
What is it called when you move to another country to live there permanently?
Immigration
What compromise divided the country into half free and half slave states?
Missouri Compromise
What was the mini Civil War that began after the Kansas-Nebraska Act called?
Bleeding Kansas
What was the name of the country that Southern states called themselves during the Civil War?
The Confederacy
The Confederate States of America
What is the hatred of immigrants called?
Nativism
What were the laws that restricted the lives of slaves called?
Slave Codes
What did abolitionists believe?
That slavey needed to be ended immediately
After the Battle of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln signed what document freeing the slaves in the states that seceded?
Emancipation Proclamation
What important court case established the idea of "separate but equal" and legalized segregation?
What is industrialization?
The transition from a farming society to an industrial one (factories).
What were the owners of plantations called?
Planters
What series of debates made Abraham Lincoln into a national celebrity?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Fill in the blank: In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln called for a new _________ of ___________.
A New Birth of Freedom
What government agency helped former slaves educate themselves and build a life after slavery?
The Freedmen's Bureau
What law limited Chinese immigration to the United States for 60 years?
The Chinese Exclusion Act