Expansion & Jackson
What belief stated that the United States was destined to expand across North America?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What was the movement to end slavery called?
What is Abolitionism?
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
What is Fort Sumter?
What federal agency provided assistance to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A map shows the Louisiana Purchase, Texas Annexation, Oregon Territory, Mexican Cession, and Gadsden Purchase. What historical idea BEST connects all of these acquisitions?
What is Manifest Destiny / westward expansion?
What law signed by Andrew Jackson authorized the relocation of Native Americans westward?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
What invention made cotton production more profitable and contributed to an increased demand for enslaved labor?
What is the Cotton Gin?
At the beginning of the war, what was Lincoln’s primary goal?
What is preserve the Union?
What farming system required farmers to give landowners a portion of their crops as payment?
What is Sharecropping?
A graph shows the North had significantly more factories and railroad mileage than the South. What wartime advantage did this provide?
What is the North could manufacture and transport troops, weapons, food, and supplies more effectively?
What forced migration moved the Cherokee and other Native peoples from the Southeast to Indian Territory?
What is the Trail of Tears?
What compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state?
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What Union strategy called for blockading Southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction called?
What are Scalawags?
Lincoln says that no state can legally leave the Union on its own. Which Southern political belief is he challenging?
What are states’ rights / the belief that states could secede?
What three policies made up Henry Clay’s American System?
What are Protective tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements?
What principle allowed settlers in a territory to vote on whether slavery would be permitted?
What is popular sovereignty?
Name two advantages the North had over the South at the beginning of the Civil War.
Any two: larger population, more factories/industry, more railroad mileage, greater resources
What were Northerners who moved South during or after the Civil War called?
What are Carpetbaggers?
A source from 1858 argues that “Cotton is King.” What does this reveal about the antebellum South?
What is the Southern economy depended heavily on cotton, plantation agriculture, and enslaved labor?
Why did Northern and Southern states disagree over protective tariffs?
Northern industry benefited from protection against foreign competition, while the agricultural South relied more heavily on imported manufactured goods and opposed higher prices.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers to determine slavery through popular sovereignty. What violent conflict resulted from this decision?
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Sherman destroyed railroads, crops, supplies, and infrastructure during his March to the Sea. What was the larger purpose of this strategy?
What is to destroy the Confederacy’s ability and willingness to continue fighting?
How did the disputed election of 1876 contribute to the end of Reconstruction?
What is the Compromise of 1877 helped settle the election in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes, and federal troops were withdrawn from the South, contributing to the end of Reconstruction?
Put these events in chronological order: Dred Scott decision, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Civil War begins, Compromise of 1877.
What is Missouri Compromise → Kansas-Nebraska Act → Dred Scott decision → Civil War begins → Compromise of 1877?