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Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase lands from this European nation.
What is France?
100
This was the idea that Americans would eventually conquer the West and spread democracy (and Christianity) from coast to coast, sea to shining sea…
What is Manifest Destiny?
100

After the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Southern states began the Civil War by taking this decisive action.

What is secession?

100

This President clashed with Congress over the process of Reconstruction and came one vote short of being removed from office.

Who is Andrew Johnson?

200

As he left office, President George Washington encouraged the nation to continue to follow this general policy regarding involvement in foreign affairs. 

What is neutrality? (Washington's Farewell Address)

200

British impressment of American sailors was one of the main causes of this war.

What is the War of 1812?

200
This battle is considered a turning point in the Civil War because it was the last attempt by the Confederacy to invade the North.
What is Gettysburg?
200

One of the lasting effects of Reconstruction, these laws solidified racial segregation in many areas of American life for decades to come. 

What are Jim Crow laws?

300
Andrew Jackson rose to fame after winning this battle against the British in the War of 1812 (after the war was already over).
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
300

After 10 years of being independent from Mexican control, Texas became US territory using this method of acquiring (gaining) territory.

What is annexation?

300
This Supreme Court ruled that slaves that moved to a free territory were still slaves.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
300

Identify each of the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution (100 points each)

What are the 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery), 14th (defining citizenship and equal protection under the law) and the 15th (voting rights regardless of race).

400

This act was one of many examples of the attempt to "Americanize" Native Americans by dividing up reservation land into individual plots.

What is the Dawes Act?

400

This agreement ended the Mexican American War, with the United States gaining territory in most of the Southwest in exchange for $10 million.

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo?

400
This was the term used for the idea that new states and territories would decide by voting whether to be slave or free.
What is popular sovereignty?
400

A failed attempt at land reform and economic independence for African American during Reconstruction, this was essentially "slavery without the chains."

What is sharecropping?

500

Encouraging westward expansion, the federal government passed this act that gave land to any American family willing to live and work on it for at least 5 years.

What is the Homestead Act?

500

This Supreme Court case pitting a southern state against a Native American tribe could have prevented part of the Trail of Tears if it had not been ignored by Jackson.

What is Worcester v. Georgia?

500

The first (earlier) attempt to balance the political power of slave and free states, this compromise established a 36'30 line to determine slave and free territories.

What is the Missouri Compromise? 

*BONUS: the later agreement with the same purpose that updated the balance? The Compromise of 1850.

500

In exchange for removing federal troops from the South, the Republicans "won" the election of 1876 and essentially ended Reconstruction efforts in a deal known as this.

What is the Compromise of 1877?