Westward Expansion
This idea justified U.S. expansion across the continent as a God-given right.
Manifest Destiny
This reform movement aimed to give women equal rights
Suffrage
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
This organization used violence and intimidation against African Americans, Republicans, and other ethnic minorities/immigrants
Ku Klux Klan
This president purchased the Lousiana territory which doubled the countries territory
Thomas Jefferson
This trail was used by thousands of Native Americans after the Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
This movement was founded by women and it encouraged people to stop drinking alcohol
Temperance Movement
This battle was the turning point of the war in favor of the Union (after this battle the South would have no chance of ever wining)
Battle of Gettysburg
This organization pushed to help free blacks with bank loans, free education, food, homes, etc
Freedmen's Bureau
Lincoln’s leadership during the Civil War demonstrated his priority of—
Preserving the Union
The Mexican American War was started by the United States, what was the year and name of the treaty that fully ended the war and gave the country additional land?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
This reformer escaped slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker
Frederick Douglass
Name the President and leading General of the North:
Name the President and leading General of the South:
Abraham Lincoln & Ulysses S Grant
Jefferson Davis & Robert E Lee
This amendment abolished slavery.
13th Amendment
Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction policies led to conflict with Congress because he—
Was too lenient/forgiving toward the South
This agreement with Great Britain set the U.S.-Canada border at the 49th parallel
Oregon Treaty
Eli Witney is credited with the inventions of?
Cotton Gin & Interchangeable parts
This war tactic was used to "strangle" the south to submission
Anaconda Plan
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
The election of 1824 led to accusations of a “corrupt bargain” because—
John Quincy Adams became president after the House of Representatives (Led by speaker of the house Henry Clay)voted and then he appointed Henry Clay as Secretary of State.
This act gave settlers 160 acres of land if they improved it for 5 years
Homestead Act
This movement is largely responsible for giving people Ideas on bettering their lives
Second Great Awakening
What is the name of the famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln that spoke to the country and who were the key people it mentioned?
Gettysburg address & and it mentioned free/enslaved blacks
How did sharecropping limit economic opportunity for freedmen?
Kept them in cycles of debt and poverty despite being legally free
The Nullification Crisis showed a major disagreement between Andrew Jackson and South Carolina over—
Whether a state could declare a federal law (tariff) invalid?