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 battle was the turning point of the war in favor of the Union. (Not the one with the river)
Battle of Gettysburg
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 path 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 document freed enslaved people in Confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
This organization pushed to help free blacks with bank loans, free education, food, homes, etc
Freedmen's Bureau
What was Lincoln's number one priority during the Civil War from the start?
Preserving the Union
The Mexican American War was started by the United States, what was the 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
What is the name of the famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln that spoke to the country after a big battle?
Gettysburg address
This amendment abolished slavery.
13th Amendment
Which man had lenient policies towards the South during Reconstruction, leading to clashes with the Republican Congress?
Andrew Johnson
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 what two things?
Cotton Gin & Interchangeable parts
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 gave African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
The argument over whether a state could declare a federal law invalid, and that showed a major disagreement between Andrew Jackson and South Carolina was called
The Nullification Crisis
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
This war tactic was used to "strangle" the south to submission
Anaconda Plan
What system kept freedmen in a cycle of debt, despite being legally free?
Sharecropping
John Quincy Adams became president over Andrew Jackson thanks to the Corrupt Bargain. Which man gave his states votes to Adams in order to become Secretary of State?
Henry Clay