WESTWARD EXPANSION
This belief held that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
At the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln's primary objective was to accomplish this.
What is preserve the Union?
This 1863 document declared enslaved people in states rebelling against the United States to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This federal organization was created to assist formerly enslaved people and other people in the South after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This war resulted in the United States acquiring territories including California and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican War?
This concept proposed allowing the people living in a territory to decide whether slavery would be legal.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Union victory is considered the single bloodiest day of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation immediately freed every enslaved person in the United States.
False.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
A Southern law prohibits freedpeople from renting homes, holding public meetings without permission, and carrying weapons without permission. What type of law is this, and what was its purpose?
What are the Black Codes?
The annexation of these two areas is most directly connected to the American belief in Manifest
What are Texas and Oregon?
This 1854 law used popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Union victory gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.
What is Vicksburg?
This Union victory was a major turning point and stopped Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North.
What is Gettysburg?
This Reconstruction approach was associated with Andrew Johnson and generally took a more lenient approach toward the South.
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
The Mexican War created a major political problem because Americans now had to decide whether this institution would expand into the newly acquired western territories.
What is slavery?
Name two events that contributed to increasing sectionalism before the Civil War.
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Name two major advantages the North had over the South during the Civil War.
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This Union general used a strategy that targeted not only Confederate soldiers but also Southern infrastructure and resources.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This Reconstruction approach was led by Congress and took a stricter approach toward the former Confederate states while placing greater emphasis on protecting African American rights.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
Explain the connection between the following:
- Mexican War
- New Territories
- Slavery Debate
- Sectionalism
The Mexican War added western territory, which raised the question of whether slavery would be allowed there. The disagreement over slavery's expansion increased tensions between the North and South.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
A law passed in 1854 made this concept the method for deciding whether slavery would be permitted in Kansas and Nebraska. Explain why this law increased sectional tensions.
What is popular sovereignty? It increased tensions because the question of slavery was left to settlers, leading to intense conflict and violence in Kansas.
Why were railroads particularly important to the North's wartime success?
They allowed the North to move soldiers, weapons, supplies, and other resources efficiently across its larger territory.
Explain one major consequence of Sherman's approach to warfare.
It damaged Southern infrastructure and resources, weakened the Confederate war effort, and reduced the South's ability to continue fighting.
Put these three amendments in order and identify what each accomplished:
13th → 14th → 15th