Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
This phrase described the belief that the United States was destined to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
The dividing line established by the Missouri Compromise was the ____ parallel.
36°30′?
This event in 1861 marked the start of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
The Union strategy to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River was called this.
The Anaconda Plan
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
This 1848 discovery helped spark rapid westward migration to California.
Gold
This abolitionist newspaper was published by William Lloyd Garrison.
The Liberator
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859
John Brown
This battle was the bloodiest single day in American history.
Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in these areas.
Confederate States
This federal law offered free land to settlers willing to farm it for five years.
Homestead Act
This 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories.
The Kansas Nebraska Act
This election result directly led to Southern secession.
Election 1860
This battle is often considered the turning point of the Civil War. Lincoln later visited this site to give on the most famous speeches of all time.
Gettysburg
Against the advice of Supreme Court Justice Robert Taney, Lincoln suspended this constitutional right during the war.
Habeas Corpus
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not U.S. citizens, but property and Congress could not ban slavery in the territories
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This violent conflict in the Kansas Territory was caused by disagreements over slavery.
Bleeding Kansas
This political compromise temporarily eased sectional tensions by admitting California as a free state.
Compromise 1850
This Confederate capital fell to Union forces in 1865, signaling the collapse of the Confederacy.
Richmond, VA
This constitutional amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the United States.
13th Amendment
This 1848 treaty officially ended the Mexican–American War and gave the U.S. large amounts of southwestern territory.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This political idea opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories but did NOT call for immediate abolition where slavery already existed.
Free Soil
This man was the architect of the 1850 Compromise as well as the Missouri Compromise.
Henry Clay
This Confederate president appointed Robert E. Lee as the general of the Confederate Army.
Jefferson Davis
This Union general was promoted by Lincoln for his willingness to wage aggressive war against the Confederacy.
Ulysses S. Grant