Manifest Destiny
Millions of People moved to California for this.
What is the Gold Rush?
The Civil War was fought between these two groups.
Who are the Union and Confederacy?
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This was the process of reentering Southern states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
This compromise bought time for the Union against slavery by admitting California as a free state and banning the slave trade in the district of columbia.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
This was a popular battle in San Antonio.
What is the Alamo?
This plan was used by the Union in which it used the US Navy to blockade southern ports, cutting off supplies from the confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act used them to answer the slavery question in Kansas and Nebraska.
Who are the people?
These restricted African Americans rights to rent or or loan money to buy land, testify in White courts, and essentially coerced them to work in White owned cotton fields for meager wages.
What are Black Codes?
This law allowed slave owners to track down runaway slaves who escaped to northern states and return them to their property.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This was a popular trail used by many many people during Manifest Destiny.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This Act promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offering parcels of 160 acres of public land free to any person or family that farmed that land for at least five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The senator who was caned in the halls of Congress after their speech, “The Crime Against Kansas.”
Who is Sumner Brooks?
This was the day the last slaves heard they were freed.
What is June 19th/Juneteenth?
This political party advocated free homesteads and internal improvements such as roads and harbors.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
This was the region between the Mississippi valley and Pacific coast.
What is the Great American Desert?
This is where the bloodiest single day of combat in the entire war took place, with more than 22,000 soldiers killed or wounded.
What is Antietam?
The 4 U.S. Slave holding states that didn’t join the Confederacy when they seceded from the Union.
What are Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland?
This amendment clearly abolished slavery across the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Many nativists feared this group of immigrants due to their hard work for a cheap price.
Who are the Irish?
This Tennessee president strongly favored the Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?
During his Presidency Lincoln issued this, which stated: “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, shall recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.”
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The 1st president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This group of Southern conservatives advocated for states’ rights, reduced taxes and spending on social programs, and White supremacy.
What are the redeemers?
Members of the Free-Soil Party were nicknamed this because their defection threatened to destroy the Democratic Party.
What are barnburners?