Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
This president is associated with the idea of "sea to shining sea" expansion.
Who is James K. Polk?
The U.S. gained large amounts of new territory as a result of winning this war.
The Mexican-American War
This battle in July 1863 marked the last major offensive by the Confederate Army.
The Battle of Gettysburg
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
These Southern laws attacked Black rights and severely restricted the freedom of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
Black Codes
Manifest Destiny was the belief that Americans had this — a God-given right to do what?
Expand to the west coast
Winning the Mexican-American War immediately raised this major question about the new territories.
Whether slavery would expand into the new land
This Union general was appointed commander in 1864 and used an aggressive strategy to crush the Confederacy.
Ulysses S. Grant
This amendment granted birthright citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
The 14th Amendment
This terrorist organization used violence to attack Black political participation and rights during Reconstruction.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
According to Manifest Destiny, what was supposed to replace "Native rule" in the West?
Democracy and "advanced civilization"
This 1850 agreement tried to temporarily pause the national conflict over slavery.
The Compromise of 1850
Lincoln was assassinated days after the Confederate surrender — and this amendment was ratified just 5 months later.
The 13th Amendment
This amendment ended race-based restrictions on voting.
The 15th Amendment
The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction by doing this.
Withdrawing federal troops from the South
The Second Great Awakening fueled two major national movements — abolitionism and this.
Westward expansion
When the Compromise of 1850 failed, it led directly to this 1854 law and the violent conflict known as "Bleeding Kansas."
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 caused this state to be the first to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
This federal agency provided education and aid to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
The Freedmen's Bureau
Black Codes and KKK violence both had this same goal — to do what to Black Americans?
Stop/suppress Black rights and political participation
In the 1840s, regional divides between the North, South, and West centered on disagreements over these three things.
Federal policy, taxes, and land use
The Free-Soil Party and the Republican Party were examples of these — parties that broke up the old two-party system by focusing on one region's interests.
Sectional political parties
After Lincoln's election, a total of this many Southern states left the Union to form the Confederacy.
11 States
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are collectively called this.
The Reconstruction Amendments
This labor system, which replaced slavery in the South, kept Black families trapped in debt by requiring them to give landowners a share of their crops.
Sharecropping