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100
This is idea that the United States should expand it's territory to the Pacific ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
100
This man was a former slave and prominent abolitionist who published "The North Star."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
This term describes when the people of a territory were allowed to vote whether they wanted to permit slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
This was the first state to secede from the United States after the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln.
What is South Carolina?
100
This group's plan for reconstruction focused on protecting the rights of former slaves.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
200
This caused the population of California to grow rapidly.
What is the gold rush?
200
Slavery had been declining in the South until this invention was introduced, making slavery immensely profitable.
What is the cotton gin?
200
When it was founded, this political party brought together diverse supporters who all agreed that slavery should not be allowed to expand into the territories.
What is the Republican Party?
200
After President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, it became far less likely that this country would support the Confederacy's war effort.
What is Great Britain?
200
These white Southerners who joined the Republican Party during Reconstruction were considered by many to be traitors to their race.
What are scalawags?
300
In this year, a compromise was made that admitted California as a free state and strengthened fugitive slave laws.
What is 1850?
300
After this radical abolitionist raided a federal arsenal, some people considered him a hero, while others thought he was a dangerous mad man.
Who is John Brown?
300
Rather than reduce conflict, popular sovereignty led to this mini civil war in one of the territories.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300
President Lincoln insisted that the Civil War was being fought to preserve the Union, in part because he did not want to alienate this group of states.
What are the border states?
300
This act placed former confederate states under military control while they worked on gaining readmission to the Union.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
400

Who created the American System? This system includes a protective tariff, internal improvements, and a strong national bank.

Who is Henry Clay?

400
This religious movement helped inspire a variety of social reform movements in the first half of the 19th century.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
400
Signaling the end of the period of political compromise, this man was beaten unconscious on the Senate floor after giving an anti-slavery speech and insulting southern members of Congress.
Who is Charles Sumner?
400
Spectators from Washington, D.C., brought picnics and champagne with them to watch this battle.
What is the first Battle of Bull Run?
400
President Johnson advised the states not to ratify this amendment, which they were required to do for readmission to the Union.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
This president, an ardent believer in Manifest Destiny, started the Mexican-American War.
Who is President James K. Polk?
500
This event marks the beginning of the women's rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
500

How were Northern Women impacted by industrialism.

Worked in Lowell Mills/Factories

500
This phrase can be traced back to General Sherman's redistribution of land to slaves on the Georgia Sea Islands.
What is "40 acres and a mule"?
500

This amendment allowed Black MEN to vote.

What is the 15th Amendment?