Westward Expansion Basics
This president sent Lewis and Clark to explore new land.
Who is Thomas Jefferson? (TJ)
Texas was originally part of this country.
What is Mexico?
The North and South disagreed strongly over this issue.
What is slavery?
“Bleeding Kansas” refers to violence over this issue.
What is Slavery or voting about slavery
Who was the president during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Lewis and Clark expedition explored land gained in this purchase.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
True or False: Texas was independent before joining the United States.
True
The North was more industrial, while the South relied on this type of economy.
What is agriculture/plantations?
This idea let settlers in Kansas vote on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Southern states that left the Union were called this.
What is the Confederacy?
Moving west in the 1800s was often called this belief that Americans were meant to expand.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What was the biggest argument being had when they were trying to make new states?
What is the debate of slavery.
This act required citizens to help return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
John Brown believed slavery should end using this method.
What is violence/force through revolution?
This event officially started the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This name was coined to the forced movement of Native Americans to the west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The U.S. annexed Texas in this decade.
What is the 1840s?
This 36°30′ line divided free and slave territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
John Brown attacked this place to start a slave uprising.
What is Harpers Ferry?
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in this year.
What is 1860?
The name of the party that took an alternate route during westward expansion, only to end up starving and dying due to the harsh nature of the terrain?
Who is the Donner party?
Why did annexing Texas increase tensions in the U.S.?
It raised the issue of slavery / balance of free vs slave states.
What does “sectionalism” mean?
Loyalty to one region over the whole country.
Why was “Bleeding Kansas” known as the Civil War before the Civil War?
It showed that disagreements over slavery were becoming violent.
Why did Southern states secede after Lincoln’s election?
They feared he would limit or end slavery.