Westward Ho!
This presidential act doubled the size of the United States
The Louisiana Purchase
Supreme Court case of 1857 in which an enslaved couple sued - unsuccessfully - for their freedom
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this South Carolina location
Fort Sumter
First president to be impeached in 1868
Andrew Johnson
Journalist James O'Sullivan coined this term in 1845 for the United States' ambition to reach from sea to shining sea
Manifest Destiny
This territory was purchased from Spain in 1819
Florida
Stephen Douglas championed this position on the slavery question which would allow each state to decide its legality. Abraham Lincoln opposed it.
Popular sovereignty
Name for the Union strategy in 1861 to strangle the Confederacy by land and sea
The Anaconda Strategy
Political wing in Congress who were most in conflict with President Johnson's post-war plans
Radical Republicans
This political party was founded in 1854 to prevent the spread of slavery beyond the South
The Republican Party
He was president during the Mexican-American War
Polk
Harriet Beecher Stowe's electrifying 1852 bestseller which depicted the cruelty of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
President Lincoln issued this executive action after the Union victory at the battle of Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation
Violent racist organization which was founded and flourished after the Civil War
Ku Klux Klan
Presidential candidate who founded the populist Democratic Party after suffering defeat in the election of 1824
Andrew Jackson
The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 was prompted by this flourishing American industry
Railroads
Northern abolitionist who murdered slave owners in Kansas in the 1850's and attempted to incite a slave rebellion before his execution in 1859
John Brown
Confederate general famed for his strategic prowess throughout the war; became a college professor after surrendering at Appomattox Court House
Robert E. Lee
This event marked the official end of Reconstruction efforts by the Federal government
Compromise of 1877
Union general responsible for the March to the Sea in1864 which made the South "howl"
William T. Sherman
After the conclusion of the Mexican-American war, this river became the southern border of the United States
The Rio Grande
Vigorous enforcement of a strong Fugitive Slave Law was a part of this Congressional act
The Compromise of 1850
The Union victory at this location in July, 1863 blocked Confederate access to the Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Born a slave, he went on to champion technical education for blacks and founded Tuskegee University
Booker T. Washington
Government agency established after the Civil War to help poor Southerners - white and black - rebuild
The Freedmen's Bureau