WESTWARD EXPANSION
This belief said that the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This word describes the growing differences between different regions of the United States.
What is sectionalism?
This Confederate attack marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
He was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1845 event added Texas to the United States.
What is Texas annexation?
This 1854 law allowed Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty to decide the slavery question.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This document declared enslaved people in areas controlled by the Confederacy to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This amendment established citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The United States gained this territory from Mexico after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This battle in Pennsylvania stopped Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North.
What is Gettysburg?
He was a Union general who later became president during Reconstruction.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment protected voting rights for Black men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This abolitionist attacked a federal arsenal in Virginia in an attempt to start a slave uprising.
Who is John Brown?
This Union victory gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
This Confederate general earned the nickname “Stonewall” during the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson?
This federal agency provided education, food, medical care, labor assistance, and legal help after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This idea allowed settlers in a territory to vote on whether slavery would be allowed.
What is popular sovereignty?
This 1860 election helped trigger Southern secession because Abraham Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery.
What is the Election of 1860?
This Union general's capture of Atlanta helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This Union general used destructive warfare and captured Atlanta.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This election and political agreement resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Election of 1876?