Manifest Destiny & Expansion
This journalist coined the term that framed westward expansion as inevitable and divinely sanctioned.
Who is John L. O’Sullivan?
This general commanded U.S. troops attacked by Mexican cavalry in April 1846.
Zachary Taylor
This 1850 law required ordinary citizens to help capture runaway enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
This Union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and split the Confederacy via the Mississippi River.
the Anaconda Plan
Lincoln’s plan required this percentage of voters to swear loyalty before readmission.
10 Percent Plan
This ideology argued that U.S. expansion was not conquest, but the spread of republican freedom and self-rule.
Manifest Destiny
President Polk claimed Mexico had “___________” on this contested land.
Shed American Blood
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped shift Northern public opinion against slavery.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This battle was the bloodiest single day in American history and led to the Emancipation Proclamation.
the Battle of Antietam
This Radical Republican proposal denied former Confederates political power.
Wade Davis Bill
Name the two rivers in dispute between Texas and Mexico, which led to the Mexican American War
the Nueces River and the Rio Grande
This amphibious assault led by Winfield Scott opened the road to Mexico City.
the bombardment of Veracruz
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and introduced popular sovereignty.
This technological innovation made traditional bayonet charges devastatingly ineffective.
Mine Ball
This amendment granted birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
This U.S. diplomat was sent to Mexico with authority to offer $30 million for disputed territory.
Who is John Slidell
This 1848 treaty ended the war and transferred over 500,000 square miles to the United States
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This violent period saw rival governments, border ruffians, and John Brown’s massacre.
Bleeding Kansas
This March demonstrated total war by targeting Southern infrastructure and morale
Sherman's March to the Sea
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into _______ military districts
5
This belief justified expansion while ignoring its consequences for Native peoples, Mexico, and enslaved Africans.
Racial Superiority
Name three future Civil War leaders whose careers advanced during this war
Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis
This Supreme Court ruling declared African Americans non-citizens and voided congressional limits on slavery.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This prison symbolized the deadly conditions faced by POWs in the Confederacy.
Andersonville
This federal agency provided food, education, and medical care to formerly enslaved people.
Freedman's Bureau