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What is Manifest Destiny
The philosophy that Americans have a god-given right to expand and settle west
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What is the Missouri Compromise
The original compromise that said states south of 36 30 would be slave states
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What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This freed all slaves in southern states
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What is Fort Sumter
The first shots fired in the Civil War; took place in SC
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What is the 14th Amendment
This Amendment gave black Americans citizenship
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What is California
This state became populated quickly because of the gold rushes
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What is the Compromise of 1850
The later compromise that brought CA in as free and created the Fugitive Slave Act
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What is Lincoln's Election
This was the immediate cause (or last straw) that caused South Carolina to secede
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What is Antietam
Single bloodiest battle; gave Lincoln the win needed to publish the Emancipation Proclamation
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What are the Black Codes
These laws restricted black American’s rights
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What is Texas
This state originally declared independence from Mexico, then later asked for entry into the Union
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What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The act that let states north of 36 30 have popular sovereignty
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What is the Anaconda Plan
This was the name of the main strategy the North executed
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What is Gettysburg
Bloodiest 3-day battle; farthest North the South got
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What is ratify the 14th and guarantee the right to vote (for all males)
These were the 2 requirements for readmission to the Union
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What is the Mexican American War
This war was arguably provoked by the US sending soldiers into a disputed boundary area
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What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
The court case that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
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Who is Jefferson Davis
This was the President of the Confederacy
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What is the First Battle of Bull Run
First real battle of the war; made the North realize this was not a one-and-done
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What are Carpetbaggers
This group of people were seen as taking economic advantage of the war-torn south
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What is the Adams-Onis Treaty
This Treaty gave the US Florida
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Who is John Brown
The man who lead several violent uprisings in both Kansas and West VA in protest of slavery
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Who are Grant and Sherman
These were the two most effective Northern Generals
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What is Vicksburg
The Northern victory that gave them control of the Mississippi river
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What is the Tenure of Office Act
Andrew Johnson was impeached because he violated this Act
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