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HUSH UNIT II
Manifest Destiny--Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did Native Americans on the Great Plains fear the increasing flow of American settlers? | Settlers were encroaching on their hunting grounds, disrupting the wandering buffalo herds. |
| most popular east-west passage | Oregon Trail |
| abandoned Spanish Catholic mission where over 180 rebels holed up in San Antonio | the Alamo |
| peace agreement signed by the US and Mexico on February 2, 1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| the nation was meant to spread all the way to the Pacific | Manifest Destiny |
| This state was was annexed by the United States after a revolution. | Texas |
| overturned the Missouri Compromise | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| What happened when Fort Sumter's commander did not surrender by the stated deadline? | Confederate forces fired and the Civil War began. |
| Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional part of the Missouri Compromise in this case | Dred Scott v. Standford |
| What did Abraham Lincoln say about slavery in his first inaugural speech? | He would not interfere with slavery where it already existed. |
| What happened to African American soldiers captured by the Confederacy? | They were re-enslaved or executed. |
| group of government officials and distillers who filed false tax reports and cheated the government during U.S. Grant's presidency | the Whiskey Ring |
| What did Southerners have to do to receive a pardon from Lincoln after the Civil War? | accept the Union's proclamations concerning slavery |
| term referring to the South building a strong industrial economy | "New South" |
| Party that wanted to preserve the territories in the West for white farmers | Free-Soil Party |
| How did Lincoln try to prevent Maryland from seceding from the Union? | declared martial law in Baltimore |
| document that asserted that people in the territories could keep slavery out of their state by refusing to pass laws to regulate and enforce slavery | Freeport Doctrine |
| What was Abraham Lincoln doing when he was assassinated? | watching a play at Ford's Theater |
| turning point of the Civil War | Battle of Gettysburg |
| How did some Southern Democrats take control of most Southern state governments by 1876? | by appealing to white racism |
| they pay rent in crops | sharecroppers |
| issue that divided the nation during westward expansion and contributed to the Civil War | whether to allow slavery to expand into the western territories |
| came to California seeking gold in 1849 | "Forty-Niners" |
| book that aroused antislavery sentiment in the North | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| head conductor on the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| Robert E. Lee's job prior to leading Confederate troops | US Army officer |
| primary purpose of the Civil War to most Republicans BEFORE the Emancipation Proclamation | to save the Union |
| offered by Lincoln to all Southerners who took a loyalty oath to the United States | amnesty |
| intended to create a rout for the transcontinental railroad from New Orleans | Gadsden Purchase |
| status of each state, according to the Confederate Constitution | independent |
| territory where a civil war took place between pro-slavery and antislavery settlers | Kansas |
| Amendment to the Constitution that banned slavery | Thirteenth |
| Amendment that gave African American males the right to vote | Fifteenth |
| profession that helped break down belief that women were weaker than men | nursing |
| value of Confederate money at the end of the Civil War | zilch, nada, zero, absolutely no value at all |
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