Question | Answer |
What does Manifest Destiny mean for America? | America believed it was their right to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean |
Why do Americans feel the right to pursue "Manifest Destiny"? | They improved the land when moving west. They had already acquired the Louisiana Purchase. |
What caused the Mexican American war? | Belief of Manifest Destiny, TX was annexed by the U.S., border dispute over Texas, American troops provoked Mexican troops in disputed area. |
How was Texas involved in the Mexican American war? | Mexico still thought TX was Mexican territory, and they argued over its border. |
How does this war affect the Civil War later? | It serves as a training ground for future Civil War generals such as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. |
What ended the Mexican American war? | The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo |
What were some of the results of the war? | TX became a part of the U.S., Mexico ceded the land between TX and the Pacific Ocean to the U.S. (Mexican Cession), America paid Mexico $15 million |
define cede | legally giving up territory to another country |
What advantages in the Civil War did the North have? | railroads, telegraph, manufacturing, population, wealth |
what advantage did the South have in the Civil War? | large farms |
what were the causes of the civil war? | Sectionalism, slavery, the election of 1860,secession, states rights |
What political party was Abraham Lincoln? | Republican |
At the Secession Convention, what did Texas decide to do? | Texas lawmakers voted to secede (166 to 8) because they believed that they had the right to own slaves. |
Who was the primary commander of the Confederate Army? | Robert E. Lee |
Who was the president of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis |
Who was the primary commander of the Union? | Ulysses S. Grant |
What battle marked the "bloodless opening" of the civil war? | Fort Sumpter |
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation? | It freed slaves ONLY in rebelling states. |
What victory did Lincoln use to give it? | Battle of Antietam |
What turning point was also the biggest and longest battle of the Civil War? | Battle of Gettysburg |
What was the Gettysburg Address? | Speech by Lincoln to dedicate a national cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield |
What important event happened at the Appomattox Courthouse? | Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, leading to the end of the Civil War. |
Where was Abraham Lincoln born? | Hodgenville, Kentucky |
When was Abraham Lincoln born? | February 12, 1809 |
When did Abraham Lincoln die? | April 15, 1865 |
Who killed Abraham Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
Where did Abraham Lincoln get shot? | Ford's theater |
Where did Abraham Lincoln die? | Petersen House |