Unit 4 Civil War

Idea that God wanted the US to take more land. Justified westward expansion.

• Monroe Doctrine

• American nativism

• Manifest Destiny

• Dutch imperialism

US gaining more land to the west with purchases, wars, and treaties

• Westward expansion

• Civil War

• Boston Tea Party

• Reconstruction

The Missouri Compromise...

• allowed citizens to vote on whether their state would be a free or slave state

• divided the nation into Northern free states and Southern slave states. 

• allowed Maine to be admitted as a slave state, and Missouri as a free state. 

• settled the debate over expanding slavery into the territories until the U.S. Civil War in 1861. 

The Kansas-Nebraska Act caused which of these events, a violent conflict between abolitionists and slavery supports over slavery.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise

• Louisiana Purchase

• Emancipation Proclomation

Supreme Court case that said Congress can't ban slavery in the western territories. Made compromise impossible. Led to election of Lincoln.

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

Lincoln action during the Civil War that ended slavery in the South.

• Manifest Destiny

• Secession

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Habeus Corpus

11 southern states left the US (Union) after Lincoln's election because they feared him abolishing slavery

• Slavery

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Westward Expansion

• Secession

Who is most likely to say the following about Reconstruction: We should punish Southern states for starting this war and help freedmen as much as we can.

• James Polk

• Radical Republicans in Congress

• Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

Who is most likely to say the following about Reconstruction: We should bring the South back into the Union as soon as possible.

• Radical Republicans

• Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

• John Wilkes Booth.

These Reconstruction Amendments banned slavery, and granted citizenship and guaranteed voting rights to African-Americans

• 13th, 14th, 15th

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd

• 4th, 5th, 9th

• 20th, 21st, 22nd