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| 6679048262 | John O'Sullivan | coined the term Manifest Destiny; suggested that God had ordained the United States to expand westward | 0 | |
| 6679048263 | Manifest Destiny | used to gain support for the territorial expansion in the Southwest and Mexico | 1 | |
| 6679048264 | Andrew Jackson | opposed the admission of Texas into the Union though he favored territorial expansion | 2 | |
| 6679048265 | Texas | divided over the issue of admitting another slave state into the Union | 3 | |
| 6679048266 | James Polk | election of 1844; "fifty-four forty or fight" - promise to take all of the Oregon land under dispute between the US and Britain | 4 | |
| 6679048267 | Mexican-American War | Polk believed that Mexican troops had illegally crossed into American territory and thus forced American bloodshed | 5 | |
| 6679048268 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) | ended the Mexican-American War; United States gained California and New Mexico and settled boundary dispute of Texas | 6 | |
| 6679048269 | the Wilmot Proviso | called for prohibition of slavery in lands from Mexico; endorsed by legislatures and symbolized the issue of slavery expansion | 7 | |
| 6679048270 | American Colonization Society (1817) | worked to return freed slaves to the west coast of Africa; led by middle-class evangelicals | 8 | |
| 6679048271 | William Lloyd Garrison | editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper; founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society; wanted the immediate emancipation of slaves | 9 | |
| 6679048272 | Frederick Douglass | prominent abolitionist; had his own publication, North Star; championed equal rights for women | 10 | |
| 6679048273 | Sarah Moore Grimke | first woman to support abolition and equal rights | 11 | |
| 6679048274 | the Compromise of 1850 | California as a free state; abolition of slavery in DC; passage of more strict Fugitive Slave Act; territorial governments in New Mexico and Utah, immediate decision of slavery | 12 | |
| 6679048275 | popular sovereignty | attempted to settle the question of whether it was legal to establish slavery in the Western territories; determined by those who lived there | 13 | |
| 6679048276 | the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) | territory of Nebraska would be split into two territories; determination of slavery by inhabitants; repealed the Missouri Compromise; ignited a bloody contest and split the Democratic party | 14 | |
| 6679048277 | the Dred Scott Case (1857) | was a slave and could not sue in federal court because slaves were property and could not be taken from their masters | 15 | |
| 6679048278 | John Brown's Raid | Brown and followers seized a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry; wanted to spur a slave revolt; he was executed and became a symbol of the abolitionist movement | 16 | |
| 6679048279 | the Election of 1860 | led by Lincoln who opposed the expansion of slavery; Democratic party was split; Lincoln won which influenced seven Southern states to succeed | 17 | |
| 6679048280 | advantages of the North | railroad network; strong industrial base; superior navy; large population and food supply; and established, functioning government | 18 | |
| 6679048281 | disadvantages of the North | shortage of experienced military commanders and a divided population | 19 | |
| 6679048282 | advantages of the South | defensive war fought on home territory; coastline difficult to blockade; important cash crop (cotton); experienced military commanders; close economic relationship with Britain; and unified war aim | 20 | |
| 6679048283 | disadvantages of the South | smaller population than the North; smaller industrial base than the North; and lack of diversified economy | 21 | |
| 6679048284 | importance of the border states | strategic location; important industrial and agricultural resources | 22 | |
| 6679048285 | border states | Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware | 23 | |
| 6679048286 | the Battle of the Antietam | Union victory persuaded England and France to remain neutral; allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation | 24 | |
| 6679048287 | the Emancipation Proclamation | did not want to antagonize slave owners in the border states; strengthened the Union's moral cause of ending slavery; did not free those in the border states, only those in the Confederacy | 25 | |
| 6679048288 | the Transcontinental railroad | built by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad | 26 | |
| 6679048289 | Homestead Act of 1862 | offering cheap land to people who would settle the West and improve their property | 27 | |
| 6679048290 | 13th Amendment | abolished slavery and involuntary servitude | 28 | |
| 6679048291 | 14th Amendment | declared former slaves as citizens and provided "equal protection of the laws" | 29 | |
| 6679048292 | 15th Amendment | provided suffrage for black males; supported by Frederick Douglass and opposed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 30 | |
| 6679048293 | causes of the Radical Reconstruction | former Confederates were elected to Congress; Black Codes enacted; race riots broke out; and attempts in the South to undermine the 14th amendment | 31 | |
| 6679048294 | programs and policies of the Radical Reconstruction | military occupation of the South; Confederate leaders became policy; restrictions were placed on Andrew Johnson and impeached him | 32 | |
| 6679048295 | achievements of the Radical Revolution | Freedmen's Bureau and African Americans were elected to the House and Senate | 33 | |
| 6679048296 | freedman | entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters which led to a cycle of debt and depression; did not receive land | 34 | |
| 6679048297 | the Panic of 1873 | depression | 35 | |
| 6679048298 | Black Codes | passed by Southern state legislatures and wanted to limit the opportunities to the blacks | 36 | |
| 6679048299 | election of 1876 | Tilden v. Hayes | 37 | |
| 6679048300 | the Compromise of 1877 | Democrats agreed that Hayes would win; ended Reconstruction | 38 |
