Unit 4 Civil War

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

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Manifest Destiny

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

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Westward expansion

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The Missouri Compromise...

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

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act caused which of these events, a violent conflict between abolitionists and slavery supporters over slavery? Options: Bleeding Kansas, Missouri Compromise, Louisiana Purchase, Emancipation Proclamation.

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Bleeding Kansas

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

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Dred Scott vs. Sandford

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

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Emancipation Proclamation

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

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Secession

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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.

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Radical Republicans in Congress

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

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Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

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These Reconstruction Amendments banned slavery, and granted citizenship and guaranteed voting rights to African-Americans. Options: 13th, 14th, 15th; 1st, 2nd, 3rd; 4th, 5th, 9th; 20th, 21st, 22nd

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13th, 14th, 15th