Units 4-5 Quizizz

What did the Transcontinental Railroad connect?

• Railroad connecting East Coast to West Coast.

• Advocate for Southern interests in slavery debates.

• Abolitionist who published The Liberator for emancipation.

• Conflict (1846-1848) over U.S. territorial expansion.

Income Tax

• Withdrawal of Southern states from the Union.

• Violent clashes over slavery in Kansas territory.

• 1857 ruling denying citizenship to African Americans.

• First tax introduced to finance the Civil War.

Abolished slavery in the United States.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Jim Crow Laws

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

Nativism

• Radical abolitionist advocating violence against slavery.

• Key figure in debates over slavery and Union preservation.

• Backlash against immigrants, promoting native-born interests.

• Belief in U.S. destined territorial expansion.

Preachers like Charles Grandison Finney who emphasized the individual's power to seek salvation and reject sin.

• African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)

• Revivalist preachers

• Second Great Awakening

• American Temperance Society

Who were the leaders of the Transcendentalism movement?

• Rutherford B Hayes and William Henry Harrison

• Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

• Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

• Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis

Who led the Democrats, championed the 'common man' and opposed centralized power?

• John Wilkes Booth

• Andrew Jackson

• John Adams

• Harriet Tubman

What was the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg?

• Lincoln's speech redefining war as a fight for equality.

• Early Confederate victory boosting Southern morale.

• Key Union victory halting Lee's Northern Invasion.

• Party faction supporting slavery's expansion.

Which political party advocated against slavery's territorial expansion?

• Federalist Party

• Democratic Party

• Whig Party

• Free Soil Party

54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

• Opponents of slavery's expansion into new territories.

• One of the first African American units in Union Army.

• Violent clashes over slavery in Kansas territory.

• Site of first military engagement in April 1861.