What three political events preceded the secession of the Southern states?
What term described the belief that America was destined to expand across the continent?
In what year did the American Civil War begin?
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War?
What was the Louisiana Purchase (1803)?
What was Manifest Destiny?
What was the Trail of Tears?
What was the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
What did the Lewis and Clark expedition accomplish?
What did the Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) do?
What was the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
Why was the Oregon Trail important?
Why was the annexation of Texas (1845) controversial?
What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) do?
How did the California Gold Rush affect westward expansion?
What did the Compromise of 1850 try to settle?
Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) heighten sectional conflict?