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What were the causes and effects of Manifest Destiny?
Causes: Economic opportunities, safety concerns, overseas ambitions. Effects: Westward migration, conflicts with Native Americans and Mexico.
What were the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War?
Causes: US expansionist desires, annexation of Texas. Effects: US acquisition of vast new territories, increased sectional tensions over slavery.
What were the causes and effects of the Compromise of 1850?
Causes: Disputes over slavery in new territories. Effects: Temporary easing of tensions, but ultimately failed to resolve the underlying issues.
What were the causes and effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Causes: Desire to organize territories for westward expansion, the principle of popular sovereignty. Effects: Violence in Kansas ('Bleeding Kansas'), increased sectionalism.
What were the causes and effects of the Dred Scott decision?
Causes: Dred Scott's lawsuit for freedom. Effects: Increased tensions over slavery, strengthened the Southern position on slavery.
What were the causes and effects of the Election of 1860?
Causes: Deep divisions over slavery, Lincoln's anti-slavery stance. Effects: Secession of Southern states, start of the Civil War.
What were the causes and effects of the California Gold Rush?
Causes: Discovery of gold in California. Effects: Rapid population growth, economic development, increased demand for statehood and infrastructure.
What were the causes and effects of increased immigration?
Causes: Economic opportunities, political instability in Europe. Effects: Nativism, cultural changes, labor force growth.
What were the causes and effects of the Gadsden Purchase?
Causes: Desire for a southern transcontinental railroad route. Effects: Further expansion of US territory, resolution of border issues with Mexico.
What were the causes and effects of the Purchase of Alaska?
Causes: Desire to expand US territory and influence, weakening of Russia's hold on North America. Effects: Expansion of US territory, access to natural resources.
What was the California Gold Rush?
A period in 1849 when massive numbers of people migrated to California in search of gold, leading to rapid population growth and development.
What was the Mexican-American War?
A war fought from 1846-1848, resulting in the US acquiring vast new territories from Mexico.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
A series of laws passed in 1850 that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories, but ultimately failed.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A law passed in 1854 that allowed residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty, leading to violence.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
A Supreme Court ruling in 1857 that slaves were not citizens and had no right to sue, increasing tensions over slavery.
What happened in the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln's victory led to Southern states seceding and the start of the Civil War.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
The U.S. acquisition of land from Mexico in 1853 that included parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico.
Describe the Purchase of Alaska.
The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, expanding US territory to the far Northwest.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
A series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians", mostly in the Kansas Territory.
What was the impact of the California Gold Rush?
Sparked rapid population growth and development in the West.
Who was Dred Scott?
An enslaved African American man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The 16th President of the United States whose election led to the secession of Southern states.