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- The __________________ would have essentially extended the Missouri Compromise.
- The ____________ was a treaty that settled all border issues between the United States and Spain.
- The ________________ was a treaty between the United States and Canada that allowed people from both countries to live in the Pacific Northwest.
- The first major land battle of the Civil War was __________.
- The election of 1856 revealed that national politics in the United States had become almost completely divided along ______________ lines.
- The ____________________ Party's platform concerning slavery in the election of 1860 was that they wanted to limit slavery from entering the territories.
- As the Civil War raged on, Southern planters not only lost control of their slaves; they also lost the support of _________________ who believed they were paying the price to support the power of the planter aristocracy.
- The________ was a treaty that limited naval power on the Great Lakes for the United States and British Canada.
- The most important measure passed by Congress over the veto of President Johnson was the ______________________.
- Millard Fillmore called the measures of the _____________ the final settlement of the slavery debate.
- Although the battle between the ironclads CSS Virginia and USS Monitor (Merrimack and the Monitor) was inconclusive, it was important because it ______________________.
- Which party formed in 1860 to try to bridge the gap between the two radicalized views on slavery?
- Slave States that did not leave the Union during the Civil War were called ____________.
- Approximately how many American soldiers died in the Civil War?
- Which 1862 battle nearly annihilated the union army in the West, although the Confederate high command's hesitation allowed the union army to regroup?
- Which state seceded from Virginia to remain loyal to the Union after Virginia decided to join the Confederacy?
- In Lincoln's speech at the dedication of the military cemetery at Gettysburg, he stated that the outcome of the Civil War would be a "new birth of _______________________."
- The _________________ ___________________________ of 1820 allowed Americans to avoid a discussion of slavery in national politics.
- President Grant supported the use of __________________ to pay off the nation's war debt, which meant that the debt would be paid in gold rather than greenbacks.
- The first and most extreme scandal of Grant's administration involved James Fisk and Joy Gould's attempt to corner the _______________ market.