Period 5

Question 1

Popular sovereignty

Answer 1

Settlers of a given territory have the sole right to decide whether slavery will be permitted there. Led to a debate over expansion of slaver into the territories.

Question 2

Reconstruction

Answer 2

Implemented by congress, reconstruction focused on reorganizing the governments of the southern states after the civil war and allowing them to reenter the Union

Question 3

Manifest destiny

Answer 3

Nineteenth century belief that the United States had an obligation to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean