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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Trail of Tears | Cherokees' own term for their forced removal, 1838-1839, from the Southeast to Indian Lands; of 15000 forced to march, 4000 died on the way |
| Worcester vs. Georgia | Chief Justice John Marshall laid out in this opinion the relationship between the Indian Nations and the United States is that of nations. |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | Authorized Congress to grand 160 acres of public land to a western settler, who had to live on the land for 5 years to establish title |
| Abolitionism | Against slavery morally |
| Anit-Slavery | Against slavery for the labor use primarily |
| The Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) | The Webster–Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, was a treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies. It resolved a dispute over the location of the Maine–New Brunswick border |
| Manifest Destiny | Phrase used in 1845 to urge annexation of Texas; used thereafter to encourage American settlement of European colonial and Indian lands in the Great Plains and West; a justification for the American Empire |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic,It's the peace treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War |
| Gadsden Purchase | 30,000 wquare miles in present day Arizon and New Mexico bought by Congress from Mexico primarily for the Southern Pacific Railroad's transcontinental route |
| Treaty of Oregon | The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country, which had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S. since the Treaty of 1818. |
| Popular Sovereignty | Allowed settlers in a disputed territory to decide the slavery issue for themselves; program most closely associated with Douglas |
| Wilmot Proviso | Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War, but souther senators, led by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, defeated the measure in 1846 and 1847 |
| Compromise of 1850 | Complex compromise devised by Senator Henry Clay that admitted California as a free state, included stronger fugitive slave law, and delayed determination of the slave status of the New Mexico and Utah territories |
| Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | Gave federal government authority in cases involving runaway slaves; aroused considerable opposition in the North |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Douglass allowed setttlers in newly organized territories north of the Missouri border to decide the issue of slavery for themselves; fury and violence occured over this repeal of the Missouri Compromise |
| Charles Sumner | Got caned. Was antislavery. |
| "Bleeding Kansas" | Violence between pro- and antislavery settlers in the Kansas Territory, 1856 |
| Dred Scott vs. Sanford | The U.S Supreme Court decision in which chief justice Roger B. Taney ruled that Congress couldn't prohibit slavery in the territories bc such a prohibition would violate the 5th amendment rights slaveholders that no blacks could be a citizen in the U.S. |
| Roger Taney | Roger Brooke Taney was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office or sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| Lecompton Constitution | This new constitution enshrined slavery in the proposed state and protected the rights of slaveholders. In addition, the constitution provided for a referendum that allowed voters the choice of allowing more slaves to enter the territory. |
| Topeka Constitution | This convention was the first effort to establish Kansas under a state constitution; it drafted the Topeka Constitution that was approved by Free-State voters in Kansas on December 15, 1855. This document banned slavery in Kansas. |
| Republican Party of 1854 | By antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free Soilers in response to the Kansas Nebraska Act; nominated John Fremont for president in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860 |
| The Freeport Doctorine | Instead of making a direct choice, Douglas' response stated that despite the court's ruling, slavery could be prevented from any territory by the refusal of the people living in that territory to pass laws favorable to slavery |
| John Brown | An abolitionist who became a martyr from the result of Harper's ferry. He was captured and executed |
| Harper's Ferry | Site of abolitionist John Brown's failed raid on the federal arsenal. |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Preset. Repeated. Happened in Illinois |
| The Confederacy | States who broke apart from the U.S.; Union's rival |
| Robert E. Lee | Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. |
| The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia | The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States |
| Ulysses S. Grant | General who won the war; successful general |
| Fort Sumter | First battle of the Civil War, in which the federal fort in Charleston (south carolina) Harbor was captured by Confederates on April 14, 1861, after two days of shelling |
| The Confiscation Act of 1862 | The Confiscation Act of 1862 was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate independence effort. |
| King Cotton Diplomacy | During the American Civil War, cotton diplomacy was the idea that Britain and France required cotton from the South (see King Cotton). However, the Confederate States of America significantly overestimated the leverage that cotton trade would give them. |
| Clara Barton | Humanitarian who founded the Red Cross |
| Dr. Mary Walker | Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919) was an American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is the only woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. |
| The Battle Antietam | One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought to a standoff on September 17, 1862, in western Maryland |
| Mine Bullet (aka Mini Bullet) | incresed distance and accuracy |
| Battle of Fort Wagner | The First Battle of Fort Wagner(July 11, 1863)Union loss bigtime.Second Battle of Fort Wagner is better known. This was the Union attack on July 18, 1863, led by 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first military unit consisting of black soliders to be raised in the North during the Civil War. |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation on Sept. 22 1862 freeing the slaves in areas under Confederate control as of Jan 1 1863. The date of the final proclamation which also authorized the enrollment of black soldiers into the Union army |
| Appomattox Courthous | Site of surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee to Union general Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, marking the end of the Civil War |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated Lincoln in Ford's Theatre |
| Juneteenth | Commenmorates and Celebrates the abolition of slavery, when Texas succumbed to the Emancipation Proclamation |
| 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery (1865) |
| 14th Amendment | Guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, in words similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
| !5 Amendment | Ratified in 1870, which prohibited states from discriminating in voting privileges on the basis of race |
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