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Am. His. Lesson 3
American History 1846-1896
| Definiton | Term |
|---|---|
| Proposed amendment to the military appropiations bill aimed at banning slavery via the outcome of the war with Mexico | Wilmot Proviso |
| Concept that the settlers of a new territory have the right to accept slavery or not | popular sovereignty |
| Third party that proposed to exclude slavery from federal territories | free-soil party |
| Series of 5 congressional statutes that temporarily calmed the sectional crisis | Compromise of 1850 |
| Federal law that for slave owners to recapture runaway slaves and free blacks | Fugitive Slave Law |
| The attitudes, actions, and policies that favor native populations over immigrants | Nativism |
| Repealed the Missouri Compromise, split the Louisiana purchase in two territories, and allowed popular sovereignty | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Secret memo that urged the acquisition of Cuba by any means necessary | Ostend Manifesto |
| Also known as the American Party in the mid 19th century | Know-Nothing Party |
| Political party that were opposed to the extension of slavery in the western territories | Republican Party |
| Congress narrowly denied Kansas' entry into the union under this constitution | Lecompton Constitution |
| Southern secessionists who debated two strategies: unilateral or cooperative secession | Cooperationists |
| Leading proposal that would have extended the Missouri Compromise line west to the Pacific | Crittenden Compromise |
| Union strategy that was to encircle the South as an Anaconda squeezes its prey | Anaconda Policy |
| President Lincoln proclaimed that the slaves of the Confederancy were free | Emancipation Proclamation |
| Northern Democrats suspected of being indifferent or hostile to the Union cause in the Civil War | Copperheads |
| Reconstruction plan proposed by President Lincoln as a quick way to readmit the former confederate states | Ten Percent Plan |
| Insisted on black suffrage and federal protection of civil rights of African Americans | Radical Republicans |
| Congress bill for reconstruction that was vetoed by Lincoln | Wade-Davis Bill |
| Prohibited slavvery and involuntary servitude | Thirteenth Amendment |
| Laws passed that attempted to tie freedmen to field work and prevent them from becoming equal to white southeners | Black Codes |
| Agency that provided freedmen with shelter, food, and medical aid | Freedman's Bureau |
| Provided citizenship to the ex-slaves after the Civil War and constitutionally protected equal rights under the law for all citizens | Fourteenth Amendment |
| Divided the south into five military districts and required states to guarantee black male suffrage | Radical Reconstruction |
| Blacks and poor whites accepted grants to work small bits of land in exhange for delivering about half their harvest to landlords | Sharecropping |
| Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil WAr in order to aid in the reconstruction of the South or invest in its economy | Carpetbaggers |
| Memebers of the National Greenback Party who wanted to keep wartime paper money in circulation | Greenbackers |
| Prohibited the denial of the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or prior condition as a slave | Fifteenth Amendment |
| Secret terrorist society whose goals were to disfranchise blacks, stop Reconstruction, and restore the pre-war social order to the South | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) |
| Three "force" attacks that protected black voters in the South from the KKK | Force Acts |
| Democrats accepted the election of Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the ending of Reconstruction | Compromise of 1877 |
| Representatives of the Old South that took power | Redeemers |
| Laws enacted by states to segregate the population | Jim Crow Laws |
| Set of dances that were believed to cause white men to disappear and restore Native American lands | Ghost Dances |
| Massacre in which about 200 Native Americans were killed in order to stop the Ghost Dances | Wounded Knee Massacre |
| Legislation that aimed at breaking up traditional Indian life by promoting individual land ownership | Dawes Severalty Act |
| The route taken by thousands of travelers from the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Coast | Overland Trail |
| Legislation granting 160 acres of land to anyone who paid a $10 fee and pledged to live on and cultivate the land for 5 years | Homestead Act of 1862 |
| Legislation that used funds gained from sale of public lands to finance irregation projects | National Reclamation Act (Newlands Act) |
| Farming technique that allowed farming in more acid parts of the West | Dry farming |
| Huge farms covering thousands of acres on the Great Plains | Bonanza Farms |
| Provided a social, educational, and cultural outlet for its members to relief the drabness of farm life | National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry |
| Thesis that the existence of a frontier and its settlement had shaped American character | Turner's Thesis |
| Four major railroad networks designed to connect the eastern seaports to the Great Lakes and western Rivers | Trunk lines |
| type of organization in which a single company owns and controls the entire process | Vertical integration |
| Centrally controlled set of monopolies | Trust |
| corporate entities taht own subsidiary corporations | Holding company |
| Excluded Chinese immigrant workers for 10 years and denied U.S. citizenship to Chinese living in the U.S. | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Labor organization that worked for the abolishment of child labor | Knights of Labor |
| Loose alliance of national craft unions that organized skilled workers by craft | American Federation of Labor (AFL) |
| Protest for the slayings of 2 workers that turned into a violent riot | Haymarket riot |
| Violent strike that was provoked by wage-cutting at Carnegie's Homestead Steel plant | Homestead Strike |
| People who immigrated to the U.S. from Europe who were poor and unskilled | New immigrants |
| Reformers who worked to end corruption in politics | Mugwumps |
| Organization that campaigned for the prohibition of alcohol | Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) |
| Organization that worked to secure women the right to vote | National American Woman Suffrage Association |
| Established the doctrine of "separate but equal" | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Theory that led to the "laws" of evolution that led to human life | social Darwinism |
| Doctrine focused on improving living conditions as well as saving souls | Social Gospel |
| Community centers established to help the poor | settlement houses |
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