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Godfrey: Polk-Johns
Godfrey: Polk-Andrew Johnson
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First Women's Rights Convention | Seneca Falls Convention |
| War between the US and Mexico over the border with Texas | Mexican War |
| Treaty ending the Mexican War and giving American a lot of land in the West; must decide if this new land is slave or free | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| Famous gold rush of 1849 | California Gold Rush |
| A mining town that springs up suddenly | Boomtown |
| An abandoned mining town | Ghostown |
| Makes California a free state, makes the Fugitive Slave Law stronger, and allows other states to use popular sovereignty in determining slavery | Compromise of 1850 |
| Escaped slaves must be returned to their owners if discovered | Fugitive Slave Law |
| Book written to protest slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| The purchase of a small piece of land from Mexico that cost 10 million dollars | Gadsden Purchase |
| Railroad that goes from coast to coast | Transcontinental Railroad |
| Main workers on the transcontinental railroad | Irish and Chinese |
| Stated that the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would use popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| States determine the outcome of slavery | Popular Sovereignty |
| Nickname for the violence that occurred in a particular state as the people voted on the issue of slavery | Bleeding Kansas |
| Political party that believed in stopping the spread of slavery | Republican |
| Political party that wanted to ban slavery across the entire United States | Free Soilers |
| Strong supporter of popular sovereingty and ran against Lincoln in the 1858 Senate race | Stephen Douglas |
| Ruled that slaves were property and not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional | Dred Scott v. Sanford |
| Raided a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in order to give weapons to slave to start a revolt | John Brown |
| Election in which Abraham Lincoln won due to a split in the democratic party over slavery | Election of 1860 |
| Actions of South Carolina following the Election of 1860 | Secession |
| Leaving the Union | Secession |
| The name for the nations that seceded from the Union | Confederate States of America |
| Act giving settlers in the West 160 acres of land to farm for five consecutive years | Homestead Act |
| First shots of the Civil War | Fort Sumter |
| Bloodiest day of the Civil War | Antietam |
| Turning Point of the Civil War in which Lee loses his first major battle up North | Gettysburg |
| Turning point of the Civil War in which Grant gains control of the Mississippi River | Vicksburg |
| Union plan for winning the Civil War consisting of blockading the South, capturing Richmond, and controling the Mississippi River | Anaconda Plan |
| Confederat strategy for winning the Civil War | Prepare nad Wait / Defensive Warfare / War of Attrition |
| Greatest Union advantage in the Civil War | Resources |
| Lincoln's original reason for fighting the South | Preserve the Union |
| Constitutional right suspended by Lincoln in order to maintain order during the Civil War | Writ of Habeas Corpus |
| Northern Democrats who were against the Civil War | Copperheads |
| Issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in the states of rebellion | Emancipation Proclamation |
| Reason Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation | To keep Britain and France out of the war |
| Method used by Sherman to bring war to the civilians and destroy morale | Total War |
| Amendment giving African Americans the right to vote | 15th Amendment |
| Amendment giving African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law | 14th Amendment |
| Amendment outlawing slavery in the United States | 13th Amendment |
| Time period from 1865-1877 in which the US rebuilt the South | Reconstrution |
| Laws restricting free blacks | Black Codes |
| Laws segregating the races | Jim Crow Laws |
| Government agency organized to help freed slaves adjust to their new lives; instrumental in educating many former slaves | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Organization formed by former Confederates to keep Republicans from voting and control freedmen | Ku Klux Klan |
| Purchase of Alaska | Seward's Folly |
| Law Andrew Johnson violated to be impeached by the Radical Republicans | Tenure of Office Act |
| Group in Congress that wanted to punish the South | Radical Republicans |
| Banned slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico | Wilmot Proviso |
| Favoring Native born Americans over immigrants | Nativism |
| Political Party formed by Nativists | Know Nothings |
| Southern politician beats Northern politician with a cane for degrading the South | Sumner-Brooks Incident |
| Lincoln's plan to rebuild the South | Ten Percent Plan |
| Andrew Johnson's plan to rebuild the South | Presidential Reconstruction |
| Plan of the Radical Republicans to rebuild the South and place them under military rule | Congressional Reconstruction / Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
| Northers who moved South during Reconstruction | Carpetbaggers |
| Southerners who became Republicans during Reconstruction | Scalawags |
| Farmers who rent the land from the land owner in post-Civil War South | Tenant Farmers |
| Farmers who use an owners land in exchange for a portion of the crop; usually continues a cycle od poverty | Sharecropping |
| Agreement allowing Rutherford Hayes to be President if he would end Reconstruction | Compromise of 1877 |
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