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AH M3 Review
American History Module 3 Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fifty Four Forty or Fight | Demand that the Oregon border with Canada be higher north. |
| Manifest Destiny | Belief that God intended US borders to reach the Pacific Ocean. |
| Expansionism | Domestic policy that encouraged land acquisition. |
| Lonestar Republic | Nickname for Texas during their war for independence from Mexico. |
| James K. Polk | Expansionist president. |
| The Alamo | Site of a major Texan defeat against Mexican leader Santa Anna. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Ended the Mexican-American War. |
| Gadsden Purchase | Additional land purchased along the southern border between US and Mexico. |
| Wilmot Proviso | Belief that Mexican Cession territory should not allow slavery. |
| Mexican Cession | Territory acquired after the Mexican American War. |
| Annex | To add to; in this case, additional territory. |
| Free Soil Party | Precursor to the Republican Party; this group formed primarily to support the abolition of slavery. |
| Popular Sovereignty | Principle belief that a state’s authority stems from the consent of its people. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay’s proposal of separate bills to negotiate peace and avoid war between slave and free states. |
| Sectionalism | Regional loyalty as opposed to the whole country. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Part of the Compromise of 1850, it was a law requiring run away slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Created Kansas and Nebraska as states allowing for popular sovereignty to decide the existence of slavery. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Event following the Kansas-Nebraska Act in which pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions fought one another in the Kansas territory. |
| Harper's Ferry | Site of John Brown’s raid of the federal arsenal with the intent to incite rebellion against slavery. |
| Know Nothing Party | Political group created with the purpose of excluding American Indians and all foreign citizens. |
| Jefferson Davis | Elected president of the Confederate States of America. |
| Fort Sumter | One of the last few remaining Union Forts Lincoln tried to defend from southern attack. |
| Secession | To break away or split. |
| Confederate States of America | New government founded by southern states that seceded from the Union. |
| Blockade | Union strategy of blocking southern ships from entering or leaving southern ports. |
| Anaconda Plan | Union strategy of blockading Southern ports and cutting off use of the Mississippi River. |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate General that is praised for his brilliant military strategy and leadership. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union General that would go on to become a US President. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Declaration by Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves in all rebellious territories. |
| 54th Massachusetts | All black regiment that valiantly fought for the Union. |
| Copperhead | Northerners who disliked Abraham Lincoln and disagreed with his leadership. |
| Habeus Corpus | Constitutional right suspended during the war that allows the government to jail citizens without being accused of a crime. |
| Clara Barton | Union nurse that revolutionized care for soldiers. |
| Conscription | The draft, or forcing soldiers into joining the war effort. |
| Gettysburg | Site of the decisive Battle of Gettysburg, a major turning point of the Civil War. |
| Total War | War strategy that includes attacking both civilian and military targets. |
| 13th Amendment | Constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery in the US. |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated Abraham Lincoln. |
| Reconstruction | Time period just after the Civil War in which legislatures attempted to returned seceded states back to the Union. |
| Radical Republicans | Republicans that openly opposed Lincoln’s early plans for after the war. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Agency that would provide food, clothing, healthcare, and education for black and white refugees in the South. |
| Black Code | Laws that sought to limit the rights of Blacks and keep them as landless workers. |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Guarantees citizenship to Black men and women. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | States not citizens can be denied the right to vote because of race or color. |
| Scalawag | White southerners who later joined the Republican party. |
| Carpetbagger | Northerners who traveled South, seeking to take advantage of the South’s misfortunes. |
| Tenant Farming | Instead of owning a farm outright, farmers would “rent” land from a larger farm. |
| Sharecropping | Landowner “shares” his crop with a farmer, in exchange for their labor. |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln’s Vice President, who assumed office after his assassination. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Federal promise to protect black civil rights. |
| Redeemer | Southern Democrats that wanted to rid Southern governments of Republican control. |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Union general turned Republican presidential candidate. |
| Compromise of 1877 | Signaled the end of Reconstruction after the election of Hayes. |
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