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AH ch 10-14
Study Stack For American History 12-6-10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is The Emancipation Proclimation? | A proclimation that slaves in the areas of rebeelion against the government would be free |
| What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | An act letting the people in Kansas and Nebraska decide wether they wanted slavery or not |
| What is Nativism? | A movement to ensure that native-born Americans received better treatment than immigrants |
| What is a Carpet-Bagger? | Northeraners that were greedy and out to make a fast buck |
| What is a Tenant Farmer | Farmers that didnt own the land they farmed |
| Who was Grant | The commander of the Union Army after |
| Who was Lee | The general of the Confederate Army |
| What is War of Attrition | Type of war where one side inflicts continous losses on an enemy in order to wear down its stregnth |
| What was the Compromise of 1850 | Congress would admit California as a free state, the people of the territories of New Mexico and Utah would decide themselves wether slavery would be legal, Congress would abolish the sale of slaves, but not slavery, in Washington D.C, |
| What was the Fugitive Slave Act | An order all citizens of the return of enslaved people who had escaped from their owners |
| What was Reconstruction? | The period after the Civil War where the nation rebuilt the South |
| What were the good things of Reconstruction? | It rebuilt the south, gave freedom and rights to African Americans, had the Fourteenth Amendment and Fifiteenth Amendment passed, elected black leaders, granted the african americans the right to vote |
| What were the bad things of Reconstruction? | African Americans had black codes, there was corruption in government |
| Who was the KKK? | A group of white males that spread fear throughout the African American community through violence |
| Who was Custer? | A general who's whole army was killed by Crazy Horse in an hour after invading the Black Hills and started the Indian-American Wars |
| Who was Sitting Bull? | A cheif of the Souix tribe who proposed to make war and not peace upon the American invaders |
| Who was Crazy Horse? | Another cheif of the Souix tribe who fought the Americans |
| What was the Populist Movement? | Followers of the People's Party that demanded radical changes in federal economic and social policies |
| What was the Battle Of Wounded Knee | The last major Indian-American battle where more than 200 Souix were killed |
| What was the Sherman-Anti-Trust-Act? | A law that outlawed any combonation of comapanies that restrained interstate trade or commerce |
| What were Captains of Industry? | A term that said that business leaders served their nation in a positive way. |
| What were Robber Barons? | A term that implied that business leaders built their fortunes by stealing from the public |
| What were Radicals? | The Republicans that beleived that the Civil War had been fought over the moral issue of slavery |
| Who was General Mclellan? | The commander before Grant who's magic number of forces was 100,000 or 10,000 or 1,000 |
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