SS Final 2017 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Santa Anna) | led the Mexican Army during the War for Texas Independence |
Gold Rush - California | began in 1849 with gold being found near Sutter’s Mill |
Civil War Advantage | The North had an advantage over the South b/c of its bigger army and factories |
Battle of Gettysburg | -the bloodiest battle of the Civil War -had the most casualties -lasted 3 days |
Civil War Generals | Grant led the Union (North) Robert E. Lee led the Confederacy (South) |
15th Amendment | right to vote could not be based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
Lincoln’s Assassination | -the 1st president to be assassinated -was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre -Andrew Johnson & William Seward were supposed to be assassinated too |
John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated President Lincoln |
Radical Reconstruction | -made terms more strict for Southern states to rejoin the Union -Republicans in congress insisted on making drastic changes after the Civil War |
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan | -Radical Republicans disagreed with this plan -Southerner’s used threats and violence to resist changing their way of life |
Mountain Men | made their living as fur trappers |
Fugitive Slave Act | -led to more anger in the North -said that a person could be fined or imprisoned for helping fugitive slaves |
Election of 1860 | -Lincoln received the most electoral votes from the North -Democratic party was divided -caused 11 Southern states to secede from the Union |
Gettysburg Address | showed that Lincoln’s belief that this nation was founded on equality |
Louisiana Territory/Purchase | -was purchased from France by Thomas Jefferson -doubled the size of the US |
Manifest Destiny | God meant for land to be owned by US |
Fort Sumter | location of the 1st conflict in the Civil War |
Appomattox Court House | site of Robert E. Lee’s surrender |
border states | states located between the north and south that allowed slavery |
poll tax | fee paid before voting |
Ku Klux Klan | secret society of terrorists who used threats and violence to intimidate African Americans |
cotton | cash crop of the South |
Andrew Johnson | became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated |
Missouri Compromise | -Maine was admitted as a free state -Missouri was admitted as a slave state -imaginary line drawn at 36’30” |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet B. Stowe - author who wrote about horrors of slavery |
Trail of Tears | The journey when the Native Americans were forced west to Oklahoma |
Underground Railroad | Helped many enslaved African Americans escape from the South to freedom |
Sectionalism | an exaggerated loyalty to a certain region of the country |
Dred Scott decision | stated that slaves were property, Congress could not pass laws that would take them away from their owners |
John Brown’s raid | Happened at Harper’s Ferry, VA |
Dorothea Dix | Reformer- was responsible for improving conditions in prisons |
Leland Stanford | Hammered the gold spike completing the Transcontinental Railroad |
Vaqueros | Skilled riders who herded cattle on ranches in the Southwest |
Sitting Bull | Lakota chief who fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn |
General George A. Custer | Died at the Battle of Little Big Horn |
Chief Joseph | Nez Perez leader who refused to leave the northwest |
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