Acts and Rights
A U.S. law that organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery in these territories to be decided by popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act:
Women who actively fought for women’s suffrage, the legal right to vote in public elections.
Suffragettes
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Manifest Destiny
Is a political system in which independent states or regions unite under a central government for specific purposes, such as defense or foreign policy, while retaining significant autonomy in their own affairs.
Confederation
The process of reunification by unveiling a three-part proposal, outlined how the states would return.
Ten-Percent Plan
A proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed by Congress in 1861, just before the Civil War. It aimed to protect slavery in states where it already existed by preventing Congress from interfering with slavery in those states.
Corwin Amendment
Used as a term of abuse towards northern white republicans that came to the south to acquire wealth through political power at the expense of southerner.
Carpetbaggers
was the independent nation established by Texas in 1836 after winning independence from Mexico
Lone Star Republic
Was a period of major economic and technological transformation that began in the late 18th century and continued into the 19th century
Industrial Revolution
Cultivating farmland giving a part of each crop as rent.
Sharecropping
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
The Thirteenth Amendment
were the gold-seekers who flocked to California in 1849 during the Gold Rush
Forty-niners
Underground Railroad
Was a secret network of routes, safe houses, and people—primarily abolitionists, free Blacks, and Quakers—who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom in the Northern states and Canada during the 19th century
Was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War. It declared that all enslaved people in the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union would be “then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
Emancipation Proclamation
A series of discriminatory state laws, designed to maintain the social and economic structure of racial slavery in the absence of slavery itself.
Black Codes
The Fourteenth Amendment
Guarantees citizenship, equal protection under the law, the right to due process.
in military terms refers to an unauthorized military expedition or invasion carried out by a group of individuals, often aimed at seizing territory or influencing political outcomes in another country.
Filibuster
Refers to the political influence and control exercised by southern slaveholders in the U.S. government during the mid-19th century. This concept was used by abolitionists and antislavery advocates to describe how a relatively small group of slaveholders dominated national politics, suppressed opposition to slavery, and manipulated laws
Slave Power
Were a group of radical pro-slavery Democrats in the southern United States during the 1850s. They were known for their militant advocacy of slavery and their threats to secede from the Union if slavery was threatened or restricted.
Fire-Eaters
A period of time where the US sought to reintegrate Southern states.
Reconstruction
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen’s right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
A person who, in the early 19th century, was granted a large tract of land in Texas by the Mexican government. These individuals were responsible for recruiting and settling families in these lands, often from the United States, in exchange for land concessions.
Empresario
Was a cultural concept in the antebellum American South that emphasized personal dignity, reputation, and the defense of one’s honor through actions like duels, challenges, or violent retribution
Southern Code of Honor
Refer to a series of violent protests that erupted in New York City in July 1863, primarily in response to the Conscription Act of 1863, which required able-bodied men to register for the military draft.
Draft Riots
White Southerners who supported reconstruction and the republican party after the civil war, often viewed as traitors by other southerners.
Scalawags