Lead Up to the Civil War
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
After the Mexican-American War, Mexico was forced to give America 525,000 acres of land in the Midwest.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Was supposed to free all slaves in the South, but very few people were freed.
What was sharecropping?
A condition similar to slavery, trapped African Americans in a cycle of debt.
What did Unions want?
Better working hours, higher wages, safer conditions.
What was the Texas Revolution?
Texas was part of Mexico, but did not want to. Texan and Mexican settlers fought, until Texas won. Texas then became its own country.
What was the North's strategy for winning the war?
the Anaconda Plan, blockade all Southern ports and run them out of supplies
What amendment did the Radical Republicans create and why?
The 14th Amendment, gave African Americans citizenship.
Why were people scared of the closing of the frontier?
No fallback plan, no more open land in the U.S.
What was Marxism?
The idea that the people will overthrow the government, and then there will be no classes. All wealth will be divided evenly.
What was important about the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri added as a slave state, and Maine as a free state.
The Northernmost border of Missouri is the line where slave and free states exist.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
the bloodiest battle in American history, major losses on both sides. Robert E. Lee retreated, Union won.
Explain the Hayes/Tilden election and the Compromise of 1877.
There was a tie, so Hayes became prez after swearing to remove Union troops from South, ending Reconstruction.
What was the Dawes Act?
Divided reservations into individual allotments for N/As. After 25 years, they could become citizens.
Explain the Pullman Strike of 1864
Pullman workers struck, and Pullman hired "detectives" to put down the strike. Mixed opinions about what went on that day.