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This group was founded in 1867 by a former Confederate general, Nathaniel Bedford Forrest. It burned Black-owned buildings and flogged and murdered several thousand freedmen to keep them from exercising their voting rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This court case was about an enslaved man who argued he was a free citizen because he resided on free soil.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford?
This war, fought from 1846 to 1848, resulted in significant territorial gains for the United States.
What is the Mexican-American war?
This treaty, negotiated by diplomat Nicholas Trist, led to Mexico recognizing the Rio Grande as the Southern boarder of Texas and the U.S taking possession of California and New Mexico
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A party organized by Northerners who opposed allowing slavery in the territories. They also advocated for free homesteads and internal improvements such as roads and harbors
What is the Free-Soil Party?
This president firmly believed in Manifest Destiny and favored the annexation of Texas.
Who is James K. Polk?
This act pronounced that all African Americans were U.S. citizens and attempted to provide a legal shield against the operation of the Southern states’ Black Codes.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This battle occurred in July, 1863, and resulted in more than 50,000 casualties. It was considered one of the most crucial battles in the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This compromise withdrew the last of the federal troops protecting African Americans and other Republicans.
Hostility towards German and Irish immigrants, which resulted in sporadic rioting in the big cities
This person was the new commander of the Union army in the East, and he insisted that troops be trained for a long period of time before going into the battle of Bull Run
Who is George B. McClellan?
A proslavery constitution for Kansas submitted by the Southern legislature.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
This 1862 battle is a turning point in the war, the point at which Southern victories were halted, and after which Lincoln was able to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This was the location of Lee's surrender to Grant in the Civil War
What is Appomattox Court House?
Members of the antislavery Democrats were called this because their defection threatened to destroy the Democratic Party.
This person was nominated as president for the Constitutional Union Party.
Who is John Bell?
This act encouraged states to use the sale of federal land grants to found and maintain agricultural and technical colleges.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
This 1863 battle effectively secured Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This treaty allowed U.S vessels to enter two Japanese ports to take on coal.
What is the Kanagawa Treaty?
This is the political philosophy stated by Stephen Douglas when Lincoln asked him whether the Supreme Court or the will of the people was superior.
What is the the Freeport Doctrine?
This person invented the sewing machine and took production of clothing out of homes and into factories
Who is Elias Howe?
This law prohibited the president from removing a federal official or military commander without Senate approval.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
In this battle, Robert E. Lee struck quickly against Pope’s army in Northern Virginia; he also drew Pope into a trap, struck the enemy’s flank, and sent the Union army back.
What is the Second Battle of Bull Run?
A treaty to prevent both the U.S and Great Britain from building a canal through Central America on their own.
What is the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty?
Any of several common-law writs issued to bring a party before a court or judge. This means "you should have the body" in Latin.
What is Habeas Corpus?