Terms
Annexation of Texas from the US
What is the Texan Revolution?
Symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
the 16th president
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Financial crisis caused by over speculation and currency inflation
What was the Crisis of 1857?
Manufacturing and free labor
What was one advantage for the North during the Civil War?
President during the expansion of the west and the Mexican American War.
Who was James K. Polk?
Inventor of the telegraph
Who was Samuel F.B. Morse
Union general credited with winning the American Civil War
Who was U.S. Grant?
Attracted tens of thousands of people to California
What was the California Gold Rush?
Slow population growth, slavery, and large plantations
What were Southern advantages during the Civil War?
"from sea to shining sea"
What is Manifest Destiny?
Radical Faction of the Democratic party from New York.
Who were the Barnburners?
Established themselves to secure white supremacy.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
First battle of the Civil War
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
Technology that allowed President Lincoln to communicate daily with his generals
What was the telegraph?
Coined in 1846 to the reoccupation of Oregon
What is 54-40 or Fight?
A series of meeting between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
Assassin of Abraham Lincoln
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Grant won control of the Mississippi River after winning this battle
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
Surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House VA
What was the official end to the Civil War?
Dethroned leader of the Mexican Army
Who was Santa Ana
Aslo known as The Native American or American Party during the 1850's
Who was the Know Nothing Party?
Considered the founder of Texas
Who was Stephen F.Austin?
Because of a Supreme Court ruling, this case changed the course of life for African American Slaves in the 1850-1860's
What was the Dred Scott Decision of 1857?
Plan to restore the Union back to wholeness again
What was Reconstruction?