People
Coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny"
Who is John O'Sullivan?
An act that divided the conquered South into five military districts, each under the command of a U.S. general.
What is Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Cool convention with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Fredrick Douglass about the women's rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Connected big cities and was super helpful in economics.
What is Railroads?
The Union general who marched his troops around burning a bunch of stuff and waging total warfare.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Laws that required separation of the races in public facilities
What is Jim Crow laws?
Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
GOLD! GO WEST!
What is the California Gold Rush?
Chief Justice who was known for the Dread Scott Decision
Who is Robert B. Taney?
Caused a bunch of immigrants to come over who then created cultural enclaves.
What is the Irish Potato famine?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
A system where the landlord allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
What is Sharecropping?
Commandeered an armed Confederate ship and took the 17 back passengers from slavery to freedom.
Who is Robert Smalls?
Proposal to ban slavery in the territories that was passed in the house but shut down by the senate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Laws passed that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories. Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850?
when an immigrant comes, and then their families and the people they know come too, and it goes on and on like that?
What is Chain Migration?
Organized military expeditions of Mexico and had the intention of establishing private colonies
Who is William Walker?
Government organization created in March 1865 to aid displaced blacks and other war refugees
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A Supreme Court decision in 1875 that ruled that suffrage rights were not inherent in citizenship and had not been granted by the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Minor v. Happersett?
A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863 that required all farmers to turn over a small percentage of their crops and livestock to the government for military use
What is the one tenth tax?