Causes of the Civil War
The economy of the North
Industry, finance
Name for Northern plan of attack in Civil War
Anaconda Plan
Three goals of Reconstruction
Restore the union, transform Southern society and uplift the African American
authorized the building of the railroad and granted rights of way to the Union Pacific to build westward from Omaha, Neb., and to the Central Pacific to build eastward from Sacramento, Calif
Pacific Railway Act
Corrupt political machine in NY that used position to control nominations, made promises to immigrants
Boss Tweed
Economy of the West
Agriculture, mineral deposits, oil and lumber
Grant’s strategy to bring war home to the people of the South as he marched to the sea
Total War
13th Amendment
Ends Slavery
Act giving land to settlers west
Homestead Act
Journalists who covered stories that reflected the problems in society at the turn of the century into the 1920s
Muckrakers
The belief that my region of the country is more important than the country itself
Sectionalism
First battle of the Civil War
Ft. Sumter
Gives African Americans the rights and privileges of citizenship
14th Amendment
Act that established reservations for tribes
Dawes Act
Book that led to the reform of the meat packing industry
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
California comes in as free, areas from Mexican-American war are popular sovereignty, no slave sales in DC, Fugitive Slave Law
Compromise of 1850
1st real battle, Confederate victory, Washingtonian spectators gather to watch battle, Gen. Jackson stands as Stonewall and turns tide of battle in favor of Confederates, realization that war is not going to be quick and easy for either side
Bull Run
Plan for Reconstruction that called for five military districts in the South
Congressional
Entrepreneur known for steel industry and vertical integration
Carnegie
First meeting to advance the women’s suffrage movement
Seneca Falls Convention
Court case in which plaintiff was denied rights petitioned as a slave is property and cannot have individual rights
Dred Scott v Sanford
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War, site of inspirational speech by President Lincoln
Gettysburg
Goals were to provide aid to former slaves and poor whites
Freedmens Bureau
Entrepreneur known for oil industry and horizontal integration
Rockefeller
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
19th amendment, 1920