Villains
Name of the dictator/general of Mexico during the Texan War for Independence
Santa Anna
Bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War
Antietam
Created the 36-30 line and admitted Maine as a free state
Missouri Compromise
The president responsible for the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
During Reconstruction, plantation owners divided their land out into small parcels and hired many ex-slaves to work the land in this new occupation
Sharecropping
Man who authorized the removal of Native Americans to modern day Oklahoma
Andrew Jackson
180 Texans defended this place against an enemy with more than 10x the amount of soldiers and only women and children were spared
The Alamo
Legislation that enforced the fugitive slave laws under penalty of law
Compromise of 1850
General who ended the Civil War by demoralizing the South through mass destruction
William Tecumseh Sherman
Main general/Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
General Grant’s biggest victory
Vicksburg
Treaty that granted the United States control over the Mexican Cession
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This person wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Group of northern Republicans that moved to the South for political and economic gain
Carpetbaggers
Man responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Gave Andrew Jackson his reputation as a war hero
Battle of New Orleans
Supreme Court decision that legalized segregation
Plessy v Ferguson
Man who brought the first American settlers to Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Group that put in place the harshest reconstruction plan, occupying the South with federal troops
Radical Republicans
Man who is thought to have been bribed with the position of Secretary of State by John Quincy Adams in the Election of 1824 (Corrupt Bargain)
Henry Clay
Battle that ended with Stonewall Jackson being mortally wounded by one of his own men
Chancellorsville
This court case erased the 36-30 line, erased popular sovereignty, and would later be repealed by the 14th Amendment
Dred Scott Decision
Group that helped ex-slaves find jobs, education, family, and homes during Reconstruction
Freedmen's Bureau
Policy signed by John Adams that limited immigration and freedom of speech
Alien and Sedition Acts