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Union General during the civil war.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Gave the North a major morale boost and was known as one of the bloodiest battles
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
A term for white Southerners who joined the Republican Party. Reconstruction Era.
What is Scalawag?
Document released on January 1st, proclaiming all slaves would be free.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
U.S. Senator that executed the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
Philosophy that promoted intuitive, spiritual thinking contrary to science.
What is Transcendentalism?
First official battle of the American Civil War in April.
What is Fort Sumter?
A term used for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
What is CarpetBagger?
Amended that the Washington D.C. Slave trade was abolished.
What is Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act?
Republican winner of the 1860 election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Know Nothing party beliefs and tradition Americanism. Anti-immigrant, 1855.
What is Nativism?
First major battle of the Civil War. Fort Manassas.
What is Battle of Bull Run?
A term used by Southerners to refer to the Union, or Northerners
What is Yankee?
A collection of the 11 states that left the Union and became their own body.
What is Confederacy of the United States?
Transcendentalist author, against Mexican-American war.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Group of political and social terrorists formed during the Reconstruction era.
What is KKK, Ku Klux Klan?
First battle of the Mexican American War.
What is Battle of Palo Alto?
A term used to describe the Pre-War period in history.
What is Antebellum?
What is Appomattox Court House?
War General for the Mexican Army during the Mexican American War.
Who is Santa Anna?
Political Party that believed in a strong federal government.
Forced the South to give up Kentucky and much of Tennessee. Highlighted Ulysses S. Grants skill.
What is Battle of Fort Donelson?
A term used as slang for American dollars.
Congressional act to establish care for all freed slaves after the Civil War.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?