People who didn't believe in slavery were called what?
100
Congress passed an act on March 3, 1865 to establish the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. ... The amendment was designed to provide citizenship and civil liberties to the recently freed slaves.
What did the reconstruction act of 1876 do?
100
1781-1860
When was the antebellum period in America
100
April 12, 1861 to Spring of 1865
When was civil war fought
100
the idea that the United States had a special mission to extend its borders to the Pacific-also contributed to the migrations west
What is manifest destiny?
200
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
200
white southern republican who opposed secession; many were poor and sent to the south as traitors
What are scalawags
200
6 percent of Southern whites owned slaves
How many people were slave owners
200
North
Who won civil war
200
ended the War with Mexico, made the Rio Grande the border between Mexico and US and gave US the Mexican Cession
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalg
300
The north was more industrial and didn't have plantations.
What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?
300
northern republicans who fled to the south to profit from the south's misery; came to make money off the damaged South
What are carpetbaggers
300
Five thousand Mexican soldiers under General Santa Anna lay siege to the Alamo, an old mission in San Antonio, Texas, that has been occupied by Americans fighting for Texas independence.
What is Siege of the Alamo
300
the union
what were northern states called
300
US, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia
What countries claimed Oregon territory
400
They were primarily agricultural and needed labor to help grow crops
What about the southern economy made slavery seem necessary?
400
farm a portion of planters land. planter provides housing and food and the sharecroppers paid rent with a large portion of the crop he raised. Sharecroppers always in cycle of debt
What is sharecropping
400
Another financial depression inaugurates a recession that endures for two years. Prices fall, as does production.
What is the Panic of 1839
400
the confederacy
What were southern states called
400
doubled the land size of the US
How large is the Louisiana Territory
500
She was an escaped slave that created the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman and how did she contribute to the Civil War?
500
All people except women are allowed to vote
What is the 15th amendment
500
South Carolina during the period between the War of 1812, which ended in 1815, and the American Civil War, which began in 1861.
What is Antebellum South
500
South Carolina
What is the first state to secede from the United States