Civil War
One of the causes of the Civil War: The loyalty many Americans felt toward their section( North, South, or West)
Sectionalism
A person who wants to end slavery
Abolitionist
Promised settlers cheap land if they settled or improved the land.
Homestead Act
After WWII, these two countries dominated global affairs
United States and Soviet Union
Hitler’s Final Solution to murder all the Jews in Europe.
Holocaust
His main goal was to save the union
Abraham Lincoln
Coming from the North to invest and reap profits
Carpetbaggers
Broke up reservations trying to make Indians farmers. Led to sell off of Indian lands.
Dawes Act
The United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Greece and Turkey
Truman Doctrine
Set the precedent that the president is above the law and created mistrust in the government
Watergate Scandal
Conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Literacy Test
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clauses
These are examples of how Southern states _____________________
Limited freedmen's right to vote
Promoting a Bimetallism( Silver & Gold) standard
To help farmers pay off their debts
Cross of Gold Speech
US plan to provide economic aid to European nations after WWII
Marshall Plan
JFK was able to prevent nuclear missiles from being close to the continental United States
Cuban Missile Crisis
Larger Population
Industrialized Economy
Superior Naval Power
Advantages of the North
Why did radical Republicans criticize presidential plans for Reconstruction?
They felt it was too lenient towards the south
State laws passed in the late 1860s and early 1870s regulating the fees grain elevator companies and railroads charged farmers to store and transport their crops.
Grangers Laws
the idea that if one country falls to communism, others around it will as well
Domino Theory
searching for anarchists and communists attempting to overthrow the US Government
Palmer Raids
Turning point of the War
Battle of Vickburg
Legalized racial segregation.
Plessy v. Ferguson
the idea that the United States was destined to expand across North America and spread democracy and capitalism
Manifest Destiny
Korean War
best known for his development of Florida's east coast. He was responsible for building the Florida East Coast Railway
Henry Flagler