A religious dance incorporated into numerous American Indian belief systems
What is Ghost Dance?
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American Indians
White settlers took land away from...
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Scott's master
Who was Sanford?
100
The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved
What is Slavery?
100
Union
During the Civil War, the Union came to mean the government and armies of the North
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Railroads
Replaced canals as a primary mode of transportation.
200
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century settlers moved across North America
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware- remain part of the Union as a slave state
What were border states?
200
A way of settling disagreements in which each side gives away a little in its demands
What is Compromise?
200
Confederacy
Another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union
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Oregon Trail
A 2,170 mile east west large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon
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Entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic,
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
favored nativism, free soil, had strong aboltion wing, as well as strong industrial growth
What is The Republican party?
300
Emancipation Proclamation
A special order by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declaring slaves in Confederate sates to be free
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July 1st-3rd (1863) Union leaders defeated General Lee. A turning point battle during the Civil War
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
400
Authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians
What is Dawes Act?
400
Mormons
Settlers led by Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, moved to Utah Territory and learned how to survive in the harsh desert climate
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Harper's Ferry
1859 John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged
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13th Amendment
A change to the Constitution (1865) that abolished slavery in US (made it illegal)
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14th Amendment
A change to the Constitution (1868) granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law
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United States general who was a hero of the Mexican American War (1846-1847) and later, of the Civil War;
Who was Winfield Scott
500
Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico: Divided Congress by sectional lines
What is Wilmot Proviso?
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Act the act supported the idea of popular sovereignty in which the people of the territory vote on the slavery issue instead of leaving it up to congress
What is The Kansas Nebraska Act?
500
A change to the Constitution (1870) declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was a slave
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
The period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back to the Union