People
USA general - overly cautious
George McClellan
CSA commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
Robert E. Lee
a minority group’s adoption of the beliefs & way of life of the dominate culture.
Assimilate
Lincoln’s memorial speech given in PA
Gettysburg Address
This secret society was established to intimidate and terrorize former slaves
Ku Klux Klan
president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown
roaming about from place to place without a fixed pattern
Nomadic
belief that the USA has the right and duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection to anyone born in the U. S.?
14th Amendment
leader of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
J. Lawrence Chamberlain
Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
laws that created segregation in the South
Jim Crow Laws
Group that gave supplies to poor whites, set up schools for former slaves, and found jobs for former slaves
Freemen's Bureau
List the 3 things that happened after Native Americans tamed wild horses.
1. They could travel farther and faster
2. They could hunt more buffalo
3. The buffalo became their main source of food
Lakota Chief, unified forces at the Battle of Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull
officer responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre
John Chivington
Supreme Court case stating ‘separate but equal’ accommodations for blacks
Plessy V. Ferguson
right of people within a territory to choose slavery/no slavery within a territory
Popular Soverignty
What were the 2 main causes of the Mexican War?
a dispute over boundaries and the American desire to annex California
impeached by the Radical Republicans in 1868
Andrew Johnson
Apache leader, last Native American to surrender
Geronimo
US plan to give land to Natives, but it split up their tribes
Dawes Act
law removed many restrictions against those who had served in the Confederate forces
Amnesty Act of 1872
The purpose of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 was to connect the Pacific Ocean to which river?
Mississippi River