People
Republican Party organizations in northern cities that became an
important organizing device among freed-
men in southern cities after 1865.
What was the Union League?
1866 act that gave full
citizenship to African Americans.
What was the Civil Rights Act?
The notion that proclaimed America’s fate to continue westward
What was Manifest Destiny?
This invention revolutionized the harvest of a major cash crop, making it far easier to collect than before.
What was the Cotton Gin?
This was an important spur to exploration on the North American continent.
What was the Fur Trade?
Northern transplants
to the South, many of whom were Union
soldiers who stayed in the South after
the war.
What were the Carpetbaggers?
Freed slaves in all Confederate States that were in rebellion.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The feeling Americans felt to keep immigrants out.
What was Nativism?
Carried financial news in the West to New York
What was the Telegraph?
Labor system that evolved during and after Reconstruction whereby
landowners furnished laborers with a house, farm animals, and tools and advanced credit in exchange for a share
of the laborers’ crop.
What was Sharecropping?
Southern whites, mainly
small landowning farmers and well-off
merchants and planters, who supported
the southern Republican Party during
Reconstruction.
What were Scalawags?
4-step compromise that admitted CA as a free state, allowed residents to decide about slavery, ended slave trade and passed new fugitive slave law
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The taking and settling of land by Americans embraced by ideas of Manifest Destiny and assisted by transportation like the Transcontinental Railroad.
What was Expansionism?
Tools created to get gold during the gold rush.
What were Gold Pans?
Economic crisis caused by the failure of the prominent banking firm Jay Cooke and Company.
What was the Panic of 1873?
Anti-immigrant party formed from the wreckage of the Whigs.
Who were the Know-Nothings?
The act that repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Ideas of reintegrating the South into the Union by pardons of former Confederates who pledged loyalty.
What was Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?
Guns mass produced during the Civil War.
What were muskets?
Banking crisis that caused
a credit crunch in the North; it was less
severe in the South, where high cotton
prices spurred a quick recovery.
What was the Panic of 1857?
A shifting group of Republican congressmen, usually a substantial minority, who favored the abolition of slavery from the beginning of the Civil War and later advocated harsh treatment of the defeated South.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Laws that denied rights to free black people before the Civil War
What were the Black Codes?
Idea that the power of a state belongs to the people.
What was Popular Sovereignty?
Temporary settlements created during the Gold Rush.
What were mining camps?
The Influx of miners wanting a piece of a newly founded metal in California.
What was the Gold Rush?