Reconstruction
One means of inhibiting black voters without explicitly violating the 15th amendment
Poll tax, literacy test
The cattle industry began after the Civil War, with large herds of cattle industry this southern state
Texas
Key economic issue that divided Democrats and Whigs in the 1830s
The National Bank
Term for the belief in US territorial expansion
Manifest Destiny, Young America
The dispute over slavery in this mid western territory throughout the 1850s kept the controversy boiling
Kansas
The first attempt by the Radicals to control the reconstruction plan; Lincoln pocket vetoed it
Wade Davis Bill
Policy the US government created to give away farmland in West
Homestead act
Economic Crisis that killed Van Buren’s re-election
Panic of 1837
He encouraged US migration to Mexican Texas
Stephen F. Austin
He created the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and unleashed tremendous chaos as a result
Stephen Douglas
System by which people farm on someone else’s land, in exchange for a portion of the crop
Crop-lien system, or sharecroppjng
Painter and sculptor whose works came to represent the romance of the west
Frederic Remington
One Marshall Court case that expanded the power of the Supreme Court or the federal government
McCulloch, Marshall, Gibbons, Dartmouth, and others
It was the chief migration route from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast
Oregon Trail
The compromise of 1850 weakened this political party the Kansas Nebraska Act killed it
The Whig Party
1866 Supreme Court case that limited Congress’ power to impose Reconstruction Laws on the South; Congress responded by threatening to permanently weaken the supreme court
Ex Parte Milligan
One book or form of entertainment show that helped romanticize the life of the cowboy
The Virginian, buffalo bill cody, Cody’s Wild West show, the winning of the west, Turners frontier thesis
Term for expanding transportation, growing banking system, and the beginnings of the industrial growth in the 1820s and 1830s
The Market Revolution
These people, from New England mostly, made the first contact between Americans and Spanish California
Whalers or Merchants
Party committed to nativism rose quickly faded almost as fast
American Party
Agency established in 1865 to help protect and preserve order for blacks in the South
Freedman’s Bureau
Author of the Significance of the Frontier in American History whose ideas have dominated the history of the West for more than a century
Frederick Jackson Turner
Specie Circular
This US President first embraced Texas Annexation, but his hope for an annexation treaty (an re-election) failed in 1884
John Tyler
The Supreme Court failed badly to end the sectional debate with this ruling
Dred Scott