STATES
land that Mexico gave to the United States after the Mexican War through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; includes present-day California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming.
MEXICAN CESSION
belief of many Americans in the mid-1800s that God intended the United States to expand westward
MANIFEST DESTINY
(1865-77) period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to rebuild the former Confederate states and reunite the nation
RECONSTRUCTION
also guy behind Pottawatomie Massacre; he and his sons took over a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was arrested and hanged. The North sympathized and honored him as a martyr. The South was appalled that some Northerners considered him anything but a homicidal maniac. His actions were one contributing factor to the Civil War breaking out.
JOHN BROWN
Side in Civil War that only had to fight a defensive war
WHAT IS THE SOUTH?
Name one of the four slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War.
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
practice of allowing voters in a territory to decide whether to permit slavery there
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
Northern Republicans who moved to the South during Reconstruction; northerners who came to the South to participate in state conventions
CARPETBAGGERS
Who believed that African Americans should react to discrimination by working to achieve economic independence, which would eventually lead to political and social equality? He was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Side in Civil War that had a larger population
WHAT IS THE NORTH?
Name one of the four states that seceded when Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to put down the "rebellion" after the fall Fort Sumter.
Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia
The Confederacy passed the first _____, or draft, act in U.S. history in 1862. Large plantation owners were exempt from the draft, leading some to call the war, "a rich man's war and a poor man' fight."
conscription
agency established by Congress in 1865 to help southerners left homeless and hungry by the Civil War
FREEDMEN'S BUREAU
Confederate general; nicknamed "Stonewall”; died after being shot by his
own men during the Battle of Chancellorsville. His men mistook him for a Union cavalryman.
THOMAS JACKSON
Side in Civil War that had most of the nation's railroad lines
WHAT IS THE NORTH?
This portion of a state did not secede from the Union with the rest of its state. In 1863, it was admitted to the Union as a state.
WEST VIRGINIA
A profitable business practice of mountain fur trappers; they gathered only once a year to sell their furs.
RENDEZVOUS SYSTEM
It settled the disputed presidential election of 1876. Democrats agreed to accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the South.
COMPROMISE OF 1877
a well-known photographer of the Civil War
MATHEW BRADY
Side in Civil War that had more money, factories, and other resources
WHAT IS THE NORTH?
first state to secede from the Union; Civil War begins here when Confederate forces open fire on Fort Sumter
SOUTH CAROLINA
President Lincoln suspended some civil liberties during the Civil War, including the constitutional right of this, which provides protection against unlawful imprisonment.
habeas corpus
Democratic supporters of white-controlled governments in the South in the 1870s
REDEEMERS
Swiss adventurer who ran a fort and trading post on the California Trail where gold was first found in 1848.
JOHN AUGUSTUS SUTTER
Side in Civil War that had excellent military leadership
WHAT IS THE SOUTH?