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President Martin Van Buren carried the banner for this political party. Supporters of this party came from antislavery Whigs dismayed by their party's nomination of a slaveholder and its evasiveness on the territorial issue, disgruntles Democrats who had backed the proviso and resented southern influence in their party, and some of the former adherents of the abolitionist Liberty party.
What is Free-Soil Party
100
Believed slave states should act as a unit.
What is cooperationists
100
After the Civil War, the southern states adopted this system as a compromise between former slaves who wanted land of their own and former slave owners who needed labor. The landowners provided land, tools, and seed to a farming family, who in turn provided labor.
What is sharecropping
100
Proposed the anaconda policy.
What is General Winfield Scott
100
Militant advocates of "peace at any price".
What is Copperheads
200
This resembled Henry Clay's earlier compromises. It advocated extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific to guarantee the protection of slavery in the southwestern territories and in any territories south of the line that might later be acquired.
What is Crittenden compromise
200
They favored protection for black rights (especially black suffrage) as a precondition for the readmission of southern states.
What is Radical Republicans
200
This provided that once 10 percent of more of the voting population of any occupied state had taken the oath, they were authorized to set p a loyal government.
What is Ten Percent Plan
200
This Union army general, who fought a series of bloody battles in northern Virginia, against confederate general Robert E. Lee, later went on to become President of the United States.
What is Ulysses S. Grant
200
Seen as an abomination for many Northerners because it permitted the possibility of slavery in an area where it had previously been prohibited.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
300
This treaty ceded Mexico and California to the United States for $15 million, established the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico, and promised that the U.S. government would assume the substantial claims of American citizens against Mexico. It also provided that the Mexican residents of the new territories would become U.S. citizens.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
300
This prohibited any state from denying a male citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is Fifteenth Amendment
300
This created a major boost for irrigators by setting aside most of the proceeds from the sale of public lands in sixteen western states to finance irrigation projects in the arid states. (1902)
What is National Reclamation Act (Newlands Act)
300
He established the Mormon community in Utah; it is one of the great success stories of western settlement.
What is Brigham Young
300
This man was the hero of San Jacinto and became the first president of Texas.
What is Sam Houston
400
This required that 50 percent of the voters take an oath of future loyalty before the restoration process could begin.
What is Wade Davis Bill
400
A temporary agency set up to aid the former slaves by providing relief, education, legal help, and assistance in obtaining land or employment. One of the two bills vetoed by Johnson that passed with overwhelming Republican support.
What is Freedman's Bureau
400
A new technique that compensated for the lack of rainfall in the late 1800s. Furrows were plowed approximately a foot deep and filled with a dust mulch to loosen soil and slow evaporation.
What is dry farming
400
He made himself dictator of Mexico and abolished the federal system of government.
What is General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
400
The most important legal development in Indian-white relations during the late 1800s. It divided tribal lands into smaller plots for distribution among members of the tribe.
What is Dawes Severalty Act
500
This is a conflict which is a test of every aspect of society, economy, and political systems as well as a battle of wits between opposing strategists; the civil war was one of these.
What is total war
500
A loose alliance of national craft unions. It organized only skilled workers along craft lines, avoided politics, and worked for specific practical objectives.
What is American Federation of Labor (AFL)
500
The Confederacy thought major foreign powers such as England and France might offer them aid because the industrial economies of those European nations depended on the importation of this.
What is southern cotton
500
Founded the Knights of Labor with a group of Philadelphia garment workers.
What is Uriah S. Stephens
500
The Confederacy moved it’s capital from montgomery alabama to this city.
What is Richmond, Virginia