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This amendment abolished slavery.
What is Thirteenth Amendment
100
Also known as squatter sovereignty; meant the settlers could vote slavery up or down at the first meeting of a territorial legislature.
What is popular sovereignty
100
Paper money that could not be redeemed in gold and silver
What is greenbacks
100
This pro-confederacy actor assassinated Abraham Lincoln at ford’s theater in Washington on April 14, 1865.
What is John Wilkes Booth
100
The famous route great overland route that brought the wagon trains of American immigrants to the West Coast during the 1840s.
What is the Oregon Trail.
200
These subjected former slaves to a variety of special regulations and restrictions on their freedom.
What is Black Codes
200
The main threat to Southern republican regimes. This secret society bent on restoring white supremacy by intimidating blacks who sought to exercise their political rights.
What is Klu Klux Klan
200
Issued by Abraham Lincoln. This gave the Confederate States 100 days to give up the struggle without losing their slaves.
What is Emancipation Proclamation
200
The first of America's "accidental presidents" who initiated the politics of Manifest Destiny.
What is John Tyler
200
The first official battle of the Civil War was waged near this location.
What is Bull Run (the Battle of Bull Run)
300
An act requiring Senate approval for the removal of cabinet officers and other officials whose appointments had needed the consent of the Senate.
What is Tenure of Office Act
300
This group was bitterly disappointed with the passage of the amendment granting blacks the right to vote.
What is Feminists
300
Members of this promoted health in the northern army's camps through attention to cleanliness, nutrition, and medical care.
What is Sanitary Commission
300
After Joseph E. Johnston was severely wounded in battle (Civil War), this person succeeded him in command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
What is Robert E. Lee
300
This act provided for the outright conscription of white males but permitted men of wealth to hire substitutes or pay a fee to avoid military service. It provoked a violent response from those unable to buy their way out of service.
What is Enrollment Act
400
This established a definite northeastern boundary with Canada.
What is Webster-Ashburton Treaty
400
This was composed mainly of Irish-American laborers, and consisted of the burning of draft offices, the homes of leading Republicans, and an orphanage for black children. They also lynched more than a dozen defenseless blacks.
What is New York Riot of July 1863
400
The group or organization that provided isolated farmers of the Midwest and South with social and cultural activities in the late 19th century.
What is the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry/ the Grange
400
The 1800s most prominent man of letters; he revealed in his Civil War writings that the conflict encouraged a dramatic shift in American thought about the relationship between the individual and society.
What is Ralph Waldo Emerson
400
This decided to permit a vote on slavery provision alone, giving the electorate the narrow choice of allowing or forbidding the future importation of slaves.
What is Lecompton constitution.
500
The idea of a young country led by young men into new paths of prosperity and greatness whichappealed to many people and found support across political party lines. (1840-1850s)
What is Young American Ideal
500
Men who came to power after Radical Reconstruction fell in one southern state after another.
What is Redeemers
500
A type of organization in which a single company owns and controls the entire process from the unearthing of the raw materials to the manufacture and sale of the finished product.
What is vertical integration
500
Leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) who served as president of the group from 1879-1898.
What is Frances E. Willard
500
African Americans who lefttheir homes in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to establish new and freer lives in Kansa [the home of JohnBorn and the Free-Soil Campaigns of the 1850s.]
What is Exodusters