Vocabulary
The idea that America was destined by God and by history to expand over continent of North America
President during era of Reconstruction, Democrat sympathizer, butts heads with Congress repeatedly
What is President Johnson
The immigrant group that came with money
What is German
A piece of legislation that offered the first constitutional definition of American citizenship, and what it defined citizens as.
The 14th Amendment; a citizen is everyone that is born in the US or is naturalized
A form of agriculture in which tenants worked sections of land and paid landlords a fixed rent or share of the crop.
What is Share Cropping
The leader of the Mexican Army that was captured in San Jacinto
What is Santa Anna?
The term used to describe anti immigrant sentiments
An act passed 1870 that prohibited states from discriminating against voters due to race and gave the federal government power to supersede state courts and prosecute violators of the law
What is the Enforcement Acts
Codes designed to oppress newly freed slaves
What is Black Codes
Led Harper's Ferry and Pottawatomie Massacre
What is John Brown?
Literary element was included In Charles Sumpter's discourse
What is Don Quixote
An act that placed obstacles in way of foreigners who wanted to become American citizens, strengthened president’s authority with immigrants
What is Alien Act
The name of the town where the Pottawamie Massacre occured
What is Lawrence?
President that succeeded Zachary Taylor, instrumental in the passing of the Compromise of 1850.
What is Millard Fillmore?
The year the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, and the 2 conditions detailed in the Act
What is 1882?
1. Banned Chinese emigration to US for 10 years
2. Barred Chinese in already in country from becoming naturalized citizens
The name of the railroad that employed 90% of the Chinese immigration workforce
What is the Central Pacific Railroad
The delegate sent to try to buy the territories of Mexico that President Polk wanted directly before war ensued.
What is John Slidel?
The three different divisions of the Democratic Party in the Election of 1860, and their candidates
What is the Southerners (John Breckinridge), Westerners (Stephen Douglass) and Conservative Former Whigs (John Bell)
What is 1852