Vocabulary
An official release from Punishment for doing a crime.
A Pardon
Southern/Confederate state governments had to be replaced with people only loyal to the US and follow STRICT US laws and rules about everything. Sometimes this even hurt the the South. What was this time period called?
Reconstruction
What lead to the Civil War?
What were the Major issues?
Cause: The arguement of States Rights v Federal Government being more powerful.
Major Issues: Slavery, Tariffs, passing laws forcing the South to live like the North.
What were the 2 major causes for the Mexican American War?
1. The US needed to balanced the power between slave states and free states.
2. The idea of the God-Given right of Manifest Destiny. (The US HAD to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific)
To leave or withdraw
Sucession
A Coarse, loosely woven and homemade fabric
Homespun
Militarily took charge of Texas during reconstruction. Very strict and even harsh.
General Sheridan started
General Charles Griffin after him
A growing feeling of Americans where they didn't care about being American but they only cared about people that looked, thought, and acted like them?
Sectionalism.
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo included land that later became; California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Arizona and was traded to the US for 15$ Million. Was 1 million square miles of land.
Mexican Cession
A collection of states during the Civil War
Confederacy
A Person loyal to the Union
Unionist
Became the 18th president of the US and over saw much of the Reconstruction/Radical Reconstruction period
General Ulysses S Grant
Which states formed the confederacy?
11 states; South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virgina, Louisiana, and Texas.
The final purchase of land between the United States and Mexico.
Cost the US $10 Million.
Finalized the boundry between the US and Mexico.
Gadsen Purchase
The National Government
Federal
Forced Military enrollment
Conscription
An organization that used fear, violence and other intimidation tactics to try to take control and force their will onto others
Ku Klux Klan
What States formed the Union?
20 states; California, Oregon, Kansas, Minnisota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconson, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylviania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, MAine, NEw Hampshire, Kansas
Mexico Wanted the boundry to be the Nueces River.
The US and Texans wanted the boundry to be the Rio Grande.
Conflicting points of view that led to the Mexican American war.
Taxes imposed on imported products to influence you to buy products from your nation
Tariffs
Northeners who moved South with no more than they could carry in a carpet bag(Suitcase) or sacks.
Carpet Bagger
Declared all southern governments illegal.
Divided up the South into Districts.
Military rule.
Forced states to write amendments and change laws to allow African Americans to vote, and give a place in society.
Laws and rules imposed to force the South to make changes.
Radical Reconstruction period. 1865-1871
The Final battle of the Civil War was in Texas. Where was it specifically?
Palmito Ranch.
The US general was?
The Mexican General was?
Zachary Taylor.
Santa Anna.
A legal decision that gets rid of a previous decision