Mex. Amer. War
A group of rebellions from Sonoma that declared that California was an independent republic in 1846. To represent this new nation, the rebels created a flag with a single star and a grizzly bear
Bear Flag Revolt
a Union victory in this battle marked the last time Confederate forces attempted a major invasion of the North
Gettysburg
The war officially ended with February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo
A secret system that helped slaves run away to the North for freedom
Underground Railroad
17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as Vice President when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote.
Andrew Johnson
Political opportunist and general who served as president of Mexico eleven different times and commanded the Mexican army during the Texas Revolution in the 1830s and the war with the United States in the 1840s.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories in which slavery issues would be determined by popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
is a 2,200-mile historic east-west large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
Oregon Trail
Northerners must return runaway slaves to the South, passed in 1850, the law angered many Northerners
Fugitive Slave Law
1865- Organization created at end of Civil War that aided southern (mainly former slaves) with education, finding food, shelter, and employment.
Freedmen's Bureau
$10 million purchase of land from Mexico - omitted from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This strip - south of the Gila River, includes the route of the Southern Pacific railroad
Gadsen Purchase
author of the Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay
was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Santa Fe Trail
Violence broke out due to many in Kansas viewing the vote on slavery as unfair. They felt the vote was unfair since people crossed the border into Kansas to cast their votes.
Bleeding Kansas
A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
Ku Klux Klan
1846, PA Congressman David Wilmot proposed that a bill be amended to forbid slavery in any of the new territories taken from Mexico; passed House twice but failed to pass Senate
Wilmot Proviso
Supreme Court ruling that denied that African Americans had rights as citizens
Dred Scott
was a place in Texas where there was a battle between a small group of U.S. soldiers and a large Mexican army. The U.S. soldiers were all killed, but their brave efforts are still remembered.
Alamo
Wrote a narrative about his life as a slave, he was an abolitionist, he escaped from slavery.
Fredrick Douglas
After the Civil War former landowners "rented" plots of land to blacks and poor whites in such a way that the renters were always in debt and therefore tied to the land.
Sharecropping
This treaty was signed ending the war
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
the first battle between two ironclads
Monitor v. Merrimack
is a purchase 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853. It was then ratified, with changes, by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 1854, and signed by 14th President Franklin Pierce, with final approval action taken by Mexico's government and their General Congress or Congress of the Union on June 8, 1854. The purchase was the last territorial acquisition in the contiguous United States to add a large area to the country.
Gadsden Purchase
The amendment says that the government has only those powers specifically granted by the Constitution. If a power is not listed in the Constitution, then each state has the right to decide on an issue. Examples: slavery, fireworks, driving age
The 10th Amendment
The 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal. It established the idea of the "separate but equal" policy.
Plessy v Ferguson