Territory
Treaty that gave America its current southwest region, including the states of California, Nevada, and Utah
What was the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo?
A shifting group of republican Congressmen; usually a substansitial minority, who favored the abolistion of slavery from the beginning of the Civil War and they later advocated the harsh treatment of the South.
What are Radical Republicans?
President that ended slavery
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The civil war started at this location
What was Fort Sumter?
A group that was organized after the Civil war to initiate white supremacy.
What is the KKK?
Admitted California as a state in exchange for the Fugitive Slave Act and territorial governments for Utah and Arizona. Also settled Texas borders.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Laws and beliefs passed to promote segregation and restrict of African Americans in the South
What are Jim Crow Laws?
He was the military leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, which was the most successful Southern army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This Civil War battle where the Union was so confident of a victory that soldiers were accompanied by journalists, politicians, and even simple sightseers, but the Union lost this battle leaving them in a state of shock
What was the Battle of Bull Run?
Period after the Civil War during which Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the Union
What is reconstruction?
Purchase of the lower parts of California, Arizona, and New Mexico and settled border disputes post-Mexican American War
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
He was elected President after his role in the Mexican-American War
Who is Zachary Taylor?
Was the attempt by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to coerce Great Britain and France to support the Confederate war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against Britain and the rest of Europe
What was "cotton diplomacy"?
Mass migration of Americans and others to California in search of gold
What is the Gold Rush?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Allowed Slave owners to enter the Northern states to catch escaped slaves and return them back to the south
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
He was the Union's supreme general during the American Civil War, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy in 1865, also later became president
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March to July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater.
What was the Peninsular Campaign?
A system by which cowboys herded cattle hundreds of miles
What is long drive?
The conflict arising from differences in culture between the North and South regions of the US
What is succession/sectionalism?
Withdrew federal troops from the South in exchange for a Democratic leader in the cabinet
What was the Compromise of 1877?
He was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, also was president during the compromise of 1850
Who is Millard Fillmore?
As part of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln gave his support for the first time to this first group of 100% African American soldiers
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Ritual dance and cultural movement that developed among Western American Indians
What was the Ghost Dance?