It's My Land and I Need It Now!
This belief refers to the idea and conquering new territory in North America is ordained by God
What is Manifest Destiny?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here, as Confederates refused to give up federal property.
What is Fort Sumter?
This agency offered food, clothes, money, clothing, services, contracts, schools and medical care for previously enslaved individuals.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The idea that residents of a territory should determine if slavery should be allowed.
What is popular sovereignty?
The case where the Supreme Court determined that African Americans and their descendents do not have constitutional rights, nor citizenship.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
This 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property
What is the Homestead Act?
Because of this man's raid on Harpers' Ferry, he died a martyr for the abolitionist cause in the North and a murderer in the South.
Who is John Brown?
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. Creates a cycle of poverty for the farmer. Common for African Americans in the South after the Civil War.
What is share cropping?
Series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery.
What is Bleeding (or Bloody) Kansas?
Argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.
What is the Frontier Thesis?
This document ended the Mexican-American War and guaranteed the Texas border at the Rio Grande, and Mexican Cession of most of the western states.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)?
The plan of William T. Sherman to surround the Confederacy and choke out its resources
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Previously admitted former Confederate states placed under U.S. Army control in military districts. Register all eligible voters, including whites and free/freed blacks. Call new state constitutional conventions. Must ratify Fourteenth Amendment.
Created 160-acre plots of land from tribal territory, designed to encourage farming among natives. Only those natives who purchased could become citizens.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act (1887)?
This case legalized segregation after the Supreme Court ruled an African American man had no right to ride in a white train car, so long as there was a "separate but equal" black train car.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
A group of agrarian organizations that worked to increase the political and economic power of farmers. They opposed corrupt business practices and monopolies, and supported relief for debtors.
What is the Garanger Movement?
The Emancipation Proclamation was a strategic push by Abraham Lincoln to do what? And who did it ignore?
What is free slaves in the Confederacy, who are slaves in the border states?
Pardons for loyalty oath. No pardons for Confederate leaders and owned $20,000 taxable property. Admitted Confederate states with appointed governors who established voting procedures for state legislatures. States must abolish slavery and secession clauses from state constitutions
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
List two points of the Compromise of 1850.
California annexed as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
The last effort of Native Americans to resist US domination and drive whites from their ancestral lands, came through as a religious movement.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
A battle cry for those who fought for the Oregon Territory in 1846, under President James K. Polk.
What is "54 40 or fight!"
These two battles turned the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union.
What are Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This shady deal allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president with Congressional support in his tied race against Samuel Tilden if he: removed federal troops from the South. Helped develop infrastructure in South, ex. Railroads. Appointed a Southerner to Cabinet, and limited enforcement of racial equality.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
At the Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. While attempting to disarm the Sioux, a shot was fired and a scuffle ensued. The US army soldiers opened fire on the Sioux, indiscriminately massacring hundreds of men, women, and children. The few Sioux survivors of the battle fled.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?