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Vocab
100
This was the official name for the pre-civil war period.
What was The Antebellum Period?
100
This battle took place in VA on July 21, 1861 where the south took the victory.
What was The first Battle of Bull Run?
100
The proper name of the post civil war period.
What was The Reconstruction period?
100
This bargain was made by President Thomas Jefferson that almost doubled the size of the United States.
What was The Louisiana Purchase?
100
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
200
This battle took place in PA on July 1-3, 1863 and Abraham Lincoln named a famous speech after this place.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
Lincoln's reconstruction plan. Written in 1863, proclaimed reintegrated into the Union when 10% of its voters in the 1860 election pledged their allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation. His plan was very lenient to the South, would have meant an easy reconstruction.
What was the 10% plan?
200
This invention made it so that cattle would not leave a farmers land.
What is Barbed wire?
200
The term used to describe something that goes across a country/continent.
What is transcontinental?
300
How the Kansas and Nebraska territories decide on the issue of slavery.
What was Popular Sovereignty?
300
A union victory that was the bloodiest single day battle in the US history.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
300
Ended slavery
What was the 13th amendment?
300
This act was signed in by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830 and authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
300
The strip of land straight down the country that had the best soil and was most popular for growing wheat.
What was the Wheat Belt?
400
John Brow raided this ferry in Virginia.
What was Harper's Ferry?
400
Lincoln issued the freeing of slaves in areas that are rebelling against the union
What was The Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Granted right to vote to all men over age 20 regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Ratified 1870.
What was The 15th amendment?
400
In 1845, approximately 5,000 people traveled the Oregon Trail to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
What was The Oregon Trail.
400
To absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture.
What is to Assimilate?
500
Utah and New Mexico territories use popular sovereignty to decide if free or slave and stronger fugitive slave act are advantages to the south and California was admitted as a free state and the slave trade was abolished in the district of Columbia were the 2 advantages to the north.
What was The Compromise of 1850?
500
The president elected during the civil war and was assassinated in a theater by John Wilkes Booth.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
500
Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise to Remove federal troops from South to avoid Democrat law suit to Supreme Court, contested returns in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana. Republican Party abandons southern blacks.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
500
The people who came over to California in 1849 in search of the most popular place for gold up in Sacramento, during the Gold Rush.
Who were the 49'ers?
500
The action of becoming larger or more extensive.
What is Expansion?