The Jacksonian Era
The migration of the Cherokee from 1838-1839 to Indian Territory when thousands perished during the several month journey.
The Trail of Tears
The name given to the more than 80,000 people moved to California hoping to become rich during the Gold Rush.
Forty-Niners
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad who had returned to the South 19 times and escaped with more than 300 slaves.
Harriet Tubman
President Lincoln's decree that freed enslaved people in Confederate territory.
The Emancipation Proclamation
A notorious organization that worked to keep Republicans and African Americans out of office.
The Ku Klux Klan
The act that let the government take land from Native Americans in exchange for land west of the Mississippi. These tribes were moved to “Indian Territory,” in modern day Oklahoma.
The right of the United States to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
A radical abolitionist who believed that slaves could only be freed by violent revolt. He was involved in the Bleeding Kansas incident, and he raided the arsenal in the town of Harper’s Ferry in Virginia.
John Brown
One of the most decisive battles in the Civil War, it ended with Pickett’s Charge
The Battle of Gettysburg
How did the South continue to work against civil rights even after the three Reconstruction Amendments were passed?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
What two new parties emerged during the Jacksonian Era?
Democrats and Whigs
In 1853, the U.S. paid an additional $10 million for the southern strip of modern day Arizona and New Mexico, thereby completing the continental U.S.
The Gadsden Purchase
A new party that formed in the 1850s, its primary purpose was to stop the spread of slavery into the west, but there were many who wanted to abolish slavery altogether.
Republicans
Ulysses S. Grant offered Robert E. Lee terms of surrender, bringing the fighting of the Civil War near to a close.
Appomattox Courthouse
The derogatory names given to Southern Republicans and Northerners moving to the South during the Reconstruction.
"Scalawags" and "Carpetbaggers"
What battle made Andrew Jackson a national hero during the War of 1812?
The Battle of New Orleans
An American general during the Mexican-American War who captured Santa Fe, New Mexico and then marched on San Diego.
Stephen Kearny
She wrote the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which follows the life of a fictional enslaved African American, drawing northern sympathy for those who were enslaved in the south.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What were the three objectives the Union had for the Civil War?
1) blockade southern ports from trading with Europe,
2) capture Richmond, VA, the Confederate capital to capture the government,
3) capture the Mississippi River to cut off supplies.
The decision made by a special commission to elect Rutherford B. Hayes to the presidency on the condition that he end Reconstruction.
The Compromise of 1877
What was Jackson’s opinion of the Second Bank of the United States?
Jackson and the Democrats believed that the bank was too powerful, only benefited the rich, and therefore needed to be eliminated.
After the Mexican-American War, it required that Mexico cede, or give up, California and New Mexico for $15 million.
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
A former slave who published a newspaper that spread antislavery ideas across the country.
Frederick Douglas
The strategy that General Grant shifted to once he became general of all Union forces?
War of Attrition or Total War
The Supreme Court case that declared segregation was legal so long as everything was equal between whites and blacks, thereby supporting Jim Crow laws.
Plessy v. Ferguson