Foreign
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
What is the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The people decide for themselves on laws and regulations (in the context of slavery)
What is popular sovereignty?
The group of states secluding from the union
What is the Confederacy?
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
What is sharecropping?
The disputed border that launches the Mexican-American War
What is the Rio Grande?
Repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing the territories of __ and __ to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Provided food, shelter, education, and legal assistance to former enslaved people and poor whites in the South
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
President of the U.S. who declares war against Mexico
Who is President James K. Polk?
Supreme Court decision that ruled that African Americans were not US citizens and could not sue in federal court
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Place of the first battle that launches the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
Restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
What are Black Codes?
Purchase of land from Mexico in order to construct a southern transcontinental railroad
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The 4 main components of the Compromise of 1850
What is
1. Admission of California as a free state,
2. Amendment of the fugitive slave act,
3. Abolished slave trade in Washington DC, and
4. Established popular sovereignty in Utah & New Mexico?
The two turning points of the Civil War
What is Antietam & Vicksburg?
Southern Democrats seeking to restore white supremacy by overthrowing Republican rule
Who are the Redeemers?
Proposed amendment that would prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Prominent anti-slavery newspaper advocating for the immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves
What is The Liberator?
Runaway slave considered property of the Confederacy that were confiscated by the Union
What is a contraband?
Pre-Reconstruction allocation of land in South Carolina to prepare enslaved people for inclusion as free citizens
What is the Sea Island Experiment?