Antebellum
Maine joined the Union as a free state while Missouri was allowed as a slave state
What was the Missouri Compromise (1820 Comrpomise)
The election of this Republican President in 1860 was the catalyst for the Civil War, the war among the states.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment freed all of the slaves.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Chemical process used to change pig iron to strong, flexible steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
Name given to sensational reporting promoting the use of war against Spain in the late 1890s
What is yellow journalism?
California was allowed in as a free state in 1850, Texas was a slave state and the Fugitive Slave Act was passed
What was the 1850 Compromise
The Union strategic plan to strangle the South blockading all of their ports
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This amendment gave former slaves, who were now, citizens, the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
The political system where citizens elect their representative government
What is democracy? or what is a republic?
Using a nation's economic resources to influence other countries.
What is dollar diplomacy?
This word is the union of two words in Latin meaning Before the War
What is antebellum?
The bloodiest one day battle in the history of the Civil War
What was Antietam?
Derogatory term used to call a Southerner who helped the Union occupation
What is a Scalawag?
This man was the banker for most of the industrialist of the time period like Rockefeller, fFord, and Carnegie.
Who was J.P. Morgan?
The U.S would use the Great White Naval Fleet to influence other nations
What is gun boat diploamcy>
The Kansas-Nebraska terrotories were split, with Nebraska joined free of slaves and Kansas became a slave state
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
This law freed all of the Southern slaves already liberated by the Union but not the Northern slaves
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
These representatives in Congress wanted the Southern states and rebel soldiers to pay for their crime of rebellion
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The economic system based on the profit motive and private ownership of businesses and property
What is capitalism?
The the of military power in order to enforce the Monroe Doctrine
What was was the Roosevelt Corollary?
This treaty ended the Mexican American War of 1846. Mexico lost what is now California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and part of Colorado, Kansas
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This battle changed the direction of the war in favor of the North. The South would never recoved from it
What was Gettysburg?
This President was accused of sympathizing with the Souterhn states and was impeached by Congress but not convicted by the Senate.
Who was President Andrew Johnson?
Concept based on religion where the corporations donate part of their profits to charities or give back to the community
What is Social Gospel?
Originally part of Colombia, we created it with the help of the US navy. This nation allowed us to build a canal there
What is Panama?