Sectional Conflict
This nearly doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803
Louisiana Purchase
This Constitutional Amendment freed African Americans from slavery (except as a form of punishment)
The 13th Amendment
How do your describe the period of Reconstruction?
post-Civil War period where the U.S. tried to integrate millions of freedmen into the social, political, and labor systems
An act that was passed that allowed to forced removal of Native Americans
The Indian Removal Act
A Senator who was caned because he verbally condemned slave owning Senators
Senator Sumner
This act let the state exercise popular sovereignty in order to decide if it was a free or slave state, which caused Bleeding Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not seen as citizens
Dred Scott
What are ways southerners restricted African American voting rights? (Name two)
Poll taxes, literacy tests, property tests, grandfather clause, physical intimidation
"New" immigrants of the late 1800s
Came from southern and eastern Europe
This war gave the U.S. new territories, which heightened (increased) tensions over slavery
Mexican American War
The policy of popular sovereignty to apply to Missouri
Missouri Compromise
Constitutional amendment that gave African American the right to vote
15th Amendment
Post Civil War laws that kept African Americans as non-landholding laborers
Black Codes
An island off of CA where mainly Chinese and Japanese immigrants entered through
Angel Island
10% of a state's voters must take an oath of loyalty to the Union
Lincoln's 10% plan
This allowed CA to become a free state, Utah & NM to vote on slavery, and created the Fugitive Slaw Law
Compromise of 1850
People living in freed states were outraged by this law because now they had to legally return escaped slaves back to slavery
Fugitive Slave Law
This organization wanted to provide food, health care, education, and clothing to African Americans throughout the South
The Freedmen's Bureau
Congress passed this nativist law prohibiting Chinese workers from entering the U.S.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Reasons why Reconstruction failed
-President Hayes withdrew federal troops from the south
-regional interpretations
-rise of White Supremacy groups
A book that brought awareness to the cruelty of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This amendment allows for people born in America to automatically become citizens, overturning Dred Scott
14th Amendment
What did Hayes do that solidified the failure of Reconstruction?
Removed federal troops from the south
The government coined this term when discussing land and resource ownership between white Americans and Native Americans
The Indian Problem
An agricultural system where Black and white families rented out parts of a farm and paid rent through crops.
Sharecropping