AICE US History Review

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  1. 3. Land we won in the Mexican American War
  2. 4. authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Native Americans. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship.
  3. 5. was an agency of the United States Department of War to "direct such issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel, as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children."
  4. 11. Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Furthermore, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line.
  5. 13. laws passed by the United States Congress during the Civil War with the intention of freeing the slaves still held by the Confederate forces in the South.
  6. 14. attempt by Radical Republicans and others in the U.S. Congress to set Reconstruction policy before the end of the Civil War.
  7. 16. Signed into law in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln after the secession of southern states, this Act turned over vast amounts of the public domain to private citizens. 270 millions acres, or 10% of the area of the United States was claimed and settled under this act.
  8. 20. name of the region that was gained from the Treaty of Guadelope-Hildalgo
  9. 22. President from 1845-1849, avid expansionist, hope to acquire Mexico, California, and Oregon
  10. 23. a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
  11. 24. minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories. Fearful of expanding slave power within the national government, Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania in 1846 introduced into Congress his famous Wilmot Proviso, calling for the prohibition of slavery in the vast southwestern lands that had been newly acquired from Mexico.
  12. 25. This allowed us to purchase Alaska
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  1. 1. Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was the first African-American regiment organized in the northern states during the Civil War. Authorized by the Emancipation Proclamation, the regiment consisted of African-American enlisted men commanded by white officers.
  2. 2. passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
  3. 6. Peace Democrat, during the American Civil War, pejoratively, any citizen in the North who opposed the war policy and advocated restoration of the Union through a negotiated settlement with the South.
  4. 7. Paid Mexico $15 million dollars and established the Rio Grande River as the boarder
  5. 8. diplomatic crisis that took place between the United States and Great Britain from November to December 1861, during the U.S. Civil War (1861-65).
  6. 9. American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history’s first duel between ironclad warships
  7. 10. Belief we owned all the lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
  8. 12. offers pardon and restoration of property -- except slaves -- to Confederates who swear allegiance to the Union and agree to accept emancipation. Known as the 10 Percent Plan, it requires only 10% of a former Confederate state's voters to pledge the oath before the state can begin the process of readmission into the Union.
  9. 15. the action of a state impeding or attempting to prevent the operation and enforcement within its territory of a law of the U.S.
  10. 17. a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention.
  11. 18. American naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history’s first duel between ironclad warshipsinted provisional president of the Cnfederacy
  12. 19. A failed amendment to purchase Mexico
  13. 21. a member of the cavalry unit in which Theodore Roosevelt fought during the Spanish-American War.