American History Unit 2 Vocab

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  1. 5. a historic town in West Virginia known for John Brown's raid in 1859, which aimed to incite a slave rebellion by seizing the federal armory.
  2. 7. 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  3. 8. an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management.
  4. 9. an act of one country seizing land that belongs to another country.
  5. 10. used to refer to the antiwar/peace wing of the Democratic Party.
  6. 14. established that voters in a territory could decide whether to have slavery or not by passing laws favorable or unfavorable to it.
  7. 18. a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
  8. 22. an agreement between the United States and Mexico in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
  9. 23. a group of politicians who formed a faction within the Republican party that lasted from the Civil War into the era of Reconstruction.
  10. 24. voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States.
  11. 25. the turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate southern states from the Confederacy to the Union.
  12. 26. 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.
  13. 27. a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 following the election of President Abraham Lincoln.
  14. 28. ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
  15. 29. granted by state constitution or state statute and allocates some autonomy to a local government, if the local government accepts certain conditions.
  16. 30. an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.
Down
  1. 1. a lenient plan, based on Lincoln's earlier 10% plan, to allow the Southern states to begin holding elections and sending representatives back to Washington.
  2. 2. gave African American men in the South the right to vote three years before ratification of the 15th Amendment.
  3. 3. the first full-scale battle of the Civil War.
  4. 4. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
  5. 6. a strategy implemented by President Abraham Lincoln aimed at reintegrating the Southern states back into the Union.
  6. 11. an edict issued by US President Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves of the Confederate states.
  7. 12. a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.
  8. 13. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished.
  9. 15. 1,300-mile (2,100 km) route from Illinois to Utah on which Mormon pioneers traveled from 1846 to 1869.
  10. 16. a slur to insult white Southern Republicans whom they considered traitors to the South.
  11. 17. a US government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (ie, former enslaved people) in the South.
  12. 19. five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States.
  13. 20. the first naval combat between ironclad warships, fought at Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the American Civil War.
  14. 21. describes how the United States became a modern market-based economy.