U.S History: Civil War

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  1. 2. Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million
  2. 5. This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.
  3. 14. Lincoln urged Americans not to seek revenge on slaveholders and their supporters and military after the war. Instead, he urged reconstruction of the South "with malice toward none; with charity for all."
  4. 15. The 11th U.S. President, he led the country during the Mexican War and sought to expand the United States
  5. 16. laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit african american workers
  6. 18. Abolished slavery
  7. 20. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
  8. 22. Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
  9. 23. Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico
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  1. 1. the belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority, belief that because the states created the United States, individual states have the power to nullify federal laws
  2. 3. Southwestern territory acquired by the Pierce administration to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad and completed the lower 48 States
  3. 4. federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South
  4. 6. stronger navy, larger population, more industrial output and a network of railroads, more food, more $$$, more telegraphs, more factories
  5. 7. Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river; as long as Hayes became the president
  6. 8. War 1846 - 1848 - President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas. At the end, American ended up with 55% of Mexico's land.
  7. 9. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
  8. 10. a system used on southern farms after the civil war in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
  9. 11. a white Southerner who joined the Republican party during the Reconstruction period. they were also considered traitors to the Southern cause. Part of the radical government, they passed much needed reforms.
  10. 12. Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
  11. 13. Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction. They carried their belongings in carpetbags, and most intended to settle in the South and make money there. Part of the radical government, they passed much needed reforms.
  12. 17. A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
  13. 19. The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.
  14. 21. violent abolitionist who murdered slaveholders in Kansas and Missouri (1856-1858) before his raid at Harpers Ferry (1859), hoping to incite a slave rebellion; he failed and was executed, but his martyrdom by northern abolitionists frightened the South.