American Vision History final chapters 10-16 Flashcards

2606535432	popular sovereignty	people's right to decide what government they want	0
2606539603	forty niners	people who went to California for the Gold Rush	1
2606541593	secession	withdraw from the Union	2
2606543307	Uncle Tom's Cabin	a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe	3
2606546867	Harriet Beecher Stowe	wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin	4
2606548500	Harriet Tubman	leader and founder of the underground Railroad	5
2606554341	Gadsden Purchase	completed Continental United States	6
2606555790	Bleeding Kansas	violence between proslavery and Anti-slavery in Kansas	7
2606561287	John Brown	wanted to start slave revolt	8
2606561288	Jefferson Davis	senator of MS/ president of the confederacy	9
2606563505	Fort Sumter	first battle of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina	10
2606567104	South Carolina	first state to secede from the Union	11
2606571872	MS, GA, LA, AL, TX	Name 5 states that surround the gulf of mexico	12
2606573271	Robert Lee	leader of the confederate forces in the east	13
2606574741	US Grant	leader of the union forces in the west	14
2606576170	Copperheads	Peace Democrats	15
2606577233	Minie Ball	pointed projectile that spins	16
2606578883	Anaconda Plan	Union war strategy	17
2606581765	Thomas Jackson	Stonewall/ Bull Run	18
2606583226	Shiloh	Hornet's Nest	19
2606584704	Vicksburg	turning point of the war in the east	20
2606585959	Gettysburg	turning point of the war in the west	21
2606587890	Antietam	Bloodiest battle	22
2606589511	Andersonville	prison camp in Georgia	23
2606593266	Emancipation Proclamation	issued after Antietam by Abe	24
2606597002	Clara Barton	founder of Red Cross and was a war nurse	25
2606599581	Chickamauga	South's last victory	26
2606601045	Pickett's Charge	charge at gettysburg trying to take Cemetery Ridge/ 6,000 men died	27
2606605133	William Sherman	practiced total war in Georgia	28
2606607738	John Wilkes Booth	Abraham Lincoln's assassin	29
2606610555	Reconstruction	rebuilding of the South	30
2606612129	13th amendment	outlawed slavery	31
2606613632	14th amendment	citizenship	32
2606613744	15th amendment	right to vote	33
2606616227	carpetbagger	northerners that came to the south in Reconstruction	34
2606623343	Scalawags	white southerners who supported the Republican Reconstruction	35
2606625717	Share Croppers	farming on someone else's land	36
2606628840	Tenant Farmers	pay for rent but not with Crops	37
2606630933	Comstock Lode	Silver was found	38
2606632310	Quartz mining	deep	39
2606633506	Placer mining	surface	40
2606635446	goodnight loving trail, western trail, and the Chisholm trail	Name three trails	41
2606636661	Chisholm Trail	most famous cattle trail	42
2606648092	open range	western grassland owned by the government	43
2606650221	Homestead Act	$10 fee 160 acres of land if you lived on it for 5 years	44
2606653212	Sodbusters	farmers on the great plain	45
2606655450	Frontier	where civilization and forest met	46
2606656833	Wounded Knee	last battle of the Indian War in South Dakota	47
2606659324	Custer	killed at little big horn	48
2606660458	Little Big Horn	in Wyoming	49
2606661480	Sitting Bull	chief of the Lakota Sioux involved in Little Big Horn	50
2606665741	Alexander Graham Bell	inventor of the telephone	51
2606666803	Thomas Alva Edison	inventor of the electric light bulb	52
2606668890	Pacific Railway Act	approved the Transcontinental	53
2606670766	Leeland Stanford	one of the big four	54
2606673100	Ted Judah	dreamed of the railroad	55
2606674822	Central Pacific	started in Sacramento	56
2606674993	Union Pacific	started in Omaha	57
2606677661	James J. Hill	developed the Great Northern Railroad	58
2606679160	Credit Mobilier	a scandal	59
2606680612	Vertical Integration	owned everything you need	60
2606683093	Horizontal Integration	own a business and buy up all the companies and combine them with yours	61
2606686115	Andrew Carnegie	founded Carnegie Steel	62
2606688306	Knights of Labor	first nationwide Trade union	63
2606689697	steerage	cheapest passage on a ship	64
2606691572	Ellis Island	place immigrants from (E)urope had to pass through	65
2606696559	Angel Island	place immigrants from (A)sia had to pass through	66
2606698087	Nativism	dislike of immigrants	67
2606699584	tenements	run down apartment buildings	68
2606701013	Boss Tweed	political boss that was Head of Tammany Hall	69
2606702882	Jacob Riis	wrote How the other Half Lives	70
2606705783	Tammany Hall	political machine in NY	71
2606708481	Gospel of Wealth	idea that wealthy should share wealth with others	72
2606710529	individualism	no matter the circumstances you can be what you what to be	73
2606712269	naturalism	people could not control their situation	74
2606714434	muckrakers	uncovers bad things in society	75
2606716074	Gilded Age	first used by Mark Twain	76
2606716976	Booker T. Washington	founded Tuskegee institute	77
2606719905	Pendleton Act	civil service commissions	78
2606721257	McKinley Tariff	changed economy from economy that had a budget to budget deficiency	79
2606726579	Sherman's Anti-Trust Act	first trust act passed in the US	80
2606728137	ICC	regulates interstate commerce	81
2606729378	Exodusters	African Americans who moved from the south to Kansas	82
2606731751	Jim Crow Laws	act that kept African Americans from having money	83
2606734929	The Grange	first organization of farmers in America	84
2606736249	Spoils System	system in which politicians gave jobs to the people who supported them	85

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