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| 20339320 | Seward's Folly | Act pushed through congress to buy Alaska, a place which many people thought was worthless | 0 | |
| 20339321 | Zimmerman Note | Note from Germany to Mexico promising reclaimation of lands and money if Mexico helped Germany fight U.S. | 1 | |
| 20371771 | Popular Sovereignty | stated that the sovereign people of a territory should determine for themselves the status of slavery | 2 | |
| 20371772 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Series of debates for the senate seat where Douglas argued for popular sovereignty; which Douglas won. Skyrocketed Lincoln's popularity to the national spotlight. | 3 | |
| 20373584 | Crittenden Compromise | Proposal meant to appease the South; slavery was guaranteed full rights in the southern territories regardless of popular sovereigny; Lincoln refused the porposal | 4 | |
| 20373585 | British/American Border disputes | Included the argument over the border of Oregon; the Aroostook War concerning the border of Maine/Canada; the Caroline incident | 5 | |
| 20417497 | King Cotton (Pre-Civial War) | Phrase used by southerner to emphasize the importance of the crop to the southern economy. Southern Pantations produced 3/4s of the worlds cotton. Led to the false belief that Europe would intervene in favor of the south because of dependence on cotton. | 6 | |
| 20418315 | Bleeding Kansas | Under popular sovereignty, southerner thought that there was an unspoked agreement for Kansas to be slave and Nebraska Free, but when abolitionist groups started sending free soilers into the territory, tensions rose, and settlers started fueding over land claims, wich then turned to almost a mini civial war | 7 | |
| 20418435 | Popular Sovereignty | The doctrine that stated that the dominant population of a territory, under general principles of the Constitution, should themselves determine the status of slavery. | 8 | |
| 20418436 | Nativism | The mindset to protect (sometimes violently)traditionaly american tradition against influence by immigrants. "America fer Americans" Anti-Catholic, german, irish, eastern and souther european, spanish, etc. White protestant workers felt threatened; traditional customs or ways of thinking threatened. Know-Nothing-Party | 9 | |
| 20420116 | Crittenden Compromise | Proposed amendments to the constitution designed to appease the South after secession. Proposed that slavery banned north of 36/30 and federal protection in all territories existinf or hereafter south of the line. Future states could come in with or without slavery. Was Flatly rejected by Lincoln. | 10 | |
| 20420117 | Mexican-American War | After the annexation of texas, Mexico ruled texas as just a territory in revolt and refused to recognize secession and military victory. Under terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, California and New Mexico were ceded to the US, Rio Grande boundary between Mexico and Texas. | 11 | |
| 20420118 | Maifest Destiny | Belief that Us was destined to expand across North America. Used to justify territorial conquests(oregon, texas), genocides of NA's. | 12 | |
| 20420119 | Wilmot Proviso | Proposed that slavery should never exist in territory taken from Mexico. Fought by Southerners. | 13 | |
| 20420120 | secession/border states | With the inauguration of Lincoln, South Carolina Seceeded, followed by six other states. Eight border states teetered on the edge, promising an increase in man, maufacturing, and transportation power to the ally. | 14 | |
| 20420585 | Foreign Relations During Civil War | The general population of europe was pro-north on the aspect of emancipation (Uncle Tom's Cabin), but the aristocracy was pro-south and pro-king-cotton. | 15 | |
| 20420586 | advantages of the North | Population, undistry, money, resources, transportation, Lincoln. | 16 | |
| 20420587 | advantages of the South | Defensive war, geography, generals | 17 | |
| 20420588 | 13th amendment | Abolition of Slavery | 18 | |
| 20420589 | 14th Amendment | citizenship granted regardless of race of ethnicity | 19 | |
| 20420590 | 15th Amendment | right t ovote regardless of race or ethnicity (not to women though) | 20 | |
| 20420591 | 16th Amendment | gave congress authority to issue an income tax | 21 | |
| 20420592 | 17th Amendment | provides direct election of senators | 22 | |
| 20420593 | 18th Amendment | established prohibition | 23 | |
| 20420594 | 19th Amendment | right to vote for women | 24 | |
| 20420595 | Freedmen Bureau | Initiated by Lincoln to aid freed slaves with education, health care, and employment; became a key agency during reconstruction. Disbanded by Andrew Johnson. | 25 | |
| 20420596 | KKK | First founded by confederate veterans to restore white supremacy during reconstruction. Oppressed AA's, Jews, Romans Catholics, labor unions... | 26 | |
| 20420597 | Black Codes | Most commonly associated with Southern legislation to limit the civial rights and liberties of African Americans; second class citizenship, control. Began in reaction to the abolition of slavery and southern defeat. | 27 | |
| 20420598 | Jim Crow Laws | Mandated segregation and "separate but equal" status | 28 | |
| 20421820 | Scalawags | Southerners (ofter Unionists and whigs) that were accused of using their political influence to get to the southern treasury | 29 | |
| 20421821 | carpetbaggers | supposedly sleazy northerners who put all their belingings into a carpetbag suitcase after the war had ended and came to the south for personal power and profit. | 30 | |
| 20421822 | Johnson's Impeachment | After the tenure of Office Act (required president to have consent of Senate before removing and appointee once approved by the senate), Johnson dismissed Stanton w/o consent of the senate and the House charged him with treason. By a margin of one vote, Johnson was not convicted. | 31 | |
| 20421823 | Wade-Davis Bill | Republican Reconstruction; required 50% of a state's voters take oath of allegiance; demanded stronger safeguard for emancipation. Pocket-vetoed by Lincoln. | 32 | |
| 20421824 | Transcontinental Railroad | Building was costly and risky at first, then gov gave land grants for the railroad. The railroad increased land value; towns competed to be host. Merge of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific | 33 | |
| 20421825 | Spoils System | Rewarding loyal party members with political positions regardless of merit or qualification. | 34 | |
| 20421826 | Pendleton Act | placed federal employees on a merit system and marked the end of the spoils system; Chester A. Arthur | 35 | |
| 20421827 | gilded Age | Post civicl-war adn reconstruction, a booming of american population and wealth; rising of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan; growth of the labor union movement, creation of modern economy; increased racism, and much corruptoin. | 36 | |
| 20421828 | compromise of 1877 | Unwritten deal where Rutherford Hayes was awarded the presidency over Samuel Tiden on the agreement that there would be a complete withdrawal of federal troops from the south. | 37 | |
| 20421829 | Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of recial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. | 38 | |
| 20421830 | Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882: barred nearly all chinese from the US for six decades | 39 | |
| 20421831 | Social Darwinism | Used by upperclass and "robber barons" to justify their harsh treatment of lower classes. "Survival of the fittest, I'm the best and I deserve all this money... I can treat my workers like crap and there is nothing you can do about it... na na na na na..." | 40 | |
| 20421832 | Sherman Anti-trust Act | forbade combinatoins in restraint of trade without distinction between "good" or "bad" trusts or monopolies. | 41 | |
| 20421833 | hull House | Created by Jane Adams, the most prominent American settlement house.; offered social services targeted towards teh urban poor: food, shelter, basic education.Known for its social educational, and srtistic programs. | 42 | |
| 20421834 | yellow press | type of journalism that downplays legitimate news in favor of more eye-catching stories. Scandals; exaggerations, deciet. Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal" | 43 | |
| 20421835 | The Shame of the Cities | Lincoln Steffens; exposed the corrupt alliance of the governments and the big businesses | 44 | |
| 20421836 | Ida M. Tarbell | Wrote a deastating and tactual expose of the Standard Oil Company | 45 | |
| 20421837 | Pullman Strike | Pullman Palace Car Co. cut wages by a third, workers struck led by Eugene v. Debs. Federal troops were dispatched on grounds that the strikers were interfering with the transit of US mail. | 46 |
