From back of chapters 1-30 in Kaplan AP US History 2010
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| 6097741923 | peculiar institution | ..., southern euphemism for slavery | 0 | |
| 6097741924 | John C. Calhoun | ..., South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights, limited government, and nullification | 1 | |
| 6097741925 | Harriet Tubman | ..., United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913) | 2 | |
| 6097741926 | Sojourner Truth | ..., United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) | 3 | |
| 6097741927 | Fredrick Douglas | ..., former slave + abolitionist, stood up for his beliefs, fought for womens + blacks rights, runaway slave, newspaper-the north star | 4 | |
| 6097741928 | Sarah and Angelina Grimke | ..., Quaker sisters from South Carolina who came north and became active in the abolitionist movement; Angelina married Theodore Weld, a leading abolitionist and Sarah wrote and lectured on a variety of reforms including women's rights and abolition. | 5 | |
| 6097741929 | Nat Turner's Rebellion | ..., Rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves through Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families | 6 | |
| 6097741930 | Declaration of Sentiments | ..., declared that all "people are created equal"; used the Declaration of Independence to argue for women's rights | 7 | |
| 6097741931 | Underground Railroad | ..., abolitionists secret aid to escaping slaves | 8 | |
| 6097741932 | James K. Polk | ..., president in March 1845. wanted to settle oregon boundary dispute with britain. wanted to aquire California. wanted to incorperate Texas into union. | 9 | |
| 6097741933 | Wilmot Proviso | ..., Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico | 10 | |
| 6097741934 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ..., Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million | 11 | |
| 6097741935 | Oregon Trail | ..., pioneer trail that began in missouri and crossed the great plains into the oregon country | 12 | |
| 6097741936 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ..., United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896) | 13 | |
| 6097741937 | John Brown | ..., abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) | 14 | |
| 6097741938 | apologists | ..., Christian thinkers who defended slavery and explained its "positive good" through Christian beliefs | 15 | |
| 6097741939 | Free-soil party | ..., Formed in 1847 - 1848, dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory. | 16 | |
| 6097741940 | 49ers | ..., People who rushed to california in 1849 for gold. | 17 | |
| 6097741941 | Republican Party | ..., the younger of two major political parties in the United States | 18 | |
| 6097741942 | Confederate States of America | ..., a republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States | 19 | |
| 6097741943 | Gadsden Purchase | ..., purchase of land from mexico in 1853 that established the present U.S.-mexico boundary | 20 | |
| 6097741944 | Fugitive Slave Law | ..., Enacted by Congress in 1793 and 1850, these laws provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners. The North was lax about enforcing the 1793 law, with irritated the South no end. The 1850 law was tougher and was aimed at eliminating the underground railroad. | 21 | |
| 6097741945 | The Compromise of 1850 | ..., Slavery becomes outlawed in Washington D.C., California is admitted as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico will determine whether slavery is allowed through popular sovereignty. Also, the Fugitive Slave Law is passed. | 22 | |
| 6097741946 | The Kansas-Nebraska Act | ..., 1854; sponsored by Senator Stephen Douglas, this would rip open the slavery debate; and create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. | 23 | |
| 6097741947 | Dred Scott v. Sanford | ..., Supreme Court case that decided US Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in federal territories and slaves, as private property, could not be taken away without due process - basically slaves would remain slaves in non-slave states and slaves could not sue because they were not citizens | 24 | |
| 6097741948 | Bleeding Kansas | ..., 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. | 25 | |
| 6097741949 | Harper's Ferry | ..., John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged | 26 | |
| 6097741950 | popular sovereignty | ..., The doctrine that stated that the people of a territory had the right to decide their own laws by voting. In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty would decide whether a territory allowed slavery. | 27 | |
| 6097741951 | Robert E. Lee | ..., Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force | 28 | |
| 6097741952 | Ulysses S. Grant | ..., an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. | 29 | |
| 6097741953 | Abraham Lincoln | ..., 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) | 30 | |
| 6097741954 | John Wilkes Booth | ..., was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. | 31 | |
| 6097741955 | Copperheads | ..., northern democrat who advocated making peace with the Confederacy during the Civil War | 32 | |
| 6097741956 | New York Draft Riots | ..., July 1863 just after the Battle at Gettysburg. Mobs of Irish working-class men and women roamed the streets for four days until federal troops suppressed them. They loathed the idea of being drafted to fight a war on behalf of slaves who, once freed, would compete with them for jobs. | 33 | |
| 6097741957 | Antietam | ..., the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost 23,000 casualties. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation | 34 | |
| 6097741958 | Gettysburg | ..., a small town in southern Pennsylvania, The most violent battle of the American Civil War and is frequently cited as the war's turning point, fought from July 1 - July 3, 1863. | 35 | |
| 6097741959 | Anaconda Plan | ..., Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south | 36 | |
| 6097741960 | Emancipation Proclamation | ..., Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free | 37 | |
| 6097741961 | Thirteenth Amendment | ..., The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude. | 38 | |
| 6097741962 | The Homestead Act of 1862 | ..., provided a settler with 160 acres of land if he promised to live and work for it at least five years, about 500,000 families took advantage of it | 39 | |
| 6097741963 | The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 | ..., This act apporved the building of a transcontinental railroad that would utterly transform the West by linking the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific | 40 | |
| 6097741964 | writ of habeas corpus | ..., court order that the authorities show cause for why they are holding a prisoner in custody. Deters unlawful imprisonment | 41 | |
| 6097741965 | Freedmen's Bureau | ..., 1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs | 42 | |
| 6097741966 | carpetbaggers | ..., northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction | 43 | |
| 6097741967 | ku klux klan | ..., a secret society of white Southerners in the United States | 44 | |
| 6097741968 | redeemers | ..., Largely former slave owners who were the bitterest opponents of the Republican program in the South. Staged a major counterrevolution to "redeem" the south by taking back southern state governments. Their foundation rested on the idea of racism and white supremacy. Redeemer governments waged and agressive assault on African Americans. | 45 | |
| 6097741969 | reconstruction | ..., the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union | 46 | |
| 6097741970 | proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction | ..., (Dec. 1863) issued by Lincoln: offered full pardon to Southerners who would take oath of allegiance to the Union and acknowledge emancipation | 47 | |
| 6097741971 | wade-davis bill | opposed 10% plan and called for more that 50% | 48 | |
| 6097741972 | 10 percent plan | ..., It was a reconstruction plan that decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the union when 10 percent of voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the United States and pledged to abide by emancipation. The next step would be erection of a state gov. and then purified regime. (Lincoln) | 49 | |
| 6097741973 | civil rights bill of 1866 | ..., first congressional attempt to guarantee black rights in the south, passed over johnson's veto | 50 | |
| 6097741974 | fourteenth amendment | ..., made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country | 51 | |
| 6097741975 | military reconstruction act | ..., It divided the South into five military districts that were commanded by Union generals. It was passed in 1867. It ripped the power away from the president to be commander in chief and set up a system of Martial Law | 52 | |
| 6097741976 | tenure of office act | ..., 1866 - enacted by radical congress - forbade president from removing civil officers without senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson from removing a radical republican from his cabinet | 53 | |
| 6097741977 | fifteenth amendment | ..., The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. | 54 | |
| 6097741978 | force acts | ..., the government banned the use of terror, force or bribery to prevent someone from voting because of their race. Other laws banned the KKK entirely and brought forth military help to enforce these laws. | 55 | |
| 6097741979 | the compromise of 1877 | ..., It withdrew federal soldiers from their remaining position in the South, enacted federal legislation that would spur industrialization in the South, appointed Democrats to patronage positions in the south, and appointed a Democrat to the president's cabinet. | 56 | |
| 6097741980 | black codes | ..., Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves | 57 | |
| 6097741981 | sharecroppers | ..., people who rent a plot of land from another person, and farm it in exchange for a share of the crop | 58 |
