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| California beceame a state, popular sovereignty, fugitive slave act- people in North had to send back runaway slaves |
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| Military reconstruction act of 1867 |
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| Divided South into military districts |
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| Everyone born or naturalized as a citizen has certain right |
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| General of Mexican Army, dictator |
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| Harsh treatment with the confederates |
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| short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities. American won rebellion |
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| Made Sure slaves got their rights, inflict pain on the South |
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| Massacre Pottawatomie creek, 1859,led to Civil War |
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| Person from the North who went to the South to try and get rich |
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| Preston Brooks beat him with a cane because he insulted a senator from the south |
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| Utopian community that practiced open marriage |
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| Republicans against slavery, Lincoln didn't want slavery to spread |
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| Rules that Whites in the South put on the blacks, very strict |
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| Southerners who help the North |
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| Voting rights cannot be denied because of your race |
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| everyone tried to get their money out, and banks did not have enough money |
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| Slave who assumed himself free when he was in a free state. Supreme Court ruled that you’re not free if you’re in a free state and the right to own slaves was protected by the Constitution. |
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| Where the war started, South Carolina, South shot first |
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| John Brown and abolitionists killed 5 pro-slavery people |
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| Fundamental difference between North and South |
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North- no slavery, industrialized, 21 million fighters
south- slavery, agriculture, 9 million fighters |
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| Union strategy- blockade southern ports, gain control of Mississippi River Valley and capture Richmond- Confederate capital |
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| General who replaced McDowell in the North |
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| Southern General. Held firm while being attacked (STONEWALL) |
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| Took Atlanta, Savannah with total war strategy |
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| Weaponry, cannons, and armored ships |
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| Gen. Grant, Gen. Sherman, and Gen. Sheridan led a siege to take control of the Mississippi and began moving East and attacking South |
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| Battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania when Gen. Lee tried to attack the North, Confederates and Union lost many soldiers however the Confederates retreated |
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| Gave Government power to tax |
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| Government tried to make a railroad across the USA, showed that the government was actively involved in American affairs. |
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| If a person lived on land in the West for five years, they can continue living on it free of charge. (In hope of moving people West) |
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| Government sold land in the West and created "Land Grant Universities" |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Freed all slaves in the Confederacy |
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| Radical racist movement who went around pillaging and murdering blacks |
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| For every slave state, a free state must be established |
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| Indian tribes living in Georgia were forced to move west of the Mississippi. 1/4 of Native Americans died. |
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| The Abolitionist Movement |
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| Prominent American abolitionist |
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| ex-slave, prominent American abolitionist |
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| Underground railroad which moved slaves from South to their freedom in the North |
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| U.S. has a divine destiny to fill up the land of America |
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| moved many families to Texas |
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| Texas revolution, Santa Anna launched an attack against the revolutionists, Mexico won |
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| Lone Star Republic returned to the United States in 1845 |
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| Many moved west in hopes of riches with the discovery of gold |
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| Fought in American-Mexican war, ran for President against Lincoln but lost |
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| Protestant religious sect |
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| Protestant religious sect |
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| practiced multiple marriages |
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| American abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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