US History Unit 4 Glenn
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 manifest destiny | meaning obvious or undeniable fate/coined by O'Sullivan/destiny to overspread and take over the continent as Americans |
| James K. Polk | commited to expansion and manifest destiny/protege of Andrew Jackson/polk favors annexation of Texas/ |
| Mexican War | Military Disaster for Mexico/Lost Territory/Caused by Annexation of Texas |
| Gadsden Purchase | purchase by US of California and New Mexico |
| Treaty of Guadulupe Hidalgo | Mexico gives up new mexico and california territories/gives up texas/ |
| Thoreau | Leader in the Transcedentalist Movement/questioned churches/lived by himself in the woods |
| Z. Taylor | sent by polk in the mexican war with troops/setup at the Rio Grande |
| W. Scott | dispatched by taylor to take Mexico City |
| S. Kearny | ? |
| J. Fremont | moved into california under polk |
| Wilmot Proviso | Wilmot proposes that the new land gained from Mexico is to be slave free/ |
| popular sovereignty | mainly in the Kansas Nebraska act to repeal slavery in a certain area/the people make the decisions |
| Compromise of 1850 | gold rush called for law enforcement in the west/drafted a constitution to ban slaves/fugitive slave act- return escaped slaves |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | by Harriett Beecher Stowe/presented a vivid image of slavery to northern people who thought it was real |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Toms Cabin/Hated Slavery |
| Ostend Manifesto | wanted to buy cuba from spain/denied/wanted to gain more slaves in the Latin America Area |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | introduced popular sovereignty to decide on slavery |
| Butcher of Pottawattomie Creek | killing of 5 abolitionists in Kansas |
| Bleeding Kansas | looting of Lawrence and Browns brutal response at Pottawatomie sparked a summer of murderous raids and counterraids throughout kansas |
| Sumner and Brooks | Gives speech the crime against kansas/attacks southerners for forcing slavery on kansas/brooks-begins to defend honor of south/ brooks beats sumner with his cane/ |
| The Lecompton Constitution | constitution to get statehood made by Kansas |
| Free Soil Party | against expansion of slavery into western territory/whigs and democrats |
| Whigs | d |
| Republicans: Rise and Fall | d |
| Dred Scott Case | d |
| Chief Justice Roger Taney | d |
| Strict Constrictionist | d |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | d |
| Freeport Doctrine | d |
| House Divided | d |
| John Browns Raid | d |
| Hanged for Treason | d |
| John Browns Body | d |
| Election of 1860 | d |
| Fort Sumter | d |
| Comparative Strengths of Each side as the War Begins | d |
| War Strategies | d |
| Anaconda Plan | d |
| 1st Modern War | d |
| Total War | d |
| Technologies Used in Civil War | d |
| Matthew Brady | d |
| Border States | d |
| Martial Law | d |
| Habeas Corpus | d |
| Fremonts proclomation | d |
| Clara Barton | d |
| 1st Bull Run (Manassas Junction) | d |
| Shiloh | d |
| New Orleans | d |
| Antietam | d |
| Chancellorsville | d |
| Gettysburg | d |
| Vicksburg(4th of July) | d |
| Atlanta | d |
| Picketts Charge @ Gettysburg | d |
| Monitor Vs Merrimack | d |
| ironclad and tinclad gunboats | d |
| shermans march | d |
| The Burnt District | d |
| Andersonville | d |
| Capt. Henry Wirz | d |
| Jefferson Davis | d |
| R.E. Lee | d |
| Stonewall Jackson | d |
| Joseph Johnston | d |
| John Bell Hood | d |
| Jeb Stuart | d |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | d |
| Lincoln | d |
| Unconditional Surrender | d |
| Grant | d |
| Wm. Sherman | d |
| McClellan | d |
| Ambrose Burnside | d |
| Emancipation Proclomation | d |
| Gettysburg Address | d |
| NYC Draft Riots | d |
| July 1863 | d |
| Copperheads | d |
| Reconstruction! | d |
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