SPASH US History Sem 1 Final-Set 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Impressment | British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service |
| Missouri Compromise | An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union (United States) as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery north of 36 30. |
| Spoils System | Used to Jackson to give government positions to ones friends who helped get them elected. |
| War Hawks | Politicians who were eager to go to war against Great Britain. |
| Trail of Tears | Forced march of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma. |
| Francis Scott Key | American who wrote the Star Spangled Banner (the National Anthem) during the War of 1812 |
| California Gold Rush | People raced to Sutter's Mill in California in 1849 when gold was discovered. |
| Battle of New Orleans | Battle during the War of 1812. The battle made Andrew Jackson a hero. |
| War of 1812 | US war against Great Britain during the war the British burned Washington DC. The war gave Americans great sense of nationalism. |
| Indian Territory | Place where the Native Americans were forced to relocate. It is present day Oklahoma. |
| Abolitionists | People who wanted to end slavery. |
| Cotton | The most important cash crop in the South |
| Popular Sovereignty | People of a territory would vote to decide if they wanted to allow slavery in their territory. |
| Manifest Destiny | Belief that the US was intended to spread from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| Mormon Trail | Trail taken by the Mormons to Utah to gain religious freedom. |
| Oregon Trail | Trail taken by farmers to Oregon to gain the rich farmland |
| The Alamo | Mission in Texas where the Mexican Army defeated and killed 188 Americans in 1836 |
| Compromise of 1850 | Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War |
| Fugitive Slave Act | a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders |
| Underground Railroad | System where thousands of slaves were able to escape to Canada |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Nickname given to Kansas after violence erupted between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces |
| Union | The North, the United States, the blue, the Yankees, Billy Yank |
| Confederacy | The South, the Confederate States of American, the gray, the Rebels, Johnny Reb |
| Robert E. Lee | General for the South during the Civil War. A brilliant leader. |
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