History Final

• Americans thought they had the God given right
• to expand their superior civilization

mexico had become a dictatorship

Most successful empresario in Texas

it started because mexican troops crossed the rio grande and attacked american troops

• 1. mexico ceded new mexico and california
• 2. america paid 15 million dollars for the land
• 3. mexico acknowledged the rio grande as the border of texas

the issue of slavery would be decided in the territories through a popular vote by the residents

• 1. make california a free state
• 2. abolish the slave trade in D.C.
• 3. formation of territorial governments in the former mexican territory based on popular sovereignty
• 4. a strong fugitive slave act

• 1. northern states passed laws making it difficult to enforce fedral statutes
• 2. one state declared the fugitive slave act unconstitutional
• 3. mobs freed runaway slaves held by the authorites
• 4. citizens expressed dissatisfaction with the law

• 1. it would create two new federal territories
• 2. it repealed the anti-slavery provision of the missouri compromise
• 3. it created popular sovereignty as the method of compromise
• 4. it was designated to support the building of the trans-continental railroad

the name given to kansas because of sporadic warfare between the settlers on opposing sides in the battle over the slavery issue

they came in as a free state

infuriated by an insulting speech directed at his uncle Brooks, beat Sumner with a cane for giving his speech

it ruled congress had no authority to exclude slavery from the federal territories and said the missouri compromise was unconstitutional

• 1. lives were lost among browns raiders
• 2. the state of virginia executed brown for treason
• c. southerners decided northerners were determined to destroy slavery
• d. some abolitionists glorified brown as a saint

slave state that did not secede from the union

it began when the south fired on fort sumter

first southern state to withdraw from the union

• 1. larger man power reserve
• 2. they had more advanced industries
• 3. better transportation system
• 4. they had a stronger will to fight

the largest number of men volunteered for service

lincoln's response to opposition was to engage in widespread suspension of civil liberties

• 1. it established the elimination of slavery as a justification for war
• 2. caused the freeing of slaves in the border states before the end of the war
• 3. eventually freed thousands of slaves
• 4. provided black volunteers for the union army

they resorted to printing paper money

it was devastated by widespread destruction

it played an important part in the war in the form of the union blockade of the confederate coast

they remained neutral during the war while permitting limited aid to the confederatees

the bloodiest single day battle in the civil war

union victories that sealed the fate of the confederacy

it was lead by willian t. sherman and was a path of destruction

he surrendered on april 9, 1865 at appomattox courthouse, virginia

the south needed to be prevented from restoring their pre-civil war society

abolished slavery

• 1. they wanted to punish civil and military leaders in the confederacy
• 2. disenfranchisement of a large number of whites
• 3. confiscated property given to blacks
• 4. legal rights for blacks like being able to vote

they were designed to guarantee white supremacy

the first official definition of citizenship

gave the right to vote to blacks

it prohibited the president from removing cabinet members without the senate's approval

his trial ended with an acquittal

• 1. they're participating in politics
• 2. they served as delegates at the constitutional conventions
• 3. they organized their own religious groups
• 4. they strove to obtain an education

by the end of reconstruction the majority of southern blacks are tenant farmers

involved fraudulent construction contracts for union pacific railroad and bribing congressmen

• 1. they awarded all 20 disputed votes to hayes
• 2. this keeps the presidency with the republican party
• 3. he promised to remove troops from the south
• 4. he supported internal improvements in the south

• 1. textile factories
• 2. tobacco processing plants
• 3. iron and steel works
• 4. railroad development

• 1. advocated industrial education
• 2. concentrated on economic rather than political gains
• 3. patience in the face of discrimination
• 4. acceptance of segregation

separate but equal facilities

• 1. propery qualifications
• 2. poll taxes
• 3. literacy tests
• 4. grandfather clauses

the name given to southern white republicans

northerners who came down to the south during reconstruction in search of economic opportunity