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| Henry David Thoreau | Enlightened thinker, opposed to Mexican War |
| 15th amendment | Guaranteed right to vote to Black MEN (in theory) |
| Differences between North and South in Antebellum era | Transportation, social classes, industrialization, agriculture, etc |
| Gettysburg | Turned South away from being on the offense in the Civil War |
| Antietam | Bloodiest single day in the Civil War, inspired EmancipationProclamation |
| Compromise of 1850 | CA as a free state, fugitive slave act reinforced, slave TRADE abolished in D.C. |
| Kansas and Nebraska Act | Popular Sovereignty (vote) would determine slave or free status |
| Crittenden Proposal | failed proposal which would have kept slavery forever from being taken away in the South |
| West Virginia | Created during the Civil War as a new state |
| Emancipation Proclamation | "Freed" slaves in states that were in rebellion, encouraged Blacks to fight for the Union |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Supreme Court case that ruled slaves were property without rights |
| American Slavery As It Is | Along with Uncle Tom's Cabin showed the harsh reality of Slavery |
| Theodore Weld | Abolitionist who wrote American Slavery As It Is |
| Grimke Sisters | Abolitionists who coauthored American Slavery As It is |
| Election of 1860 | Lincoln won North, Breckinridge won South |
| Homestead Act | Gave 160 Acres to people to settle in the West |
| Nativists | Anti-immigrant Americans, founders of the Know Nothing Party |
| Abolitionists | Opposed Mexican-American War as could lead to more slave states |
| Wilmot Proviso | Failed proposal to outlaw slavery in States gained in Mexican-American War |
| Bleeding Kansas | Outbreak of violence over popular sovereignty approach to voting for slavery |
| Sharecropping | Southern economic system that virtually kept slavery in place |
| Black Codes | Took away the rights of African-Americans supposedly guaranteed in the 14th |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law |
| Freedmen's Bureau and Black Churches | Provided the most direct help for freed slaves |
| 14th Amendment | Civil Rights amendment, got rid of 3/5 compromise, |
| Immigration Peak Antebellum US | Led to nativism, more industrialization jobs |
| Seneca Falls Declaration | Opposed idea of women's place being in the home alone, encouraged social reforms |
| German and Irish Immigrants | Largest group of immigrants in antebellum America due to political and economic troubles in Europe |
| Amnesty Act of 1872 | Allowed former confederates to regain political power |
| Election of 1876 | Electoral Commission named Hayes the winner in spite of losing the popular vote and NO ONE winning a majority of electoral votes |
| Hayes election as president | Southern Democrats agreed to Hayes if federal troops removed |
| Bacon's rebellion | Farmers felt threatened by Native Americans and not supported by colonial government |
| Colonial governments | Had at least one elected body in legislatures |
| Colonial settlers mid 18th Century | 2.5 million, mostly illiterate, more slaves than freedmen in some Southern states, British, Irish, French, Dutch, Scottish predominant |
| Enlightenment | 17th century focus on reason and scinece |
| Slaves to America | Begun 1619, 4% of total slave trade came to America |
| English Bill of Rights | Many elements in US Bill of Rights, response to Glorious Revolution |
| Life, Liberty and Property must be protected by government | John Locke- power of government comes from the people, social contract theory |
| Declaration of Independence | 1776, authored by Jefferson |
| "Common Sense" said the people should overthrow a government not supporting their natural rights | Thomas Paine |
| Proclamation Line of 1763 | Said American colonists couldn't settle in the land from Appalachians to Mississippi (compromise for Native Americans) |
| French and Indian War | Brits/Colonists/Native Americans vs. French/Native Americans over land in Ohio River Valley |
| Stamp Act | Tax on paper products- produced in the colonies |
| Tea Act | Favored the East India Company over American colonial economic interests |
| Quebec Act | British took more control over Canadian government- allowed Catholicism as an official relgion |
| Intolerable Act | Response to Boston Tea Party, abolished colonial government in Massachusetts |
| Turning Point Revolutionary War | Saratoga- French began aiding Americans |
