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USH Unit 1 Flashcards

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Scott v Sanford

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Supreme Court case, Dred Scott sues for his freedom and loses

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John Brown

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Abolitionist that seized an arsenal in Harpers Ferry to begin a rebellion against slaveholders

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Ulysses S Grant

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Union general that fought in the West and later becomes the U.S. president in 1868

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Robert E Lee

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Confederate general that attacked McClellan’s forces

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Abraham Lincoln

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President in 1860, passed the Emancipation Proclamation, assassinated days after end of Civil War

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Andrew Johnson

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Tennessee democrat, vice president to Lincoln, assumed presidency after Lincoln assassination

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Rutherford B Hayes

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Republican candidate of 1876 election, promised to pull out federal troops in south if Republican party wins

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George Custer

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Union officer and commander, killed in conflict with native people, lost his entire regiment

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Sitting Bull

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Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against US government policies

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Carpetbaggers

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name given to Northerners who moved South and supported Republicans

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Scalawags

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name given to Southerners who supported Republicans and reconstruction of south

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Military Reconstruction Act

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Divided former Confederacy into five military districts

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Vigilance Committees

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Groups of ordinary people who organize to find criminals and bring them to justice

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Hydraulic Mining

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Method of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure, exposing minerals under rocks, dirt, and gravel

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Open Range

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Vast area of grassland that the federal government owned

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Haciendas

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Huge ranches

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Barrios

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Spanish neighborhoods

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Las Gorras Blancas

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Spanish people that raided white ranches in protest to land rights

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Great Plains

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Region of prairie west of Mississippi River and east of Rocky Mountains

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Homestead Act

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Piece of US public land acquired by living on and cultivating it

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Dry Farming

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A way of farming dry land in which the seed is planted deep in the ground where there is moisture

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Sodbusters

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A name given to Great Plains farmers

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Bonanza farms

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A large, highly profitable wheat farm

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Morrill Land Grant Act

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Made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants

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Oklahoma Land Rush

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Thousands rushed to claim large territories opened by the government

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Annuity

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Money paid by contract at regular intervals

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Assimilate

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To absorb a group into the culture of another population

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Allotment

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A plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for a specified use

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Dawes Act

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Altered the reservation system by diving land into allotments for farming or ranching to native people

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Dakota Sioux Uprising

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Four Dakota killed five white settlers, the result was that many Sioux were taken prisoner and the largest public execution occurred in Mankato, MN

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Sand Creek Massacre

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Cheyenne people were blindsided while waiting to negotiate a peace deal, ~150 natives dead

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Battle of Little Bighorn

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Native victory against the US army led by George Custer

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Battle of Wounded Knee

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Native weapon misfire leads to 200 native deaths and zero white deaths

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Red Cloud’s War

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Resisted white settlement in Cheyenne territory, 80 US soldiers ambushed and killed

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13th Amendment

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Banned slavery in the United States (1865)

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14th Amendment

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Expanded federal power over the states, extended civil rights through its equal protection clause (1868)

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15th Amendment

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Prohibited the federal government and each state from denying a citizen’s right to vote

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North Advantages

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Economic Might
Population
Industries
Infrastructure

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South Advantages

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Better officers
Defensive war
Saw themselves as revolutionaries

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North Disadvantages

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Poor generals
Unknown terrain

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South Disadvantages

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Outnumbered troops
Economic collapse
Transportation problems

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