Chapter 14
Mountain men and the rendezvous system Santa Fe Trail Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” Manifest Destiny Overland Trails Oregon Trail California Trail Donner Party Hudson’s Bay Company Dr. John McLoughlin “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” Treaty of Oregon (1846) Stephen Austin Tejanos Empresarios The Texas Revolt (1836) The Alamo Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna General Sam Houston The Republic of Texas Election of 1844 “Dark horse” candidate James Polk James Birney Joint-resolution for Texas Mexican-American War 1846- General Zachary Taylor Bear Flag Revolt 1846 John Fremont John Slidell “Mr. Polk’s War” Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” Nicholas Trist Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Gadsden Purchase “Forty-niners” and the Gold Rush Mining camps Wilmot Proviso Liberty Party Free-Soil Party popular sovereignty Election of 1848 Chapter 15 American Renaissance 494 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 495 Herman Melville, Moby Dick 495 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of… 495 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Theodore Weld 496 Birney’s “slave power” 498 Compromise of 1850 499 Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave 501 Fugitive Slave Law 501 Underground Railroad* George Fitzhugh, Sociology of the South* The Burns Case 502 Lewis Cass 503 Election of 1852 503 “Young America” Movement 503 William Walker 503 Ostend Manifesto 504 Commodore Matthew Perry 504 Stephen Douglas 505 Kansas-Nebraska Act 505 Bleeding Kansas 506 Lager Deer Riots 506 The Know-Nothings/American Party 509 Republican Party 509 Caning of Sumner 509 Election of 1856 510 Franklin Pierce 510 Millard Fillmore 510 James Buchanan 510 The Dred Scott Decision 511 Chief Justice Roger Taney 511 Lecompton Constitution 512 Panic of 1857 513 John Brown’s Raid 514 Election of 1860 515 Constitutional Union Party 515 Lincoln-Douglas Debates* Freeport Doctrine* Crittenden Compromise* Confederate States of America 520 Montgomery Convention 520 Jefferson Davis 520 Chapter 16 Fort Sumter Suspension of habeas corpus* Border states Confederate States of America First Battle of Bull Run/Battle of Manassas Robert E. Lee William Seward Salmon P. Chase Republican Party Legal Tender Act greenbacks National Bank Act Morrill Tariff Act Homestead Act Morrill Land Grant Act Department of Agriculture Laird ironclads Cotton diplomacy Anaconda Plan General George B. McClellan Peninsula campaign Seven Days victories Second Battle of Bull Run/Second Manassas Antietam Fredericksburg Shiloh Battle of Glorieta Pass Monitor vs. Merrimac “Contrabands” / Confiscation Acts Emancipation Proclamation Thirteenth Amendment The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment Army nurses Copperheads McCormick reaper Conscription New York City Draft Riots General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Gettysburg Vicksburg General Ulysses S Grant General William Tecumseh Sherman Sherman’s March Election of 1864 Petersburg Appomattox Lincoln’s Assassination John Wilkes Booth Chapter 17 Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan (Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction) Ten Percent Plan Radical Republicans Wade-Davis Bill Forty acres and a mule Freedmen’s Bureau Andrew Johnson Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan Thaddeus Stevens Black Codes Civil Rights Act of 1866 Fourteenth Amendment Congressional Reconstruction First Reconstruction Act Tenure of Office Act President Johnson’s Impeachment Election of 1868 Ku Klux Klan Fifteenth Amendment Sharecropping Union League Carpetbaggers Scalawags Colfax Massacre Enforcement Acts Ku Klux Klan Act Civil Rights Act of 1875 Hiram Revels* Southern “Redemption” Slaughterhouse Cases Crop Lien System The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Burlingame Treaty Chinese Exclusion Act Jay Gould Credit Mobilier Affair National Mineral Act of 1866 Boss Tweed Ring Liberal Republicans Horace Greeley Depression of 1873 Samuel Tilden Rutherford B. Hayes Compromise of 1877 |
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