AP World Ch 31
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- Manifest Destiny
- the belief that the United States was destined to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
- Louis Riel
- Métis leader, leader of the North-West Rebellion
- After the American Civil War, freed blacks___.
- quickly lost their political and civil liberties in the South.
- Fatt Hing Chin
- One of the earliest Chinese migrants. Went to California for gold
- Louisiana Purchase
- Napoleon needed funds to protect France from enemies in 100 years war so he sold the US Louisiana
- Abraham Lincoln
- Election spark that ignited civil war. Sided with northern states on policies
- The Mexican-American War
- Texas wanted to become part of U.S. Ended with Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Wounded Knee
- Sioux did Ghost Dance, ceremony that tried to make whites disappear. Sioux man accidentally shot off a gun, and cavalry overreacted
- Little Big Horn
- Sioux defeated Colonel George Custer
- The Sioux
- Resisted white encroachers with firearms and equestrian skills
- The Cherokee
- Tribe affected by the Trail of Tears
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (States?)
- Ended Mex-Am War. US took 1/2 Mexico's territory and payed 15 mill for Texas, Rio Grande, California, New Mexico
- Reasons for the American Civil War
- 1) slavery 2) nature of the Union 3) state's rights 4)industrial-capitalist sytem against plantation
- Why did the North win the American Civil War?
- They had more resources
- What did the Civil War achieve?
- Ended slavery, made the US politically united, enhanced fed gov authority
- Zapata
- Mex. Revolutionary leader who called for land reform and the break up of large estates and ranches in order to give land to peasant farmers. S
- President Benito Juarez
- A mestizo who led a liberal reform movement to limit the power of the Catholic church and military. La Reforma
- Porifrio Diaz
- Mexican revolution started when middle/low class overthrew this dictator
- Caudillos
- Military leaders who came to power after the Mex revolution
- Juan Manuel de Rosas
- Argentinan caudillo who united the area but did so violently. Nicknamed "Argentine Nero"
- Francisco Villa
- Hated timid government reform and attacked US citizens in retaliation for US support of gov
- The Seven Years War
- The colony of New France passed into the British empire after the British victory
- John MacDonald
- first prime minister of Canada and moved to incorporate British North America into the Dominion; negotiated the purchase of huge territories; oversaw construction of a continental railroad
- Simon Bolivar (Quote?)
- "I fear peace more than war" strengthened South America militarily
- British North America Act of 1867
- designed to attract migrants, protect nascent industries through tariffs, and build national transportation systems was a policy in
- United States foreign investment came from where?
- Great Britain
- The War of 1812
- United Canada and caused anti-US sentiments
- The National Policy
- A program of economic development that made rairoads and caused problems with indigenous people in Canada
- Walt Whitman
- American poet who wrote "Song of Myself"
- In terms of Industrial Revolution in the U.s, the most important economic development was?
- railroads
- By the 1860's, who was Britain's main supplier of beef?
- Argentina
- American Reconstruction
- The rebuilding of the American South after the Civil War
- In 1907, the U.S government ordered a complete halt of migration from?
- Japan
- The Northwest Rebellion
- An insurrection led by Riel that was metis vs canadian forces
- Gettysburg
- final battle of the civil war
- Antietam
- ..., the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Made the abolition of slavery the specific goal of the war, it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
- Where did "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" come from?
- the declaration of independance
- Missouri Compromise
- an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories
- Which Latin American country first tried to topple the grossly unequal system of landed states?
- Mexico
- Golondrinas
- "swallows"; Italian workers who migrated annually between Europe and South America to take advantage of different growing seasons
- The Fifth of may 1862
- Cinco de Maya. When Mexico overcame France
- La Reforma
- Led by Juarez to limit power of Catholic church and military
- Gauchos
- Argentine cowboys
- Machismo
- an emphasis on male strength and dominance
- The Carlisle School
- One of many boarding schools that NA children were forced to attend to "american-ize" them
- A "Delcaration of Sentiments"
- Made at Seneca Falls feminist convention that said all men and women were created equal
- Seneca Falls Convention
- Women's suffrage convention
- What resources was the foundation for Canada's economic expansion?
- gold, silver, copper, nickel, asbestos
- Jefferson Davis
- President of the Confederate States of America
- After what event did the Civil war turn into a war against slavery?
- The Emancipation Proclamation