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- samuel f. b. morse
- inventor of the telegraph
- conscription
- drafting of civilians to serve in the army
- gold rush
- movement of people to a place in which gold has been discovered
- specialization
- in farming the raising of one or two crops for sale rather than a variety of foods for personal use
- david g. farragut
- commander of the union navy
- carpetbagger
- northerner who moved to the south after the war
- roger b. taney
- chief justice who wrote the ruling in the dred scott case
- bonanza farm
- large single crop farms
- secession
- decision by a state to leave the union
- scalawag
- white southerner who joined the republican party
- manifest destiny
- belief that the united states would expand across the continent
- w. e. b. du bois
- first african american to receive ph.d from harvard
- confederacy
- confederate states of america formed in 1861 by the southern states that seceded from the union
- clara barton
- union nurse
- settlement houses
- community center that addressed problems in slum
- thirteenth amendment
- abolished slavery everywhere in the united states
- john deere
- inventor of the steel plow
- homesteader act
- act that offered free land to western settlers
- segregation
- the word used to describe racial separation
- cross of gold
- backing dollars solely with gold
- rural free delivery
- system that brought packages directly to homes
- jane addams
- social reformer who helped the poor
- thaddeus stevens
- one of the leaders of the radical republicans
- wade davis bill
- bill passed by congress and vetoed by president lincoln that would have given congress control of reconstruction
- jefferson davis
- president of the confederate states of america
- millard fillmore
- 13th president
- john brown
- fierce opponent of slavery who led a raid that killed five proslavery people
- brigham young
- leader of the mormons who decided to move the group west to utah
- wilmot proviso
- bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the war with mexico
- hiram revels
- first african american senator
- franklin pierce
- 14th president
- market revolution
- economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves
- chinese exclusion act
- act that limited chinese immigration
- transcontinental railroad
- a railroad that corsses the entire country
- george m. pullman
- inventor of the sleeping car
- fort pillow
- site fo confederate massacre of more than 200 african american war prisoners
- stephen f austin
- leader of american colony in texas
- andersonville
- confederate war camp
- forty niners
- people who came to california in 1849 in search of gold
- ida b. wells
- african american reformer who tried to end lynching
- john wilkes booth
- assassin of president lincoln
- mormons
- religious group that settled near present day salt lake city
- soddy
- a frontier home usually dug into a hill or made from sod
- fifty four forty or fight
- slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for us annexation of the oregon territory
- cyrus mccormick
- inventor of the mechanical reaper
- political machine
- a group that controlled a political party
- tenant farming
- renting land from landowners for cash
- copperhead
- northern democrat who advocated making peace with the confederacy during the civil war
- plessy v. ferguson
- court case that upheld the jim crow laws
- social gospel movement
- movement that urged people to help the poor
- joseph smith
- founder and leader of the mormons
- sitting bull
- leader of hunkpapa sioux
- urbanization
- the growth of cities
- capitalism
- economic system in which indiviuals and businesses control the means of production
- popular sovereignty
- idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery
- radical republicans
- one of the congressional republicans who wanted to destroy the political power of slaveholders and to give african americans citizenship and the right to vote
- gentlemens agreement
- agreement that limited japanses emigration to us
- freeport doctrine
- idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
- horace greeley
- newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly formed republican party
- sharecropping
- system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
- booker t. washington
- prominent african american educator
- antonio lopez de santa anna
- mexican president who fought texans in the texas revolution
- anaconda plan
- three part union strategy to win the civil war