APUSH Vocab

Abraham Lincoln

Alamo

Bear Flag Revolt

“Bleeding Kansas”

Charles Sumner

Compromise of 1850

Dred Scott decision

Election of 1860

“Fifty-four forty or fight!”

Franklin Pierce

Free-soil party

Gadsden Purchase

Gold Rush

Harpers Ferry

James Buchanan

James K. Polk

John Brown

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Lecompton Constitution

Lincoln-Douglas debate

Manifest Destiny 

Mexican American War

Oregon Trail

Popular sovereignty

“Positive good” argument

Sam Houston

“Slave power conspiracy”

Stephen A. Douglas

Tejanos

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Wilmot Proviso

Zachary Taylor

54th Massachusetts infantry 

Alexander Stephens

Antietam

Appomattox Court House

Confederate States of America

Confiscation Acts

Conscription

Crittenden Compromise

Election of 1864

Emancipation proclamation

First (and second) Battle of Bull Run

Fort Sumter

George McClellan

Gettysburg

Greenbacks

Homestead Act

Jefferson Davis 

Monitor and Merrimac

Morrill Land Grant College Act

Robert E. Lee

Siege of Vicksburg

Shiloh

Thirteenth Amendment

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Transcontinental railroad 

Ulysses S. Grant

William T. Sherman

14th amendment

15th amendment

Andrew Johnson

Atlantic Compromise

Black Codes

Booker T. Washington

Carpetbagger

Civil rights cases of 1883

Compromise of 1877

Congressional reconstruction plan

Credit Mobilier scandal

Crop-lien system

Enforcement Acts

Freedmen’s Bureau

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) 

Ida B. Wells

Impeachment

Jim Crow laws

John Wilkes Booth 

Ku Klux Klan

Literacy test

Minstrel show

New South

Panic of 1873

Plessy v. Ferguson

Poll tax

Presidential reconstruction plan (Johnson’s plan)

Radical Republicans

Reconstruction

Redeemers

Scalawag

“Seward’s Folly”

Sharecropping

“Ten Percent” Plan

Tenure of Office Act

Thaddeus Stevens

The “Lost Cause”

Ulysses S. Grant

Wade-Davis Bill