Period 5: 1844-1877

manifest destiny      Oregon Trail      “Remember the Alamo”      Texas independence

Oregon Treaty, 1846      Mexican War      “Civil Disobedience”

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848      California Gold Rush, 1848-1855

Mexican Cession      Wilmot Proviso      Free Soil Party      Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850      popular sovereignty     Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Republican Party      free labor      Bleeding Kansas

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)      Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858      John Brown’s raid, 1859

Election of 1860      secession      Union vs. Confederacy      Civil War      Fort Sumter

Anaconda Plan      Robert E. Lee      Ulysses S. Grant      Emancipation Proclamation

54th Massachusetts      Gettysburg Address      habeas corpus

greenbacks      Clara Barton      New York City draft riots      cotton diplomacy

Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg      Sherman’s March to the Sea      

13th Amendment      Appomattox      John Wilkes Booth      Reconstruction Era

“40 acres and a mule”      Freedmen’s Bureau      sharecropping      Andrew Johnson    

Presidential Reconstruction      Black Codes      Radical Republicans      14th Amendment

Reconstruction Acts      impeachment      15th Amendment      carpetbaggers      

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)      Enforcement Acts      redeemers      Compromise of 1877