Period 5 Vocabulary
*Key Vocabulary to be defined have asterisk. Related words are also included
Underline or Highlight ALL vocabulary terms within each paragraph. Place an asterisk beside the sentence that describes the
significance of the main term.
Reading Quiz 1 2/16-2/17
Vocabulary
pg. 492-505
1. Manifest Destiny*/John L. O’Sullivan
2. Santa Fe Trail*/Californios
3. Tejanos/Stephen Austin/Santa Anna*
4. Texas Revolution*/Alamo/ Houston/Battle of San Jacinto
5. John Tyler/Annexation of Texas/Election of
1844/Liberty Party*
6. James K. Polk/Whigs
7. Oregon Territory/Fifty-four Forty or Fight*
8. John Slidell/Zachary Taylor*
9. Mexican-American War/Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo*
10. California gold rush*/Forty-Niners/Chinese
11. Commodore Matthew Perry*/Japan
Reading Quiz 2 2/18-2/19
Vocabulary
pg. 505-532
1. Wilmot Proviso*/Free Soil Party*
2. Election of 1848*/squatter sovereignty
3. Fugitive Slave Act*/Compromise of 1850*
4. Stephen Douglas/popular sovereignty*/KansasNebraska Act*
5. German and Irish immigration
6. Anti-Catholicism/nativism/Know-Nothings*
7. Bleeding Kansas*/Sumner-Brooks/Lecompton
Constitution
8. Republican Party*/Election of 1856
9. Dred Scott*/Taney/Missouri Compromise
10. Lincoln-Douglas Debates*/”house divided”
11. John Brown*/Harpers Ferry/Thoreau
12. “fire-eaters”*
13. Election of 1860*/Democratic split/Lincoln
14. Crittenden Compromise*/South Carolina secession
15. Jefferson Davis/Confederacy*
16. Fort Sumter*/Lincoln’s inaugural address
Reading Quiz 3 2/22-2/23
Vocabulary
pg. 538-561
1. Monitor v. Merrimac*
2. Union vs. Confederate Advantage &
Disadvantage*/Anaconda Plan
3. Army of the Potomac vs. Northern
Virginia/McClellan/Bull Run*
4. Battle of Antietam*
5. Ulysses Grant*
6. Contraband of war*/”freedom war”
7. Radical Republicans*/Thaddeus Stevens
8. Emancipation Proclamation*/nature of the war
9. Black soldiers & sailors*/54th Massachusetts Regiment
10. Second American Revolution*/Frederick Douglass
11. Ex Parte Milligan*/writ of habeas corpus
12. Alexander Stephan’s speech*
Reading Quiz 3 2/22-2/23
Vocabulary
pg. 562-580
1. Transcontinental Railroad*/National banking system
2. Sand Creek Massacre*
3. Women & war work/Clara Barton*/suffrage
4. New York Draft Riots*/Copperheads*
5. “King Cotton Diplomacy”*
6. Southern unionists*/inflation
7. Gettysburg*/Vicksburg
8. Election of 1864*/William Tecumseh Sherman
9. Wade-Davis Bill*/Lincoln’s 10% Plan
10. March to the Sea*/Thirteenth Amendment
11. Sea Island Experiment
12. Black suffrage/Ford’s Theater*
Reading Quiz 4 TBA
Vocabulary
pg. 586-622
1. Freedmen’s Bureau*
2. Sharecropping*
3. Crop-lien system*
4. Black Codes*
5. Civil Rights Bill of 1866*
6. Fourteenth Amendment*
7. “swing around the circle”
8. “waving the bloody shirt”
9. Fifteenth Amendment*
10. Literacy tests*
11. Bradwell v. Illinois*
12. Carpetbaggers & scalawags*
13. Enforcement Acts*
14. Civil Rights Acts of 1875*
15. Slaughterhouse Cases*
16. Redeemers*
17. Bargain of 1877*