Advanced Placement United States History
Vocabulary List
Period 5: 1844-1877
For PPT: Manifest Destiny
1. Manifest Destiny
2. Election of 1844
3. President James K. Polk
4. Liberty Party
5. Walker Tariff
6. John Jacob Astor
7. Oregon Trail
8. “54˚40’ or Fight!”
9. Oregon Treaty
10. annexation of Texas
11. President John Tyler
12. Texas boundary dispute
13. Nueces River
14. Rio Grande River
15. Mexican War
16. “Conscience Whigs”
17. “Spot” Resolutions
18. “Mexico will poison us!”
19. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
20. Mexican Cession
21. Wilmot Proviso
For PPT: Sectionalism 1844-1860
1. Wilmot Proviso
2. popular sovereignty
3. election of 1848
4. Free-Soil Party
5. President Zachary Taylor
6. California Gold Rush
7. Compromise of 1850
8. Henry Clay
9. Daniel Webster
10. William H. Seward
11. Fugitive Slave Law
12. Ableman v. Booth
13. President Millard Fillmore
14. Stephen Douglas
15. President Franklin Pierce
16. “Young America”
17. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
18. Commodore Matthew Perry
19. Ostend Manifesto
20. Gadsden Purchase
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Hinton Helper, Impending Crisis of the South
“Bleeding Kansas”
New England Emigrant Aid Company
sack of Lawrence, Kansas
caning of Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
John Brown
Pottowatomie Massacre
Lecompton Constitution
“vote early and vote often”
President James Buchanan
“Know Nothings” (American Party)
Dred Scott case
Roger B. Taney
Panic of 1857
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Freeport Doctrine
Harper’s Ferry
election of 1860
Constitutional Union Party
Abraham Lincoln
South Carolina, secession
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Crittenden amendments
For PPT: Civil War Politics and Economy
1. President Abraham Lincoln
2. First Inaugural Address
3. William H. Seward
4. Salmon P. Chase
5. Edwin M. Stanton
6. Ft. Sumter, April 12, 1861
7. Lincoln’s call for volunteers
8. secession of Middle South
9. Border Slave States
10. Robert E. Lee
11. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
12. Confederate States of America
13. JeTrent Affair
14. federal conscription laws
15. New York Draft Riot
16. African American soldiers
17. Morrill Tariff
18. Greenbacks
19. National Banking System
20. Homestead Act
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Morrill Land Grant Act
Pacific Railway Act
Union blockade
Ex Parte Merryman, habeas corpusfferson Davis
For PPT: The Civil War
1. Anaconda Plan
2. Battle of Bull Run
3. “Stonewall” Jackson
4. George McClellan
5. Peninsula Campaign
6. Battle of Antietam
7. Emancipation Proclamation
8. Confiscation Acts
9. Ulysses S. Grant
10. Battle of Gettysburg
11. Gettysburg Address
12. Vicksburg
13. William T. Sherman
14. “March to the Sea”
15. election of 1864
16. War Democrats
17. Peace Democrats
18. “Copperheads”
19. National Union Party
20. Andrew Johnson
21. Second Inaugural speech
22. Grant’s Virginia Campaign
23. Appomattox Court House
24. John Wilkes Booth
25. Mathew Brady
For PPT: Reconstruction
1. Thirteenth Amendment
2. Freedmen’s Bureau
3. President Andrew Johnson
4. Presidential Reconstruction
5. “10% Plan”
6. Wade-Davis Bill
7. Black Codes
8. Congressional Reconstruction
9. Civil Rights Bill of 1866
10. Fourteenth Amendment
11. Radical Republicans
12. Charles Sumner
13. Thaddeus Stephens
14. Moderate Republicans
15. Military Reconstruction Act
16. impeachment of Johnson
17. Fifteenth Amendment
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Hiram R. Revels
Blanche K. Bruce
“Scalawags”
“Carpetbaggers”
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Force Acts (Enforcement Acts)
“Solid South”
“Lost Cause”
“Redeemers”
“Bourbons”
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Compromise of 1877
President Rutherford B. Hayes
Ex Parte Milligan, 1866
sharecropping
crop lien laws
“Slaughterhouse” cases
“Civil Rights” cases
poll taxes
literacy tests
“grandfather” clauses
gerrymandering
“Jim Crow” laws
lynching
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
“accommodation”
“Atlanta Compromise”
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
“separate but equal”
W. E. B. Du Bois
Niagara Movement
“talented tenth”
NAACP