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Unit 3 (Vocabulary (Kansas Nebraska Act - 1854, allowed citizens in the…
Unit 3
Vocabulary
Kansas Nebraska Act - 1854, allowed citizens in the Nebraska and Kansas territories to decide locally weather to allow slavery. The act was modeled on the compromise of 1850 but repealed both that compromise & the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Fugitive Slave Act- A law passed as part of the compromise of 1850, which provided Southern slaves holders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Officially ends Mexican- American War . Mexico gives New Mexico and California to America, who agrees to pay 15 million in exchange. Mexico agrees to the Rio Grande as the boarder with Texas.
Bleeding Kansas- Voting on slavery turned to violence as Pro & Anti citizen clashed. More than 200 hundred people would be killed over a period of 1 year.
Missouri compromise - A settlement of dispute between slave & free states , contained in several laws passed during 1820& 1821. Northern legislators had tried to prohibit slavery in Missouri, which was applying for statehood.
Indian Removal Act- 1830, signed law by president Andrew Jackson. The Indian Removal Act provided for the general resettlement of Native Americans from east of Mississippi river to land west.
Manifest Destiny -The 19th century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the America continents was both justified and inevitable.
Popular Sovereignty- or the sovereignty of the people's rules, is the principle that the authority of a state and it's government is created and sustained by the consent of it's people, though their elective representative( rule by the people) who are the source of all political power.
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Gadsden Purchase 1853 
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Indian Removal Act
Consequences
Leads to war
Plains War
Red River War
1868 Southern Reservations Kiowas and Comanche. The U.S herding the people of friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on others.
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Sand Creek Massacre
Cheyenne tribe returned to Colorado in 1864 assuming they were under protection of the U.S they attacked them and most of them were killed including women & children
Wounded Knee
1890 South Dakota. They took Sioux to a camp, soldiers demanded the Native Americans give up their weapons, a shot was fired not clear which side, soldiers opened fire. Soldiers left corpses to freeze on ground this marked the end of the wars.
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What is it?
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Tribes who did not leave, were forced to leave by the U.S. Army
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Trail of tears
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4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western lands.
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Social Reforms
Woman
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Andrew Carnegie:CEO of US steel
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Labor Unions
Provided better pay, Congress passed the 8 hour work day in 1868.
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Protect workers, provide better worker conditions
Multiple exits, sprinklers, etc.,
Textile workers
They were mostly children between the age of 13- 16
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