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Unit 3 Vocabulary Part I & II
American Civil War- A four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and
11 Southern states that seceded/separated from the Union and formed
the Confederate States of America.
The North – The 23 states that remained in the Union.
The South – The 11 states that formed the Confederate States America.
(Carolina,Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Ark
ansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina)
Industrialization- A period history in which society moved to a focus on
machines and factories. The North in America, especially, built large factories and
machines to do things people used to do by hand.
States’ Rights - the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by
the federal government.
Sectionalism - loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country,
rather than the nation as a whole.
Republican Party - The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by a group
who opposed the expansion of Slavery into new U.S. territories and states. Six year
s after the new party was formed, Republican nominee Abraham
Lincoln won the U.S. presidential election.
Democratic Party – During the Civil War the Democratic party was in conflict
over extending slavery to the Western territories. Southern Democrats insisted on
protecting slavery in all the territories while many Northern Democrats resisted.
The party split over the slavery issue in 1860.
Battle at Sabine Pass - The battle of Sabine Pass on September 8, 1863 turned
back one of several Union attempts to invade and occupy part of Texas during the
Civil War.
Battle at Palmito Pass – The last battle of the Civil War fought May 11 & 12 of
1865.
Robert E. Lee - Robert E. Lee served as a military officer in the U.S. Army, a
West Point commandant and the legendary general of the Confederate Army
during the American Civil War (1861-65).
Ulysses S. Grant - Ulysses Grant (1822-1885) commanded the victorious Union
army during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and served as the 18th U.S.
president from 1869 to 1877. An Ohio native, Grant graduated from West Point
and fought in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).
Abraham Lincoln – Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught Illinois lawyer and legislator
who opposed slavery. He won the Republican Party’s nomination for president in
1860. His election that November pushed several Southern states to secede by the
time of his inauguration in March 1861. Lincoln proved to be a shrewd military
strategist and a savvy leader. His Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863,
freed all slaves in the rebellious states. His Gettysburg Address is one of the most
famous speeches in American history. In April 1865, with the Union on the brink
of victory, Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by the Confederate sympathizer
John Wilkes Booth.
Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on
February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States.
The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory,
including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Mexico also gave up all
claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as America’s southern boundary.
Manifest Destiny- Man’s God given right to expand to the west and take over the
land.
Annex – to add a part
Secession – separating or withdrawing from a group
Westward Expansion – expanding to the west to gain land.
Sovereignty – supreme power or authority
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo - Limits and Settlement between the United
States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on
February 2, 1848.
Compromise of 1850 - a package of five separate bills passed by the United States
Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation
between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the
Mexican-American War (1846–1848).
Union- The states that didn’t want slavery, also called the North. The U.S.
government.