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Category: Outro
Atualizado: 14 jan 2020
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Created byChiebuka Soribe
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Freedmen's Bureau
-was an agency created by Congress to help
millions of former black slaves and poor whites
in the South after the Civil War by providing
food, housing and medical aid, set up schools
and offered legal assistance.The Civil Rights Act of 1866
-was the first Federal Law to define citizenship
and say that all citizens are equally protected by
the law. This was mainly to protect the civil
rights of persons of African descent born in or
brought to the United States.Reconstruction Act of 1867
-Act that were supposed to
bring the southern
states back into the union.Battle of Gettysburg
-Advancing Confederates clashed with the
Union’s Army of the Potomac,
at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. The next
day the Confederates attacked the Federals. On
July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000
troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery
Ridge which eventually failed. Lee withdrew his
army toward Virginia on July 4.Confiscation act
-laws passed by the United States Congress
during the Civil War for freeing the slaves still
held by the Confederate forces .Battle of Antiteim
-When General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern
Virginia fought against the Union General
George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac when
Lee tried to invade the north.Election of Lincoln
-a four-way contest, the Republican where
Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin won the
election.Panic of 1857
-a financial panic in the United States because of
the declining international economy and over-
expansion of the domestic economy.Compromise of 1877
- an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the
U.S. presidential election and made the United
States federal government pulling the last
troops out of the South, and formally ending
the Reconstruction Era.Gadsden Purchase
-an agreement between the United States and
Mexico where the United States agreed to pay
Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile
portion of Mexico.Enforcment Acts
-Three bills passed by the United States
Congress. They were criminal codes that
protected African-Americans right to vote, to
hold office, to serve on juries, and made sure
they had equal protection of the law.Compromise of 1850
-five separate bills passed by the United States
Congress that ended a political confrontation
between slave and free states in the Mexican–
American War.California Gold Rush
-when gold was found by James W. Marshall at
Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, bringing
approximately 300,000 people to CaliforniaTexas Annexation
-was the annexation of the Republic of Texas
turning the United States of America, which was
the Union's 28th state.Election of 1844
-the 15th presidential election, where Democrat
James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a
contest about the controversial issues of
slavery and the annexation of the Republic of
Texas.
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