Vocabulary Terms SSUSH8 and SSUSH9

(1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory.

• Mexican-American War

• Civil War

• Spanish-American War

• War of 1812

Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.

• Vicksburg

• Shiloh

• Atlanta

• Savannah

Meant to help heal and restore the country after four years of civil war.

• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

11th President of the United States from Tennessee; committed to westward expansion; led the country during the Mexican War; U.S. annexed Texas and took over Oregon during his administration

• James Polk

• John Tyler

• James Buchanan

• William Henry Harrison

A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

• Manifest Destiny

• Popular Sovereignty

• Annexation

• Habeas Corpus

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.

• Annexation

• Mexican Session

• Manifest Destiny

• Popular Sovereignty

Split between U.S. and Great Britain, the U.S. had finally achieved its goal of Manifest Destiny.

• Mexican Session

• Oregon Territory

• Annexation of Texas

• California Territory

(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas.

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act