11-15 Flashcards
where did the 49ers find gold on January 24, 1848
Sutter’s Mill
When did the 49ers get there
got there in 1849
How did the 49ers find the gold
They panned for it
a brassy yellow mineral, pyrite
Fool’s gold
Who wrote the Compromise of 1820
Henry Clay
Describe the Compromise of 1820
Missouri went to a slave state and Maine went to a free state
Also called the Missouri/Maine Compromise
They had the 36 degrees/ 30 minutes
What did Harriet B Stowe do
She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin first come out
First came out in pamphlet form and not in book form kinda like a tv series
What was the book (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) about
Talked about slaves in the south
How did they threaten the slaves
They threaten them with Sail them down river (the hotter you got), splitting up families
What was 2 things that were illegal for the slaves
It is illegal to teach a slave to read or write.
Illegal for slaves to marry
most slaves did not have last names and so there was little record of any slaves
Genealogy
How did the Slaves go to church
went to church with their owners, owners sat in the bottom of the church and slaves sat in the balcony.
What came into effect during January 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation
What was The Emancipation Proclamation
Ended slavery in the south
we would control the continent from east to west.
Manifest Destiny
The north was scared of Texas
Texas annexation
Texas was granted statehood when
1845
tried to get their own independence from Mexico
The Alamo
home of the Alamo
San Antonio, Texas
Who created the Boui knife
John Boui
Who all died during the Alamo
Everybody died at the Alamo
What was Texas’s battle cry and why
Remember the Alamo; because they wanted to get revenge
First President of Texas
Sam Houston
What famous Texan was known for wanting to get rid of slavery
John Brown
He tried to steal a lot of weapons for the slaves
John Brown
federal arsenal where they stored guns and things
Harpers ferry
Who fired the first shots and where
Fort Sumter and you don’t really know exactly
where they had to separate the slaves 1 and 1
Bleeding Kansas
She was known from the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
stocks they made on the “Railroad”
stations
She was a leader in the trail and things ; conductor
Harriet Tubman
How did they (the slaves) know where they were on the Underground Railroad
used the north star
She was also know from the underground railroad
She was also a conductor on the railroad HINT: THIS ONE IS NOT HARRIET TUBMAN
Sojourner Truth
What were the slaves looking for and why. When did they start looking for them
They always look for quakers because they took care of the slaves if they made it to Pennsylvania
Who wrote the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
hunted the slaves that had escape for money
Bounty hunters
Who was the 2 famous people killed in the Alamo
Davy Crockett and John Boui
people who settled in the prairie
Prairie Settlers
these people followed the buffalo wherever they went
Nomads
What did the Settlers do to the Buffalo and why
the settlers came in they killed all the buffalo because they were killing all their crops
What did railroad companies do to Buffalo and why
killed the buffalo because they would get in the way of them on their way to somewhere else
was the nickname for the United States because we have so many people from different places
The Melting Pot
Why did the Irish come to The US of A
came because they ran out of potatoes.
Where did these people go? (Immigrants)
They went to bigger cities to get jobs.
They couldn’t get the best jobs because a lot of people were ethnocentric.
They had to go to the dangerous jobs like coal mining.
Why was coal mining dangerous
It was dangerous because it was underground. At any moment the mine could calapspe and there is also not very good air
What did the Immigrants have when they came
When they got here they had the clothes on their back and maybe one more pair of clothes
when you use anything around to build your house
Substandard housing
Was the main man in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
was a famous writer and had a lot of money
Pursy Rose
North advantages (Union)
The North is industrial
Had a advantage with railroads to transport
Had bigger populations so there was more of them
North was cold- Home field advantage
Had trained soldiers
South Advantages (Confederates)
The South agricultural
South was hot- Home field advantage
South Disadvantages
South had farmers for soldiers
Wealthy people would send a second-which is a person they pay to fight for them in the war
Farmers weren’t wealthy enough to send anybody
What was the purpose of the Civil War?
to preserve the union
What were the names of the War
The Civil War
The war between state
war across five aprils
How long was the war
April 12, 1861- April 9, 1865
How many States succeeded from the union?
11
Who were the first people to fire a shot?
Many say the south by no one really knows
Where was the first shots fired
Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina
What was Brooks/Sumner Caning and who were the men involved
Preston Brooks (southern); Charles Sumner(northern) Brooks started to beat Sumner with his cane, nearly to death.
people who want to have a war (southerns)
Fire Eaters
extra tax you put on exported goods
Tarif
if one person ignores the laws
The Nullification Crisis
Where was the South’s original capitol and where was it moved to
The capital was in Montgomery, AL
Then Moved the Richmond, VA
Declined the job to lead to union
Said if VA left so was he
Robert E Lee
Lee surrenders to Grant when and where
April 1865
Appomattox Courthouse
First major battle of the Civil War
Manasus
How where battles named
after either the closes river or closest town
How many people died in the war
600,000 deaths during war
When was Lincoln elected
1860
Where was Lincoln born and where did he grow up
Born in Kentucky
Moved and grew up to Illinois
What was his trade (job)
A lawyer
Where did Honest Abe come from
When his wife spent over the $1,000 for the remodeling of the White House, he paid the debt out of his own pocket
Who did he marry and how many kids did he have
Mary Todd Lincoln
They had 4 kids and their family line ended
What did the Union do w/ Robert E Lee after the war
got his citizenship taken away
They also took down his house and made a cemetery out of his land because he caused all of their deaths
What was Picket’s Hill
Picket was ordered to go up a hill and it didn’t work out well.
What was signification about the Battle of Gettysburg
Largest death casualty in a battle
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln spoke for about 10 mins and wasn’t the main speaker
Battle of Antietam
Largest death casualty count in a day
13th amendment
Freed slaves
14th amendment
made them citizens
15th amendment
right to vote
16th amendment
income tax
Andersonville Prison
Said to be as hard as the Holocaust concentration camps
Henry Wirz
Was the only person to be charged with War crimes
What was the Anaconda Plan
the north tried to Mississippi river as a guideline
Battle of Vicksburg
If you had control of Vicksburg you got control of the Mississippi River
Battle of Mobile Bay involved what forts
Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines
who was the commander for Mobile Bay
Farragut
As the battle went on his would sit on his horse no matter what the war looked like
Stonewall Jackson
How did Stonewall died and where did he die
He was shot by friendly fire
Died at the Battle of Chancellorsville
What did Robert E Lee say after Stonewall die
that he lost his right arm because he was that important
Nathan Bedford
first KKK grand wizard
Who was Matthew Brady and how was he used
Civil War photographer
Used for weapon
They also had hot air balloons
Spies
Burned atlanta
Destroyed everything in his path
Also took away railroad tracks
Sherman
Where John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln
Ford’s Therate
What show were they watching
“Our American Cousin”
Similarities between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln
Both shot
Both were born 100 years aparts
Both served in the senate
Lincoln’s secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy named Lincoln
Both had a VP named Johnson
Lincoln elected in 1860, Kennedy elected in 1960
Kennedy saw Marilyn Monroe and Lincoln went to Monroe, Maryland right before they died
Fredrick Douglas
was a freed slave
was a confederate boat
Raphael Semmes was the captain
CSS ALABAMA
Amistad Case
One of the lawyers on that case
Son of John Adams
John Q Adams
PGT Beauregard (know his full name) Southern confederate leader
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
who was JEB Stuart
a southern
Is the only president not buried on American soil because at the time he was buried Virginia was not apart of the United States
John Tyler
All of the wagons were lined up and they look like trains
They had a leader at the top of the trains
Oregon Trail
what did they do in the Oregon Trail if the indians attacked
They circled the women and children
Indians used flaming arrows to take down the trains
having bravery
Counting coo
Sherman’s March to the Sea
As he is going through the south he is burning everything in his path
Burning of atlanta was the biggest thing he burnt
The little giant
He had a big speaking voice
Big politician
He said what you want to hear.
Stephen A Douglass
Lincoln’s VP
Became president after Lincoln died
Lame duck president
Andrew Johnson
George Gordon Meade
Union commander
Leaving the union
Secession
