12/3/15 Flashcards
Zachary Taylor
A general and then a president seen as a hero
Wilmot proviso
all land squired from the Mex-America war is free land
Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo
Treaty that sold Mexican Texas, Cali, Arizona, and New Mexico to the us for 15 million.
Free soil movement
The abolitionist fight to decide whether or not California and the other won land is free or not.
Frederick Douglas
Black Abolitionist.
Gold Rush
The sudden influx of people wanting gold and and rushing to get it from the west.
John Sutter
The first one to start the Cali gold rush
The Forty-Niners
The group of people who went to San Francisco in order to get gold. Also, a football team.
Sectionalism
The difference between the north south and west America.
Stephen Douglas
Designer of the Kansas-Nebraska act
Popular Sovereignty
People of a state get to vote whether or not it is free.
Millard Filmore
President during crisis of 1850 and last president of Whig party.
Daniel Webster
Was involved in a whole lot of politics and proposed many great things.
Comprimise of 1850
California is a free state, no more slave trade in do, harsher fugitive slave act, and popular sovereignty.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A woman abolitionist who wrote uncle tom’s cabin.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
An abolitionist book that effected many Americans.
James Buchanan
A failed president.
Franklin Pierce
Expansionist president who came in while the Whigs were crumbling due to slavery.
Gadsden Purchase
Bought land now in Arizona and New Mexico in order to harbor a transcontinental railroad.
Ostend Manifesto
G.et Cuba!
Kansas Nebraska act
Made each free and slave in order to balance the number of votes.
Republican Party
.the party that was replaced by, and replaced the Whigs.
Know-nothing party
WASP lovers
Bleeding Kansas
Abolitionists and pro-slavers fight.
John Brown
Abolitionist who believed that slavery can only be solved by a fight.
Dred Scott vs Stanford
Controversial ruling of dread being a slave or not.
Mexican American war
War against Mexico after the defeat of the Alamo.
