16-19 Flashcards
What did the Monroe doctrine do?
It forbade European intervention to the affairs of the Americas.
What year was the Missouri compromise?
1820
Is Texas a slave or free state?
Slave
Under whose presidency was the tariff of abomination created?
Jackson
Was the Missouri compromise permanent?
No
When was the tariff of abomination created?
1828
What was the tariff of abomination?
It was a high tariffs bill that favorite northern manufacturing over Southern agriculture.
What issues did Texas see upon their request to join the union?
The United States was hesitant to except Texas as a slave state for fears of upsetting the balance.
What did the Missouri compromise do?
It outlawed slaves north of the 36 30 line.
Why was the Cottongin so important?
It allowed King cotton to remain in control and it also give a boost to northern manufacturing as it made Cotton supplies larger.
Where did the nullification crisis start? (state)
South Carolina
When was the nullification crisis start?
1832 and the tariff of abomination
What is nativism?
Fearing that foreigners would outbreed, Outvote, or overwhelm the old native inhabitants.
When was the Monroe doctrine created?
1823
Immigration of what two countries started nativist views?
Germany and Ireland
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What is the name of canal that ran through New York cutting it exactly in the middle?
The Erie Canal
What two bodies of water did the Erie Canal link?
The Great Lakes with the Hudson river
What year was the Erie Canal started in what year was it finished?
It was started in 1817 and was completed in 1825.
What important line was said at the women’s rights convention that everyone knew?
All men and women are created equal.
Who wrote the American scholar?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who was the New York leader who was driving leadership of the Erie canal
Governor Dewitt Clinton
Read pages 348 and 349.
Did you read them?
What transportation system sprung up quickly after the canals and swiftly put them out of business?
The railroad system
What happened at Seneca Falls New York in 1848?
Women’s rights convention
What was the peculiar institution?
Slavery
What was the American colonization Society found for?
Transporting freed slaves back to Africa and putting them in Liberia
Who was the best known transcendentalist and was born in Boston in 1803?
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Was Emerson Pro or against abolition?
He was for the abolition of slavery
Where did most slaves live?
Large plantations
Who led an 1800 slave insurrection and where did it happen?
It was led by a slave named Gabriel in Richmond Virginia
Who was the leader of the 1831 insurrection that slaughtered about 60 Virginians?
Nat Turner.
Who was Lyman Beecher?
Leader of the lane theological seminary in Cincinnati and father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catherine Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher.
What were the jobs of the Beecher children?
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a novelist
Catherine Beecher was a reformer
Henry Ward Beecher was a preacher for abolition
Who said “I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice….I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – and I WILL BE HEARD!
William Lloyd Garrison
What major newspaper was published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston?
The liberator
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
A reformer who was highly against slavery
Who was Sojourner Truth
also known simply as “Isabel, “she held audiences spellbound with a deep, resident voice and the religious passion with which he condemned the sin of slavery
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Born a slave in Maryland, Douglass escape to the north and making the most prominent in the black abolitionists. Gifted as an orator , writer, and editor, he continued to battle for the right of his people after emancipation. The end of the distinguished career he served as US Minister to Haiti.
Why was Texas so important?
European countries wanted Texas to remain independent state to keep the US refined to the southern border.
How did the Mexican war start?
American blood on American soil. Mexican troops across the Rio Grande general Taylor’s command with the loss of 16 Americans
What were the outcomes of the treaty with Mexico that end of the Mexican war.
It gave America Texas in the area west to California and Oregon and the ocean and bracing California. United States paid $15 million the land.
What was the Wilmont proviso?
A document introduced by David Wilmot of Pennsylvania that said slavery should never exist in the territories that they got from Mexico.
What years were the gold rush?
1848-1849
Who led a slave insurrection 1822 and where?
Denmark vesey in Charleston, South Carolina
What was the decision about the Dred Scott case?
Black people had no rights which white men had to follow and therefore slavery was legal everywhere in the United States. This is known as one of the worst decisions of the Supreme Court.
Who was Rev. Elijah P Lovejoy?
He was a preacher that asailed slavery, impugned the chastity of Catholic women and was killed by a mob in 1837 becoming the ############# martyr abolitionist##################
What were Polks goals as president?
A lower tariffs, restoration of the independent treasury, acquisition of California, settling the Oregon dispute
At what line did Polk agree to as the border for Oregon
49 parallel
What was the south given in the compromise of 1850?
Their manager of the Mexican session would be open to popular sovereignty, Texas would receive $10 million from the federal government of compensation, a more stringent fugitive slave law.
Did most white southerners own slave?
No. In 1850 only about one fourth of white southerners own slaves.
What was the underground railroad
The virtual freedom train that consisted of an informal chain of stations through which slaves were conducted
What two important senators advocated for another compromise before 1850?
Clay and Calhoun
What was given to the north and the compromise of 1850?
California as a free state, territory disputed by Texas New Mexico would be given to New Mexico, abolition of slave trade in the District of Columbia
What was the Kansas Nebraska act?
An act that would prepare Kansas and Nebraska to enter as states both being allowed to choose whether they had slaves are not.
Who wrote uncle Tom’s cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who said the famed seventh of March speech?
Daniel Webster
What was the Ostend manifesto?
designed by American ministers in Spain England and France who all meant in Belgium and created a plan that if Spain refused $120 million offer for Cuba, America would be able to take it
What was the Gadsden purchase?
a treaty in 1853 which seceded to United States an area south of New Mexico to the United States for $10 million
Who said “they had for more than a century before being regarded as beings of an inferior order; and although unfit to sushi with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far feeling that they had no rights which the white man it was bound to respect… The opinion was at the time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race.” And after what event was it said?
Chief Justice Roger B Taney and after the Dred Scott case
What was the Crittenden compromise?
Slave outlawed above 36 30 but federally protected underneath.
Who are the two Democratic presidential nominees in 1860 election?
Breckenridge and Douglas
What did John Brown do?
Let the massacre at Pottawatomie and the attack at harper ferry. We was eventually hung by southerners become a martyr for the northern abolition cause.
Who was the presidential candidate for the know nothing party?
Millard Fillmore.
Who did the no nothing party?
Foreigners and Catholics.
Levi coffin, lane theological seminary , the Beecher family, and the Underground Railroad all had connections to what major city?
Cincinnati
What does Lincoln say during one of those debates with Douglas?
He says that while he thinks African-Americans are inferior, he does believe that they deserve the same rights as white man
Who won the presidential election of 1860?
Lincoln
Who are the four presidential candidates in 1860?
Lincoln, Breckenridge, Bell, Douglas
An abolitionist clergymen from Alton Illinois, owned a printing press, held as the martyr abolitionist, and his assassins were freed from local authorities all describe who?
Elijah p lovejoy
Did most immigrants stay in the north east or south?
Northeast
Who are the presidential nominees in the 1856 election? And was the party?
John C Fremont – republican
Millard Fillmore – no nothing
James Buchanon – Democrat
Who was the main force behind the kids Nebraska act and what you was it past?
It was led by Douglass and passed in 1854
The theme of individualism is most evident in the writings of who?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why was the Mexican war of 1846 fought?
To conquer the territories in the Southwest like New Mexico and California
