19th Century (1800's) America: Religion, Life, Culture

Question 1

Infrastructure

Answer 1

transportation and infrastructure created a growing american economy
(roads, railroads, telegraph)

Question 2

2nd Great Awakening

Answer 2

Religious leaders tried to increase attendance after church attendance began to decline
-preached to a diverse crowd
-Displayed western expansion in cultural development
-New infrastructure allowed reachers to move around

Question 3

What happened with slavery with the westward expansion?

Answer 3

Expanded with the expansion of cotton
-blacks advocated for their freedom
-Close ties between women’s rights and anti slavery movements b/c both lacked rights and wanted representation

Question 4

Who was Frederick Douglass and what did he do?

Answer 4

Freed slave who gave a speech to sate that America is not truly a “free country” because the unalienable rights given to citizens were not extended to black Americans

Question 5

David Walker

Answer 5

Believed that African Americans directly built America to what it is. Therefore, it is more their land than white people’s
-Opposes AA’s being moved to Liberia, a country they do not have a claim to
-Hypocrisy of owning slaves while being actively religious

Question 6

Compromise of 1850

Answer 6

debate whether slavery should exist results in CA being admitted as a free state
-Fugitive slave law created: required slaves to be returned to their owners even if it was a free state

Question 7

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Answer 7

a violent slave rebellion in VA (1831) showed the retaliation by killing enslavers and freeing slaves

Question 8

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 8

Written by John Quincy Adams and James Monroe to address Europe saying they wouldn’t tolerate any more control over them/wanted independence

Question 9

Manifest Destiny

Answer 9

ideology that Americans had to move west for territorial expansion because it was their “god-given” mission

Question 10

Cherokee Petition Protesting Removal (1836)

Answer 10

Document advocating a right to their land because they lost it due to the westward expansion
-US gov didn’t care and forced them out o f land

Question 11

Trail of Tears (131)

Answer 11

Native Americans (Cherokee nation) forced to give up lands east of Mississippi River
-deadly walk that resulted in many Cherokees dying due to hunger, disease, and exhaustion

Question 12

How did the transcontinental railroad affect Native Americans?

Answer 12

It took moved them again, took their land, and killed buffalo (food source)

Question 13

Compromise of 1850 and results

Answer 13

debate over where slavery should exist results in CA being admitted as a free state
1. CA admitted as a free state
2. Fugitive slave law
3. Mexican cession divided into New Mexico and Utah without mention of slavery

Question 14

Dred Scott

Answer 14

An enslaved man who called out Lincoln for being anti-slavery yet not seeing black people as equals

Question 15

The emancipation proclamation

Answer 15

Declared by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that only freed slaves held in confederate states

Question 16

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 16

US army brutally attacked and killed innocent Cheyenne and Arapaho Native Americans in 1864
-came about due to western expansion and debate for land

Question 17

Reconstruction: the south in 1865

Answer 17

Question of how to integrate newly freed african americans into social, political, and labor systems
-Goals to politically and economically reorganize the South

Question 18

13th Amendment

Answer 18

Outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude in the US in 1865

Question 19

Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865

Answer 19

Sought to establish free labor system & economy in the south
-established schools, aid to poor, mediating disputes

Question 20

14th amendment

Answer 20

Granted citizenship and equal rights to african american and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the civil war
-1866

Question 21

15th amendment

Answer 21

Voting rights for citizens cannot be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude
-1869

Question 22

Declaration of sentiments

Answer 22

1848, Seneca Falls. Written to compare and contrast women and men’s rights to show unfairness and inequality
-advocated for women’s rights and brought attention to the issue