3rd Nine Weeks Flashcards
Proposed a compromise tariff and ended the crisis in 1833, known as the great compromise
Henry clay
The idea that states can reject federal laws
Nullification
Indian who led a group that defeated the US army several times
Osceola
Nationalist who later defended sectionalism and was jacksons Vice President
John c Calhoun
Parties use tumors and lies to attack each other during political campaigns
Mudslinging
Presidents give people key positions in their administration of the supported them
Spoils system
Describe the Indian removal act of 1830
A. Gave Jackson the right to negotiate moving Indians to reserved territory
B. Jackson believed it would allow the natives to keep their way of life and would allow Americans to get the land they wanted
Describe 3 parts of the legacy of the Jacksonian democracy
A. State and local- a larger number of state and local officials were elected rather than appointed
B. Campaigning- presidential candidates now had to conduct national campaigns. Large political parties were needed to organize them
C. Popular election- in the election of 1812, only South Carolina used the old system by which presidential electors were chosen by state legislature
Founder of the first American colony in Texas
Stephen F. Austin
First president of the republic of Texas
Sam Houston
Leader of the Mormon church after Joseph smith died
Brigham young
Opened the Santa Fe trail
William becknell
Treaty that ended the war between the US and Mexico
Treaty of Guadeloupe hidalgo
Last battle between Mexico and Texas where Texans won independence
Battle of San jacinto
Religious group that settled in Utah
Mormons
Belief that the US was sure to expand from sea to sea
Manifest destiny
Land bought for 10 million from Mexico for a transcontinental railroad
Gadsden purchase
Name three results of the treaty that ended the war with Mexico
Recognized Texas as part of the US
Made rio grande river the border between Texas and Mexico
United States had to pay Mexico 15 million for land
Push factors
Religious and political turmoil Population growth Crop failures Industrial revolution Agricultural changes
Pull factors
Abundant land
Economic opportunity
Freedom
Wrote the first detective story
Edgar Allen Poe
Wrote moby dick
Herman Melville
Founder of the Hudson River school of painting
Asher Durand
Wrote about the simple life at walden pond
Henry David Thoreau
Opportunities for blind people
Thomas Gallaudet
Education
Horace Mann
Asylums and prisons
Dorothea Dix
Spoke in public about personal witness of slavery and became and abolitionist
Angelina Gremke
Famous abolitionist who lectured about his experience as a slave
Frederick Douglas
Escaped slave who repeatedly risked life to help other slaves escape along the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
African American woman who spoke out publicly against slavery and leader in struggle for women’s rights
Sojourner truth
Organized Seneca falls convention in 1848
Elizabeth Stanton
Worked in temperance and antislavery movements and built women’s movement into a national organization
Susan b Anthony
Person who leaves a country
Emigrant
Someone who comes to a country
Immigrant
Group with goal of restricting the influence of immigrants in the US
Nativists
Belief that people find truth within themselves through feeling and intuition
Transcendentalists
2 transcendentalists
Henry David Thoreau and Emerson
Created the plan to settle the California problem
Compromise of 1850
Henry clay
Was in charge of winning passage of the bill as Democratic Party “Whig”
Stephen Douglas
Wrote uncle toms cabin in 1852 to potty slavery as brutal and immoral; start of events that led to the civil war
Harriet beecher Stowe
Murdered five people because of their pro Alavert views and turned some people against the abolitionist movement
John brown
- Senator of Massachusetts who gave anti slavery speech in congress, packed with insults
- was beaten with a cane because of his speech and it took him three and a half years to recover
Charles sumner
First presidential candidate for Republican Party
John Fremont
Was taken into a free state and back to a slave state and sued for his freedom
Fred Scott
The republican candidate of the election of 1860 who wanted to stop the spread of slavery
Abraham Lincoln
Stated that slavery would be outlawed in any territory the US might acquire from war with Mexico
Wilmot proviso
States California would be admitted as a free state and the slave trade would be abolished in DC
Compromise of 1850
Made it illegal to help runaway slaves
They had to help catch them
Fugitive slave act
Allowed settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Formed in reaction to the Kansas Nebraska act and was created from northern Whigs, free soilers, and a few northern democrats who opposed slavery
Republican Party
Lincoln argued that a house divided against itself cannot stand
Douglas won the debate that slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty
Lincoln-Douglas debate
Brown and several white and black men attacked a US marines Arsenal to capture weapons and supply slave revolt but it failed and John brown was hanged
Harper’s ferry
Man in debate who was against nullification
Daniel Webster
Political theory Southerners used to justify withdrawing from the Union
States rights
Biggest Issue that Divided the North and South
Compromise of 1850
Allowed settler to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories
Popular sovereignty
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
First seven states that seceded
The right to vote in political elections
Suffrage
The idea of abolishing slavery
Abolition
Formed to stop the spread of slavery into the new territories
Free soil party
Correct order of events
Wilmot Proviso Free Soil Party Republican Party Abraham Lincoln becomes President Secession of South Carolina
Bleeding Kansas
an alternative, anti-slavery government was set up in Lawrence, Kansas.
Proslavery forces attacked because they saw it as an illegal government.
A proslavery mob attacked and destroyed lawrence kansas, killing anti slavery members
Crittenden plan-
