3rd Nine Weeks Study Guide Flashcards
Population growth and crowding
Push
Abundant land
Pull
Crop failures
Push
Industrial revolution
Push
Economic opportunity
Pull
Agricultural changes
Push
Freedom
Pull
Religious and political turmoil
Push
Wrote the first detective story
Edgar Allan Poe
Wrote Moby dick
Herman Melville
Founder of the Hudson river school of painting
John James Audubon
Wrote about simple life at Waldenpond
Henry David Thoreau
Opportunities for blind people
Samuel G. How’s
Opportunities for deaf people
Thomas H Gallaudet
Education
Horace Mann
Asylums and prisons
Dorthea Dix
African-American woman who spoke out publicly against slavery and leader in struggle for women’s rights
So joiner truth
Worked in the temperance and anti-slavery movement and build the women’s movement international organization
Susan B Anthony
Spoke in public about personal witness of slavery; became an abolitionist
Angelina Grimke
Famous abolitionist who lectured about his experience as a slave
Frederick Douglass
Escape slaves who repeatedly risked life to help others slaves is scape along the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
Organized the Seneca Falls convention in 1848
Elizabeth Stanton
A person who leaves a country
Emigrant
Person who comes into a country
Immigrant
Group with goal of restricting the influence of immigrants in the US
Nativists
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
Open to the Santa Fe Trail
William Beckall
Treaty that ended the war between the United States and Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Last battle between Mexico and Texas were taxes wanted independence
Battle of San Jacinto
Religious group that settled in Utah
Mormons
Believe that the United States was sure to expand from sea to shining sea
Manifest destiny
Land bought for $10 million from Mexico for a transcontinental railroad
Gadsden purchase
Recognized Texas as a part of the US, recognize the Rio Grande River as the border between Texas and Mexico, pay 15 million for land, page $3.25 million for claims Americans had against Mexicans, Protect 80,000 Mexicans living in Texas in the Mexican Cession
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Man in debate who is against notification
Webster
Proposed a compromise tariff in into the crisis in 1833; the great compromiser
Henry Clay
The idea that states can reject federal laws
Nullification
Nationalist you later defended sectionalism (Jackson’s vice President)
John C Calhoun
Parties use rumors and lies to attack each other during political campaigns
Mudslinging
Presidents give people keep positions in their administration if they supported them
Spoils system
Gave Andrew Jackson the power to negotiate treaties with the Native Americans, gave the states the power to make laws that govern the Indian territory
Indian removal act
stated that slavery would be outlawed in any territory the US might acquire from the War with Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
To appease the south, congress will not make any laws regarding slavery in any territory won from Mexico and would pass a stronger law to help slave owners recapture runaway slaves. To please the north, California would be admitted as a free state, the slave trade would be abolished in Washington DC
Compromise of 1850
created the plan to settle the California problem
Henry Clay
was in charge of winning passage of the bill as the Democratic party “whip”
Stephen Douglas
made it illegal to assist or help runaway slaves. Suspected fugitive, or runaway, slaves could be held without a warrant. No right to a jury trial so many free blacks were captured and taken back to the south
fugitive slave act
created territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories - popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed into the kansas territory. 5000 proslavery missourians voted illegally giving legislative power in kansas to the proslavery group. Anti-slavery settlers boycotted and created their own government
Bleeding Kansas
to avenge the sack of lawrence, he attacked. he murdered 5 people because of their pro-slavery views. Called Pottawatomie Massacre. He turned people against the abolitionist movement
John Brown
gave an anti-slavery speech in congress, packed with insults including making fun of senator from south carolina. he used insults and verbally attacked South Carolina Senator AP Butler
Charles Sumner
formed in reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854. The party was created from the Northern Whigs, Free-Soilers and a few Northern Democrats who opposed slavery. Its goal was to oppose the spread of slavery.
Republican Party
1st presidential candidate for the Republican Party
John Fremont
formed to stop the spread of slavery into the new territories. Their motto was “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men”.
Free-Soil Party
sued for his freedom
Dred Scott
Douglas Won this debate but Lincoln made a name for him and his party
Lincoln-Douglass Debate
stated “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” He did not want to abolish slavery, he just wanted to prevent it from spreading.
Abraham Lincoln
John brown and several white and black men attacked a US Marine arsenal to capture weapons and supply a slave revolt. This attack failed and John Brown was captured and hanged for murder and treason.
Harpers Ferry Attack of 1859
first seven states to secede
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
what was the right to vote
suffrage
the desire to get rid of slavery
abolition
letting the people choose how to govern their society
popular sovereignity
what was the biggest issue that divided the north and south in the 1850s
slavery and state’s rights
wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to portray slavery as brutal and immoral
Harriet Beecher Stowe
when the states wanted to be able to choose between slavery or no slavery, they also wanted to decide on their taxes on their own
States’ Rights
correct order of Republican Party, Wilmot Proviso, Abraham Lincoln becomes president, Secession of South Carolina, and Free Soil Party
Wilmot Proviso, Free Soil Party, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln becomes president, and South Carolina Secedes
