3rd Nine Weeks Study Guide Flashcards
Harriet Beecher Stowe
wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
John Brown
Extreme abolitionist, killed 5 people to avenge the Sack of Lawrence.Had a plan to inspire slaves to fight for freedom. Brown and several white and black men attacked a US Marine arsenal to capture weapons and supply a slave revolt.The attack failed and John Brown was captured and hanged for murder and treason. Southerners were outraged by his actions, Northerners praised his deeds.
Dred Scott
Sued for his freedom in Supreme Court, ruled that he had no rights
Abraham Lincoln
Republican party’s new leader,against slavery, presidential candidate in 1860
Stephen Douglas
was in charge of winning passage of the bill as the Democratic presidential party “whip”.
Charles Sumner
gave an anti-slavery speech in Congress, packed with insults including making fun of senator from South Carolina
Man in debate who was against nullification
Webster
Proposed a compromise tariff and ended crisis in 1833
Henry Clay
Idea that states can reject federal laws
Nullification
Indian who lead a group that won against US several times
Osceola
Nationalist turned sectionalist, Jackson’s VP
Calhoun
Parties use rumors and lies to attack each other
Mudslinging
Presidents give positions to those that support them
Spoils system
Removal Act 1830
Gave Jackson right to negotiate resettlement treaties, gave state’s the right to make laws for their territory
Jacksonian Democracy
3rd parties- Federalists died out, smaller parties form
State and local- state and local officials are elected
Campaigning- presidential candidate have national campaigns run by party
First 7 states that seceded
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida,Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Texas
Crittenden Plan
Last plan to prevent secession, wasn´t passed
Abolition
To remove slavery
Popular sovereignty
Allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories
Biggest issue that divided north and south
Slavery
Compromise of 1850
To appease the South, Congress will have no laws regarding slavery in any territory won from Mexico. And would pass a stronger law to help slave owners recapture runaway slaves.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created Nebraska and Kansas territories, removed 36 30 line,Allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories
Wilmot Proviso
stated that slavery would be outlawed in any territory the United States might acquire from the War with Mexico.
Free soil Party
formed to stop the spread of slavery into the new territories
Republican party
was formed in reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Was created from the Northern Whigs, Free-Soilers and a few Northern Democrats who opposed slavery.
Fugitive Slave Act
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.
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
1858 Republican Abe Lincoln ran against Democrat Stephen A. Douglas for the Illinois US Senate seat.Lincoln believed slavery should not be expanded.Douglas (Little Giant) argued slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty.Douglas won the debate but Lincoln made a name for him and his new party.
Bleeding Kansas
Proslavery and antislavery settlers rushed into the Kansas Territory (1855).5000 proslavery Missourians voted illegally giving legislative power in Kansas to the proslavery group.Antislavery settlers boycotted and created their own government.A proslavery mob attacked and destroyed Lawrence Kansas, killing antislavery members and murdered 7 proslavery neighbors.
Harper’s Ferry
John Brown and several white and black men attacked a US Marine arsenal to capture weapons and supply a slave revolt.Southerners were outraged by his actions, Northerners praised his deeds.
Correct order of events: Wilmot Proviso Secession of South Carolina Republican Party Abraham Lincoln becomes president Free Soil Party
Wilmot Proviso Free Soil Party Rupublican Party Lincoln becomes president South Carolina Secedes
Founder of the first American colony in Texas
Stephen Austin
First president of the Republic of Texas
Sam Houston
Leader of Mormon church after Joseph Smith died
Brigham Young
Opened Santa Fe Trail
William Henderson
Treaty that ended war with Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Battle where Texas won its independence
San Jacinto
Religious group that settled in Utah
Mormon
Belief that US was destined to expand from sea to sea
Manifest Destiny
Land bought for $10 million from Mexico for transcontinental railroad
Gadsden Purchase
3 results of the treaty that ended the war with Mexico
Texas became part of US
Rio Grande border
US pays Mexico $15 million
Push factors of immigration
Religious and political turmoil, population growth, crop failure, Industrial Revolution, Agricultural changes
Pull factors of immigration
Abundant land, economic opportunity, Freedom
Wrote the first detective story
Edgar Allan Poe
Wrote Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Founder of Hudson River School
Asher Durand
Wrote about simple life at Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau
Group with goal of restricting immigrants influence
Nativist
Person who leaves a country
Emigrant
Person who enters a country
Immigrant
Belief that people find the truth within themselves
Transcedentalist
Henry Clay
Created the plan to settle the California problem. Great Compromiser.
Leader of opportunities for the blind
Samuel G Howe
Leader of opportunities for deaf
Thomas H Gallaudet
Leader of education
Horace Mann
Leader of asylums and prisons
Dorothea Dix
Printed abolitionist pamphlet and appealed to colored citizens of the world
David Walker
Published Liberator, calling for abolition
William Garrison
