80-107 Flashcards
Battle during which 150 Texas fought a Mexican army of four 
Battle of the Alamo
Name three heroes in the battle of the Alamo
Sam Houston, David Crockett, William Travis 
War fought  over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico
The Mexican war 
General of the Mexican army
Santa Anna 
American general who defeated Santa Ana
Zachary Taylor 
American general who captured Mexico City
Winfield Scott
American Pioneer who Concord California
John C Fremont 
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico, and what was called upper California 
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 
Land purchased from Mexico in the west for building train routes to California
The Gadsden purchase 
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in history of the US
Daniel Webster 
Movement of many settlers to California, in hopes of becoming rich
The gold rush
Bill that inducted California as a free state, and allowed Utah and New Mexico territories to choose whether or not they would be free or slave states 
The compromise of 1850 
System of security transporting slave to Canada
The underground railroad
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freed
Harriet Tubman 
Author of uncle Tom’s cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe 
Slay who applied to Supreme Court for freedom
Dred scott
First date to succeed from the union 
South Carolina
Government established by the states that succeeded from the union
Confederacy 
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
States of the confederacy
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee 
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War
Fort Sumter 
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet 
Merrimac
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad
Monitor
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate army
Robert e lee 
Active President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the confederate states 
Emancipation proclamation
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg 
Commander and chief of the union army
Ulysses S Grant
Union General, who captured and burned Atlanta
William T Sherman 
Place where lee surrendered to Grant
Appomattox courthouse 
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth 
Liberty and Union now and forever, one and inseparable 
Daniel Webster 
Be sure you’re right and then go ahead
Davy Crockett
Slavery is in all probability the wedge which we will split up this union
John Quincy Adams 
If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard 
Abraham Lincoln
Sic semper tyrannies 
John Wilkes Booth
Speak softly and carry a big stick
Theodore Roosevelt
