American History 2 Midterm Study Guide Flashcards
What started the Compromise of 1820?
Missouri was admitted as a slave state (offset the balance)
What were the two parts of the Compromise of 1850?
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Created the 36 by 30 parallel which was an imaginary line any states above the line were free states and any states below were slave states.
What were the five main points of the Compromise of 1850?
Admitting California as a free state
- Created Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty
- Settled a texas New Mexico boundary dispute
- Ending the slave trade in Washington D.C.
- Set up stricter Fugitive Slave Laws
What were the four outcomes of the Fugitive Slave Laws?
Denied slaves the right to a jury trial
Forced citizens to assist southern slave owners in finding their runaway slaves
Freed slaves were being sent back to the south
Found slaves must be returned to their owners
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed slaves in seceded territories
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do? What idea did it set up?
Repealed the Missouri Compromise, and created two new territories.
Set up the idea of popular sovereignty when determining whether the state was a free or slave state
What happened during the election of 1860? How many votes did Lincoln receive?
Lincoln won by 40% (beat the other 3 candidates) South Carolina succeeded in the Union ( 7 other states followed)
What was the Reconstruction Era?
This task of rebuilding the former confederate states and readmitting them to the union was called reconstruction.
What was Lincoln’s view on punishing the South after the Civil War?
He did not want to!
What were the beliefs of the radical republican party after the Civil War?
- The abolishing of slavery
- The enlistment of black troops
- The total enfranchisement of freed slaves after the civil war.
(conservatives did not think freed slaves should have all of the rights)
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The goal of this organization was to help African Americans adjust to life after they had been freed.
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
What were the Black Codes? What were some examples of them?
The Black Codes were laws designed to help control newly freed African American people.
- Making it illegal for African Americans to own land or rent farms
- Made it easy for white employers to take advantage of African American workers.
- Allowed officers to arrest any African American who did not have jobs.
13th amendment
Abolishment of slavery
14th amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens.
15th amendment
African American men get the right to vote.
16th amendment
tax on income
17th amendment
direct election of senators
18th amendment
prohibition of alcohol
19th amedment
Women get the right to vote
What is sharecropping?
Sharecropping is a system of farming in which a farmer works the land for an owner who provides equipment and seed and receives a share of the crop.
Who was president after Grant?
Abraham Lincoln
What is segregation?
The separation of groups
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Gave us Texas and Mexico would agree to sell us California, Oregon, and Washington for 15 million.
What were boomtowns? What were some of the issues with them?
Towns that seemed to pop up overnight near these mining sites
1. They didn’t really have laws or law enforcement.
2. Most people who made money quickly would spend it or gamble it away.
3. Violence was common and lots of people carried guns and lots of cash everywhere they went.
4. In many of these boomtowns, once the gold or silver was gone, the population left as fast as they arrived.
