Apush 4 Flashcards
1840s and 50s
expansion westward, mainfest destiny, nationalism, popilaion in, tech adv. (slavery)
texas 1820-1830s
mexico want settelers (not populated). Austin bought some families there. US migrate, more US than ME
causes of texas rebel
1829: ME stoped slavery and requre catholic conversion and stoped immingration (US ignored) and resistance
change in gov- Lopez (dctator) n end fed gov and force laws on texas
causes of texas rebel pt.2
1836 Houston revolt n decleared indep. Mexico killed some town. Battle San Jancinto Riv: US caught sana anna and forced treaty for indep (north rio grande), M legis reject
texas annex
P. Jackson n Buren declined bc slave there and threat of war
P. TYler (S) 1840) wanted bc brit infleunce on it. senate no
Main boundary disute Aroostook war 1840
bte lumbermen-fighting. neogitated treaty (Webster-Ashburton Treaty) and settle minnesota bound
Oregon boundary
Brit: Hudson Fur Company
US: c;aim discovered by US, Lewis n Clark
Oregon fever
missionary n farmer fertile vally
election 1844
Buren - no annex texas (NOrth whig) vs Calhoun
stalemate. dem wanted dark hourse (lesser known P) called Polk. Clay changed mind and lost vote
Polk 1840s
expansion and manifest
annexing texas
tyler wanted it- congr- joint resoltion (majority in eac house)
Oregon
divided btw brit n US
Mexico war
polk, send Sidell to get ME to sell LA and NM and settle texas border. failed.
ME: border at Nueces
US: rio grande
CAuses of ME war
polk order army to Rio grande, ME army crossed and killed someppl. Polk used it to justiy war. North whig opposed (Lincoln) approved war
during ME war
in ME teritory, mexico city captured, US small armies
Consequence of ME war- end 1848
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
rio grand border
us take LA n NM (mexican cession), us paid 15mil back
whig opposed it (slavery)
S dem: wanted all of ME, S wanted latin and cuba/plantation
increased NS tension
wilmot proviso
during ME war,
wilmot propose that his bills (forbid slavery in new territories from ME) passed house but not senate
ostend Manifesto
polk offered to buy Cuba from spain but no, some US tried to take it by forced but failed. !850 P.Pierce send dipolmate to negoitate with spain over cuba, manufest leaked and antislavery angry, droped cuba
walker expedition
tried to take Baja California n S nicaragia (proslavery central america wanted) but dfeated by central A countries
clayton-Bulwer treaty 1850
wanted to biuld cnal through centralA, brit wanted to do it too, us and brit treaty+ no one will take control over fututre canals here
gadsden purchase
P.Pierce: added land to southwest for railroads sold from Mexico
1870
us purchesed alaska
after getting oregon and LA 1850s-1860s
us migrated, land btw misis and pacific: Great American Desert (not settled)
mtn men 50-70
fur trader, far west, provided info about trials and frontier conditions
overland trials 50-70
poinerrs made journies to clear forest in La n oregon. there were trialed ofr them (oregon, sanata fe, and mormon) harsh journey
mining 50-70
gold in california- migrations (from everywhere-china) to west. other gold/silver rushes in other west territories. bought ppl west and town set up
farming
move west to farm and home (rich ppl) middle class, isolatedm communities developed
congress Preemtion Acts 30-40
squatters can settle public land for low prices from gov
Urban 50-70
west citites from bc railroad mine n farm.
san fransciso/denver bc rushes
growth econ 40-60
factory textile mills spread to northeast from brit. -railroads
howe invented sewing
morse-telegraph
40s-50s railroads
expand rail lines northeast n midwest, biggest industry, gov heped. illinois central railroad-fed grant, promote west afri
agri growth- west grain n south cotton
growth manufactured goods
large grouth export/imports
us expanded trade 1850s
whale boom (oil)
improve shop design- clipper ship fast
steamship then took over clipper (storage)
us got japan to open ports for us treaty
panic 1857
prices farmersdroped and unemply increased in north
south unaffected
causes of conflice NS
slavery
constitutional disputes
econ differences
politics
50-60
sectionalism intense
freesoil party
north dem/whig want wilmote proviso
abolitionist.
this party are north who don’t want slav in new territ and allow free land to farmer and intern improve
antislavery whig and demo
popular soverighnty
cass, dem
squatter: compromise
election 1848
taylor won for whig
compromise 1850
LA drafted constit baned slave. P.Talyor supported (NM free too). some radicals wanted secession S. clay compromise
- ca free
- divide left mexican cession into utah n NM and allow opoular soverighnty
- ban slave trade is capital
- adopt fugitive slave law
50-54 fugitive slave act
track down slaves in the north and send them back to owners
underground railroad 50s
free blacks n abolitionis help escaped slave reahc north/cansada
books on slavery 50-54
uncle tom’s cabin: about slave and owner, antisalvery- cruelty
impending crisis of the south: stat show slavery weakiened econ
south’s slave justification
positive fir slave and masterer, bible, wage workers like slave but slave is better
election 1852- demo n whig weakened
whig-ignored slavery, focused on internal improv but did not work, party almost broke apart
demo: pierce, support fugivie law
Kansas nebraska act 1854
douglas senator wanted to build railroad and west settlement n win south approv for a transcontinental railroad. s wanted it to be more in the south. doughlas passed bill to divide territy into kansas and nebraska-popular soverighnty. doesn’t fit missouri compromise. was into law
bleeding kansas 50
antislave farmer there, slavowners came too. Free soilers: NE emigrant aid compnay paid for transportation aniti to kan. fihting broke out. 2 legilaroe, pro destroyed homes and killed, anti kiled
SUMNER56
VIOLENCE JANSAS to senate, sumner attacked demo (esp butler) butler’s nephew beat sumner
know nothing party 50
oppose catholic n immigrants in north, weakened whig, lost influence
republican 50
bc kannebract free soiler and antislav whig/demo, no spread of slavery. want repeal of kansas nebras n fugitive slave. abolitionist joined