Ch12-15 Semester Test Flashcards
What did Franklin Pierce become in 1853?
President
Enslaved African American who rebelled
May turner
What Senate race in 1858 Was the center of national attention?
Illinois
Who was not a presidential candidate in 1860?
John C. Calhoun
What plan specified that slavery should not be prohibited in any Lands that might be acquired from Mexico?
Wilmer Proviso
What act made it to where a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitives?
Fugitive slave act
What was the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery?
Kansas
What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more?
Dred Scott case
Douglas’s stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders rights came to be known as?
The Freeport doctrine
The 1860 presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most southern states was?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the senator from Kentucky to try to save the union by proposing a last-minute compromise?
John Crittenden
What network, which helps runaway slaves to escape, was established in opposition to the fugitive slave act?
The underground railroad
Repealed the Missouri compromise
Kansas-Nebraska act
Who won 1848 presidential election?
Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay’s plan?
The compromise of 1850
Wrote civil disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Ruled on the Dred Scott decision
Roger B. Taney
Steven Douglas’s response to slavery
Freeport doctrine
Proposed Missouri compromise
Henry Clay
Formed on February 4, 1861
Confederacy
Violent abolitionist
John Brown
Opponent of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen a. Douglas
First Attack of the Civil War
Sumter
Letting the people decide
Popular sovereignty
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Propposed amendments to protect slavery
John Crittenden
Justification for the South seceding
States’s rights
A community based in a vision of a perfect society is called?
Utopia
Who was the leader of educational reform?
Horace Mann
The first college to admit both African Americans and women was?
Oberlin college
Writers Margaret fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau were?
Transendentalists
Who wrote uncle tom’s cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The first white abolitionist to call for “immediate and complete emancipation” of enslaved people was?
William Lloyd garrison
The first women’s rights convention was held in?
New York
Women fighting to end slavery recognized their own oppression and formed the?
Women’s rights movement
Which was the first state to grant women the right to vote?
Wyoming
In the 1800s there was a wave of religious fervor known as the?
Second great awakening
What movement called for drinking little or no alcohol ?
Temperance
Who began the crusade against the use of alcohol?
Lyman Beecher
Who wrote the narrative poem song of Hiawatha?
Henry wadsworth Longfellow
Who constructed the first mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
Who wrote seemingly simple, deeply personal poems?
Emily Dickinson
The network of escape routes out of the south for enslaved people was the?
Underground Railroad
Who was the most famous Underground Railroad conductor?
Harriet Tubman
The most controversial issue at the Seneca falls convention concerned?
Suffrage
Who graduated first in the class and gained fame as a doctor after being repeatedly turned down for admission to medical school?
Elizabeth Blackwell
Frontier camp meetings
Revivals
Arriving between 1820 and 1860, the second largest group of immigrants was from
Germany
Reformed care for mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
North Star editor
Fredrick Douglas
Runaway slave escape route
Underground Railroad
The right to vote
Suffrage
Practiced civil disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Wrote uncle tom’s cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Demanded women suffrage
Elizabeth cady Stanton
Called for by Susan b. Anthony
Coeducation
Site of the first women’s’ rights convention
Seneca falls, New York
Perfect society
Utopia
Founder of Troy female seminary
Emma Willard
Drinking little or no alcohol
Temperance
Founder of mount Holyoke
Mary Lyon
What was the name of the former slave who attracted huge crowds to hear her eloquent speeches?
Sojourner truth
By 1860, the Midwest and the east were united by a network of
Railroad tracks
With workers of the same skills, workers formed
Trade unions
The demand for cotton from the south came from
Europe
Who purchased his freedom from the slaveholder he had fled?
Fredrick Douglass
What large group of southerners owned small farms of about 50 to 200 acres?
Yeomen
What transformed trade in the nation’s interior?
Railways
Many immigrants lived in
Slums
To put pressure on employers, workers staged
Strikes
Many immigrants from which country became servants and factory workers?
Ireland
The largest group of whites in the south were
Yeomen
What group of southerners measured their wealth partly by the number of enslaved people they controlled
Plantation owners
Enslaved people needed an extended family as a measure of security because they
Could be sold
What made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write?
Slave codes
Built first United States steam locomotive
Peter copper
Transmitted first telegraph message
Samuel morse
Members of the know nothing party
Nativists
Increased cotton processing
Cotton gin
A form of loan
Credit
The north’s main income
Industry
The south’s main income
Regular expenses
Plantation manager
Overseer
Refusal to work
Strike
Formed American party
Nativists
Grew sugarcane
Deep South
Extreme shortage of food
Famine
Produced tobacco
Upper south
What was the last country to challenge the U.S’s control of Oregon?
Britain
What allowed people from both Britain and the United States to settle in Oregon country
Joint occupation
Mountain men made their living as
Fur trappers
Who was not killed at the battle of the Alamo?
Sam Houston
What was the third part of James K Polk’s war plan?
To capture Mexico City
Cmdr. in chief of the Texas forces was
Sam Houston
Founded by the Mormons, which city was originally called Desiree?
Salt Lake City
Reports of what persuaded many Americans to settle in Oregon country?
Fertile lands
Santa Anna was captured in the battle of
San Jacinto
What did the United States insist was the border between the United States and Mexico?
Rio grande
What town in California was seized by a small group and renamed the bear flag Republic?
Sonoma
Which people made huge profits during the goldrush?
Merchants
What event ended in a few years but had long-lasting effects on California’s economy?
Gold rush
Who led the Mormon migration to the great Salt Lake area?
Brigham young
Green River Explorer
Jim beckenwourth
Way to Oregon country
Oregon trail
Commander in chief of Texas forces
Sam Houston
William becknell’s route
Santa Fe trail
Huge Mexican properties
Ranchos
Mountain man turned guide
Kit Carson
Ordered Texans execution
Antonio lópez de Santa Anna
Mexican ranch owners
Rancheros
Mexicans living in California
Californios
Flourished during the goldrush
San Francisco
Stephen Austin
Empresario
Mormon land in Utah
Deseret
Took the law into their own hands
Vigilantes
Official order
Decree
Gold seekers
Forty-niners
Which party endorsed the Wilmont proviso?
Free-soil
Why was admission of Missouri as a slave state controversial in the Senate?
It would upset the balance of slave and free states
Liberia
“Place of freedom”
What did the enforcement of the fugitive slave lead to?
More anger in the north
