Era 5 Review

Question 1

Sam Houston

Answer 1

led Texans in an attack on the Mexican army & in 18 min whipped out half

Question 2

Stephen Austin

Answer 2

received a grant of land from the Mexican government and brought 297 families within him

Question 3

James K Polk

Answer 3

• 11 president

- wanted to add more territory to the United States

Question 4

Zachary Taylor

Answer 4

-12 president and favored popular sovereignty

Question 5

James Marshall

Answer 5

discovered gold at Sutters Mill

Question 6

Millard Fillmore

Answer 6

13th president, last member of Whig Party

Question 7

The Wilmot Proviso

Answer 7

• called for slavery to be outlawed in all new states admitted to America
• never passed but showed who supported and who didn’t (slavery)

Question 8

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 8

• recognized Texas as part of the US and established the Rio Grande as Mexican - American border

Question 9

3 settlements established en route to California

Answer 9

• Santa Fe in New Mexico
• Mormon Trail in Utah
• Oregon Trail in Oregon

Question 10

4 main parts of the Compromise of 1850

Answer 10

• admitted California as a free state
• Utah and Mexico decided on popular sovereignty
• stronger fugitive slave laws
• banned slave trade in DC

Question 11

What were the main problems Americans had w living in Texas?

Answer 11

• didn’t want to follow mexican laws
• they didn’t like official documents being written in Spanish
• Mexican law abolished slavery
• didn’t want to convert to Catholicism

Question 12

John Brown

Answer 12

believed God chose him to fight slavery

Question 13

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 13

founded the liberator, am anti-slavery newspaper

Question 14

Jefferson Davis

Answer 14

president of Confederacy

Question 15

Clara Barton

Answer 15

a Union nurse and cared for the sick/wounded at Antitam

Question 16

John Crittenden

Answer 16

made an attempt at avoiding secession but the south refused

Question 17

“Carpetbaggers”

Answer 17

Northerners who moved into the South to run for office

Question 18

“Scalawags”

Answer 18

Southerners who joined the Republican party

Question 19

Radical Republicans plans for Reconstruction

Answer 19

• extended period of of military rule

- African Americans would be free to exercise civil rights, become educated, and receive land

Question 20

Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction

Answer 20

• disenfranchisement of all former leaders/ officeholders in the Confederacy
• also applied to confederate w $20,000 in taxable property

Question 21

Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction

Answer 21

• presidential Pardons will be granted to Confederates who took an oath of allegiance
• excepted the emancipation of slaves
• 10% of the state had to swear loyalty in order to become part of the union

Question 22

Congress’ plan for reconstruction

Answer 22

• wanted 50 % of voters fo swear loyalty of the Union

- permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution

Question 23

explain the know-nothing party

Answer 23

• formed by Nativists (favoring native born americans over immigrants)
• anti-Catholic
• split on the issue of slavery

Question 24

explain the compromise of 1877

Answer 24

• all troops must be removed from Southern states
• Hayes had to appoint a democrat to his cabinet
• approval of 2nd transcontinental railroad
• industrialization of the south

Question 25

US vs Reese

Answer 25

poll taxes & literacy tests cause they didn’t want blacks to vote

Question 26

US vs. Cruikshanks

Answer 26

- stated that the 15 didn’t prevent citizens from infringing on the rights of others - protected groups like the KKK