Final 150 Part 2 Flashcards
Election of 1800
As the first peaceful transition of political power between opposing parties in U.S. history
Louisiana Purchase
gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Expedition through the Louisiana territory to the Pacific Ocean.
Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake
Causes of war 1812
War Hawks from the War of 1812
Henry clay and john c Calhoun
War of 1812 – DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans
Causes were impressment of soilders and attack on Chesapeake
The Star Spangled Banner
Song made for the us flag
Monroe Doctrine
meant to stop European influence in the Americas
Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration
The potatos got a disease and they had to move because people who ate them were dying
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention
After She helped organize the world’s first women’s rights convention
Industrial Revolution
transition to new manufacturing processes
Capitalism
Economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners
Free Enterprise System
Govt makes few restrictions on businesses and is a “free market”
Supply and Demand
The amount of the thing u can buy
Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s
Cotten
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important
It made Cotten materials and important so it was quicker to sell or make things
Urban vs Rural
Urban is more cities and rural is more lower level of living
Wilderness Road
Road maid to make it easier to go thru mountains and opened the door to settlement
Daniel Boone
Long hunter and an American wilderness explorer
Cumberland Gap
Allowed for a path to be created in the Appalachian mountains
The Corrupt Bargain
When the 1824 election ended without any candidate receiving a majority votes
Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank
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Indian Removal Act
Had the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.
Trail of Tears
series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to Indian tritories
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith
William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
Had the shortest presidency term
Manifest Destiny
belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
Texas Rebellion
rebellion of colonists from the United States
The Alamo – battle significance
Many things were invented that we use now days
Davy Crockett
Frointeers man. Soilder. And politician
Oregon Trail
TRail used by a lot of a,American pioneers
James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?
The growth of America by 1/3
Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush
John Sutter’s land was where they first found gold which soonly turned into the California gold rush
Brigham Young
American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
John Brown
Violent abolitionist that beloved god sent him to end slavery
Harriet Tubman
Was a slave then escaped and is the leader of Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad
A network of passage ways used to free slaves as they escaped
Frederick Douglass
A-A social reformer
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Anti slave novel
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves
Kansas-Nebraska Act
allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
Bleeding Kansas
series of violent confrontations in the United States which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas
Sumner-Brooks Incident
Brooks attacked Sumner an abolitionist, with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia
Dred Scott v Sandford
Dread Scott was a slave and his owner was Sanford
Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech
Senate race in Illinois that became the center of national attention
Election of 1860
Lincoln becomes 16th president
Causes of the Civil War
States’ Rights.
Expansion.
Slavery.
Fort Sumter
In Charleston South Carolina notable for two battles of the American Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
Union leader
Robert E. Lee
Confederate leader
Stonewall Jackson
Considered one of the most gifted tactical commanders in us history
First Battle of Bull Run
also known as the First Battle of Manassas
Anaconda Plan
Union’s strategic plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War
54th Massachusetts
When blacks could fight in war
The Battle of Gettysburg
Union forces are greatly outnumbered and forces to retreat
The Battle of Vicksburg
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The battle at Vicksburg
final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War
Sherman’s March to the sea
military campaign of the American Civil War through Georgia
Lee Surrendering to Grant
Lee had a stronger arme but not as many people as grant so he knew they were gonna die so he surrendered
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in 1865
14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in us including aa’s
15th Amendment
Gave A-A men right to vote in 1870
Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death
Fords theater
John Wilkes booth
Peterson house
10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
Forgiving south and wanted a harsher readmission process
Freedman’s Bureau
It freed all men
Segregation
Separation of the races
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that made witches and aa!s to be separated in almost every public place
Ku Klux Klan
Largest anti African American terriost organization in the south
