Fourth Set Flashcards
What is the term for a tenant farmer who exchanges a share of the crops they produce for the right to farm a ladnowner’s land?
Sharecropper
Southern Ladies’ Memorial Associations established during Reconstruction were a key force in creating what revisionist story about the Civil War?
The Lost Cause
Which of these was NOT a feature of the “Black Codes” passed in Southern States during Reconstruction?
Strip African American men of their right to vote
The second Great Awakening was part a reaction against what aspect of Calvinist theology?
The belief that God predestined only some people for salvation.
Manifest Destiny is specifically American version of what form of colonialism?
Settler colonialism
Why did Andrew Jackson’s political opponents choose the name “Whig Party” for thier new political party?
To invoke the patriots of the American Revolution
South Carolina’s Declaration of the Immediate Causes made what primary argument for sucession from the Union?
The failure of the Federal Government to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act
Who was the political leader who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglass
13th Amendment
Abolishes Slavery
Compromise of 1850
Assemblage of bills passed late in 1850s that–
Caused by diverging interests of competing sections of the country becoming sharp
- attempt to balance interests and slave off conflict: to placate slave owners, created Futiive Slace Act of 1850, and right for New Mexico and Utah to determine slave status
- Placate: California as a free state, ban on slave trade in DC, Texas surrendering territory north of 36’30 line
- Kept the promises of Missouri Compromise alive
- empowered federal government to deputize citizens in arresting runaways
- created federal commisioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without benefit of a joury trial or court testimony
