History 201 Flashcards
Battle of New Orleans
The final major battle in the war of 1812.
American forces, led by Andrew Jackson, won the battle
Erie Canal
a canal in New York that runs from Albany, NY all the way to Buffalo, NY to Lake Erie. It follows the Hudson River and runs about 363 miles.
Lowell, MA
was the first town to undergo the industrial revolution.
Named after Francis Cabot Lowell who started the textile mills there.
William Lloyd Garrison
prominent American abolitionist.
Author of the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper.
Co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society
Promoted immediate emancipation of the slaves
Nat Turner
Led a rebellion in Virginia that led to the death of 60 white people and at least 100 black people.
Nat was sentenced and hanged for the rebellion and almost 200 more blacks were killed because of their reaction to the violence.
John C. Calhoun
Sec. of State John C. Calhoun secretly negotiated a treaty to annex Texas, but President Tyler did not send it to the Senate for Ratification
“Trail of Tears”
The name given to the forced relocation of the Native Americans from the southern part of American during the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
“David Walker’s Appeal”
was written to stop racism in 1825.
Sojourner Truth
african american abolitionist and women’s rights activist.
Born Isabella Bumfree
Born a slave but escaped
Seneca Falls Convention
Women’s Rights convention
went on for 2 days and had 6 sessions
included lectures on the law and on the role of women in society
“Omnibus Bill”
Written by Henry Clay
1) California would enter immediately as a free state
2) New Mexico and Utah territories organized under Popular Sovereignty
3) The Slave Market in Washington D.C. would close
4) Congress promises never to injure slavery where it already exists
5) A fugitive slave law would be enacted, enforced and funded
6) The debts of the republic of Texas would be paid
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
It opened up new land to settle
It repealed the Missouri Compromise by enacting popular sovereignty
“Bleeding Kansas”
a series of violent political confrontations involving the anti-slavery movement that took place in the Kansas territory. The heart of the problem was whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or a slave state.
Charles Sumner
leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts
during the civil war he worked to destroy the confederacy, free all the slaves and stay on good terms with Europe.
Shiloh
A major battle in the Civil War.
Fought in southwest Tennessee
The confederates won the first day but ultimately lost on the second day
Gettysburg
the site of the bloodiest battle in the Civil War.
Gen. Lee and his confederate forces went into Gettysburg to attack the Union soldiers and ultimately failed.
13th Amendment
Neither Slavery not involuntary servitude shall exist in the United States except when crime is committed.
Era of Good Feeling
was a time in United States when there was only one political party.
Frederick Douglass
The leading Black Abolitionist Escaped Slave Worked with Garrison in Boston Fled to England to escape slave catchers returned to Rochester, NY and published "The North Star"
Charles G. Finney
A leader in the Second Great Awakening
Henry Clay
Author of the Omnibus Bill
Ran for president under the WHIG party 3 time
Theodore Weld
author during the abolition movement.
he wrote novels and pamphlets and tracts trying to educate people about slavery
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women’s rights movement.
Harriet Tubman
African-American abolitionist and union spy during the civil war. She was called “Moses” because she help a lot of slaves escape through the Underground Railroad.
