Midterm review Flashcards
Why the war of 1812 was called the second war for independence.
Gained respect
Freedom of the seas
The result of British Merchantalism
Rise of free market capitalism
Louisiana purchase
Double US size
Vast natural resources
Mississippi river
Precedent for purchased land
Monroe Doctrine
US will not interfere with existing European colonies
Any further European interference would be considered unfriendly and dangerous
Us will not interfere with European affairs
Spoils system
Giving government jobs to friends and supporters
Webster-Hayne Debate
Webster claimed nullification would lead to disunion
Missouri compromise
Missouri admitted as slave state
Main admitted as a free state
No slaver above 36 30
Great compromise at the constitutional convention 1787
Roger Sherman
Equal representation in the senate
Revenue bills begin in the house of representatives
Emerson’s concord hymn
Lexington and concord - Shot heard around the world
Saratoga
Turning point in the American war for independence
Yorktown
is independence
Importance of French in revolution
Formed a blockade at yorktown
What did the founding fathers fear most?
Tyranny
Father of the constitution
James Madison
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Argued for independence from Britain
Hamilton’s financial plan favored the
Bankers, creditors, and wealthy
Transcendentalist writers
Emerson
Thorough
“Self reliance and inner truth”
Seneca falls
Convention for the equal treatment of woman
Leaves of grass
Walt Witman’s collection of poetry
Garrison favored
“The immediate uncompensated emancipation of the slave”
Amount of white southerners who owned slaves
15%
Uncle Tom’s cabin
Stereotyped southerners as cruel slave holders
Free-port debate
Douglas says nothing and alienates everyone
Result of Lincoln’s election
South secedes
Why did the south secede?
Lost voice in the Government
Thought they could do better financially
Already like different countries
Believed they had the choice
Dred Scott decision
“A black man has no rights a white man should have to respect”
Southern advantages in civil war
Needed a draw to win
New the land
Leadership
Hopes for foreign aid
Why did confederates invade the north twice, even though they were fighting a defensive war?
Thought a northern win would win them the war
Getting choked by blockades
Desperate to end the war
Gettysburg
Turning point in the war
Day 2 - Chamberlain
Day 3 - Picket’s charge
Long term result of Sherman’s march to the sea
Lingering resentment for the north in the south
Results of the Emancipation Proclomation
War to free the slaves
Keep British out of the war
Why was Antietam so important to Lincoln?
Allowed for the proposal of the emancipation proclomation
Vicksburg
The father of waters again flows unvexed to the sea
Underground Railroad / Fugitive slave law
Loose network of houses to move slaves up north / Illegal to assist a runaway
Supporter of the Compromise 1820-1850
Henry Clay
Compromise of 1850
California enters free
Utah and New Mexico for popular sovereignty
Frederick Douglas split because
Garrison started speaking about disunion from slave holders
Erie Canal
Connected New York City
Makes it the most important city
Trail of tears
Cherokee forced off land
Thousands die walking to a reservation
Forty Ninth Parallel
Longest unfortified border in the world
Border between United States and Canada
John Marshall
Judge in major court cases
“We are not enemies, bur friends”
First Inaugural Speech
“With malice towards none, with Charity for all”
“Fondly do we hope”
Second Inaugural Speech
“Four score”
Gettysburg Speech
“I cannot spare this man, he fights”
On Grant
Marbury v Madison
Judicial review
Cohens v Virginia
State Law reviewed by court
Fletcher v Peck
Supreme court ruled state law unconstituional
Civil war event order
Ft Sumter Antietam Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Appomattox
“War is all hell”
Sherman
Roger B Taney
Judge in Dred Scott case
Political Results of civil war
“Before plural, after singular”
Established federal supremacy
Abolition of slavery
Economic Results of civil war
“Northern prosperity, southern ruin”
Expansion of factory system
National banking act ‘63
Morrill Tariff ‘61
Homestead act ‘62
Gave free farm land to those who would cultivate it for 5 years