part 2.) 75 Flashcards
Election of 1800
Adams and Jefferson:
no majority, had to go to the house of reps
Louisiana Purchase
france sold to us in 1803 for $15 million ; it doubles the size of the US
Lewis and Clark expedition
sent on expidition to explore the territory and find resorces
Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake
British troops impressed US citizens
Chesaeake was intercepted by British vessel demanding to search for dissenters
Cause of the wa of 1812
Warhawks from the war of 1812
Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
War of 1812-DC burn, fort McHenry, battle of New Orleans
- ) White house, capitol, and Library of Congress
- ) entrence of Baltimore harbor, bombed
- ) battle tat took place after the Treaty of Ghent was signed in 1812
The Star-Spangled Banner
wrote by Francis Scott Key after Fort Mchenry was bombed
monroe Doctrine
Western Hemisphere was no longer open to colonize
Irish potato famine’s relationship to immigration
Ireland had a potato loss and migrated over to america to plant potatoes
Elizabeth Caddy Stanton’s convention
Seneca Falls Convention:
womens rights
NY
publicly fought for womens suffrage
Industrial revolution
change from an agrarion society to one based of industry
Capitalism
econimic system of the United states
Free enterprise system
people are free to buy, sell, and produce what they want and can work where they wish
Supply and demand
supply=how much you have of something
demand=how mush people want it
best=have high demand, low supply
worst=have high supply, low demand
Number one crop in the south in the 1800s
cotton
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin-what is it and why was it important
made it easy to seperate seeds and cotton
made work faster/ easier
urban vs rural
urban: city
rural: country
Wilderness Road
route to Kentucky to Atlantic Coast
Daniel Boone
blazed the wilderness road
Cumberland gap
in mountains that made passing through the Appalachians easier
Corrupt bargain
John Q. Adams and Henry Clay
clay agreed to help adams win the election in the HoR
Andrew Jackson-spoil system, fight with the bank
1.) could replace th gov”t officals because won
2.) he tried to kill the bank by withdrawing all federal funds from the national bank and placing it into smaller state banks
he belived it was out to kill him
Indian removal act
The law authorized 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
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west that had been designated as Indian Territory.
Sequoyah
creator of cherokee alphabet
William Henry Harrison’s presidency
lasted 32 days
shortest presidency
tippecanoe
Manifest destiny
belief that america should extend it’s boundaries all the way to the pacific
Texas rebellion
Alamo
Battle of San Jacinto
Lone star republic
The alamo-battle significance
Santa Anna’s Mexico vs. Travis Texans. Davy Crockett, backwoodsmen from Tennessee volunteer to fight. Defenders at the Alamo bought the Texans some time. Lonestar republic is formed after.
Davy Crockett
Backwoodsman from Tennessee who volunteered to fight at the Alamo
Oregon Trail
was used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest
James K Polk-president that fulfilled what?
“Young hickory” firm believer manifest destiny, determined to gain New Mexico and California because of trade to the pacific ocean and manifest destiny.Got both, but paid $15 million to Mexico
Mexican war-border dispute, Mexican secession
US believes the Texas border is the Rio Grande River and Mexico believes the border is the nueces river
John Sutter and the California gold rush
john sutter was the 1st one to find gold
Brigham Young
brought the mormons to ohio
Missouri compromise of 1820
Helped preserve the balance between the north and south
John Brown
Violent abolitionist
Harriet Tubman
Conductor of the Underground Railroad
Underground railroad
way for slaves to get to the North
Frederick Douglass
Aa abolitionist
Harriet Beecher Stowe, uncle Tom’s cabin
Novel that explored slavery
Fugitive slave act
Requires all citizens to catch runaway slaves in 1850
Kansas-Nebraska act
Increased the territory open to slaveholding
Bleeding Kansas
1st to shed blood in a civil war over slavery
Sumner-brooks incident
Hit him with a cane because he was talking about sumners cuz
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John brown and Military grade weapons
Dred scott v. Sandford
said that scott was not free
constitution supported slavery
Lincoln-Douglas debates-house division speech
Debates: senate race
Lincoln speech: a house divided can not stand alone
Election of 1860
Lincoln won 16th president
Causes of the Civil War
Slavery
Fort Sumter
south attacked, but no one got killed
Ulysses S Grant
18th president
Robert E Lee
leader of the South
Stonewall Jackson
Most gifted tactical commanders of US history
First battle of bull run
1st major battle of the civil war
anaConda plan
plan to surround the South so that they would surrender
54th Massachusetts
What was the most well known African-American regiment in the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
Led to Lincolns speech
Battle of Vicksburg
Last major battle of Civil War
Sherman‘s march to the sea
After burning Atlanta, army marched to Savannah, Georgia
lee Surrendering to Grant
Appamaxiv courthouse
13th amendment
ended slavery
14th amendment
Citizenship
15th amendment
Black man could vote
Lincolns assassination-theater name, murder, place of death
fords theatre, John Wilks Booth, died in Petersen House
10% plan and radical Republicans plan for reconstruction
10% was forgiving if the south
radical republicans were harsh
Freedmans bureau
Help aa transition to freedom
Segregation
separation of the races
Jim Crow laws
Harsh on aa after slavery was abolished
kkk
racist group. killed negros
