Period:5 1844-1877 Flashcards
What year did period 5 start and end?
1844-1877
Reasons for westward expansion (3)
5.2
Religion: Mormons
Homesteading: prenticing acts
Resources: Gold
Manifest Destiny (2)
5.2
Whole continent sea to sea
Given by god
What did Polk want? (2)
5.2
Annex Texas
Oregon territory
Causes of the Mexican American War?
(2)
5.3
Texas want annexed by U.S
Send troops Rio Grande
Effect’s of winning Mexican American war? (3)
5.3
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1. Rio Grande border
2. Mexican Cession: California, New Mexico
What did the Wilmot Proviso do and what was it? (2)
5.3
Wanted any land gained by Mexican Cession to be free- failed
Showed tension for slavery
Positions of southern, free soilers, and popular sovereignty (3)
5.4
South: slavery constitutional right, Missouri compromise
Free soil: free for white opportunity
Popular sovereignty: people decide
Compromise 1850 (4)
5.4
Utah, New Mexico popular sovereignty
California free
Slave trade banned WA D.C
Strict fugitive slave law
Effects of immigrants (2)
5.5
Cultural enclaves
Know Nothing party/ nativism
How was slavery protested? (3)
5.5
Violence (Harpers Ferry) Words (Newspaper) Underground Railroad
Kansas Nebraska Act 1850 (2)
5.6
Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas: violence
Dred Scott case (2)
5.6
Declare slaves
1. Not citizens
2. Property
Whig part splits because of slavery (2)
5.6
Cotton whigs: pro
Conscience Whigs : anti
Election 1860 (2)
5.7
Stephen Douglas lose to Lincoln
SC secede + 6 more: slavery,state rights