Period 5: 1844-1877 Flashcards
Trist Mission
1848
Trists negotiates Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
get territory of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming
Gold Rush
1848
Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California
Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
1848
Seneca Falls, NY
headed by Mott and Stanton
Election of 1848
Taylor (Whig) defeats Cass (Dem + father of pop. sovereignty) and Van Buren (Free-Soil + abolitionists)
Taylor dies 1850 –> Milard Fillmore VP becomes president
Compromise of 1850
1850
Henry Clay
passes as separate acts during Fillmore
California free state
Other areas - popular sovereignty
US takes Texas debts
slave trade banned in Washington
Fugitive Slave Law strengthened
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
1850
US and Britain agree to neutrality of a canal in Central America
Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan to US trade
1852
Election of 1852
Pierce (Dem) defeats Scott (Whig)
Gadsden Purchase
1853
buy land from Mexico to build railroad
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1853
Stowe
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
passed to create two states for a RR to go to west
slavery in states determined by popular sovereignty
North fears overturn of Missouri Compromise
New England Emigrant Aid Society
1854
into Kansas / Nebraska territory
Bleeding Kansas
1854-59
Topeka (free soilers) government vs. LeCompton (slavery) government
Ostend Manifesto
1854
by Buchanan to take Cuba
rejected
Walker expedition
1854
Walker raises army, takes Nicaragua, Pierce recognizes new government
Lawrence Mob Violency
1856
abolitionist materials burned
Pottawatomie Massacre
1856
John Brown kills 4 pro-slavery people
Election of 1856
Buchanan (Dem) defeats Fremont (Rep-Free Soil) and Fillmore (Know Nothings)
Dred Scott v Sandford
1857
slaves are property to be taken anywhere - allows for slavery in the North
Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
LeCompton Constitution rejected
1857
Panic of 1857
1857
depression
Buchanan does nothing
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1858
on extension of slavery into new territories
Free Port Doctrine
1858
Dred Scott decision has to be enforced
if not popular sovereignty rules
“A House Divided” against itself cannot stand
1858
Lincoln’’s speech
John Brown’s Raid
1859
Harper’s Ferry to free slaves
Crittenden Compromise
1860
last attempt at amendment against barring slavery below 36’30 lines
fails
Election of 1860
Lincoln (Rep) defeats Douglas (Dem)
Lincoln free soiler, not abolitionist
Civil War
1860-1865
South Carolina secedes 1860
“Gilded Age”
begins 1860
Beginning of Industrial Revolution
Fort Sumter
1861
Beauregard (S) fires first shot
“Necessity knows no law”
1861
Lincoln increases army, navy, 1st income tax, green backs, no freedom of press speech, Vallandigham (Copperhead - Peace Dem) jailed
Confederacy
established 1861
David = president
Stephens = VP
no protective tariffs
states could impeach federal officers
slavery protected
no federal funded improvements
States supreme
2/3 of house to appropriate money