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Period 5: 1844-1877 Flashcards

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Trist Mission

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1848
Trists negotiates Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
get territory of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming

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Gold Rush

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1848
Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California

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Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls

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1848
Seneca Falls, NY
headed by Mott and Stanton

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Election of 1848

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Taylor (Whig) defeats Cass (Dem + father of pop. sovereignty) and Van Buren (Free-Soil + abolitionists)
Taylor dies 1850 –> Milard Fillmore VP becomes president

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Compromise of 1850

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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

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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

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1850
US and Britain agree to neutrality of a canal in Central America

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Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan to US trade

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1852

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Election of 1852

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Pierce (Dem) defeats Scott (Whig)

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Gadsden Purchase

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1853
buy land from Mexico to build railroad

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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1853
Stowe

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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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

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New England Emigrant Aid Society

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1854
into Kansas / Nebraska territory

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Bleeding Kansas

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1854-59
Topeka (free soilers) government vs. LeCompton (slavery) government

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Ostend Manifesto

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1854
by Buchanan to take Cuba
rejected

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Walker expedition

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1854
Walker raises army, takes Nicaragua, Pierce recognizes new government

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Lawrence Mob Violency

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1856
abolitionist materials burned

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Pottawatomie Massacre

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1856
John Brown kills 4 pro-slavery people

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Election of 1856

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Buchanan (Dem) defeats Fremont (Rep-Free Soil) and Fillmore (Know Nothings)

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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1857
slaves are property to be taken anywhere - allows for slavery in the North
Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

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LeCompton Constitution rejected

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1857

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Panic of 1857

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1857
depression
Buchanan does nothing

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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1858
on extension of slavery into new territories

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Free Port Doctrine

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1858
Dred Scott decision has to be enforced
if not popular sovereignty rules

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“A House Divided” against itself cannot stand

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1858
Lincoln’’s speech

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John Brown’s Raid

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1859
Harper’s Ferry to free slaves

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Crittenden Compromise

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1860
last attempt at amendment against barring slavery below 36’30 lines
fails

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln (Rep) defeats Douglas (Dem)
Lincoln free soiler, not abolitionist

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Civil War

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1860-1865
South Carolina secedes 1860

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“Gilded Age”

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begins 1860
Beginning of Industrial Revolution

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30
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Fort Sumter

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1861
Beauregard (S) fires first shot

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“Necessity knows no law”

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1861
Lincoln increases army, navy, 1st income tax, green backs, no freedom of press speech, Vallandigham (Copperhead - Peace Dem) jailed

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Confederacy

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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

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Kansas admitted

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1861
free state

34
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Ex Parte Marryman

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1861
Lincoln suspends habeas corpus and passes martial law in Maryland
Taney says only Congress can suspend habeas corpus

35
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Bull Run

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1861
South wins
Civil War becomes long

36
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Pacific railroad Act

A

1862
partially federally funded
gave land for RR

37
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Homestead Act

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1862
gov. land grants for agricultural college

38
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Battle of Antietam

39
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Banking Acts

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1863, 1864
establish federally charted banks

40
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Draft Riot

41
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The Emancipation Proclamation

42
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Battle of Gettysberg

A

1863
turning point

43
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10 Percent Plan

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1863
Lincoln announce
lenient plan
must plan allegiance to US

44
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Election of 1864

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Lincoln (Rep) defeats McClellan (Dem)

45
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Wade-Davis Bill

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1864
South divided into military units until majority pledges allegiance and bans slavery

46
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Wade - Davis Manifesto

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1864
Congress controls Reconstruction

47
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Pullman Car and Refrigerated Car invented

48
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Sand Creek Massacre

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1864
Chivington attacks defenseless Indian village

49
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Civil War ends

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1865
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox, VA

50
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Freedman’s Bureau established

A

1865
education and food

51
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Lincoln assassinated

A

1865
Andrew Johnson becomes president

52
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Johnson’s amnesty

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1865
pardons almost all Confederates

53
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Thirteenth Amendment

A

1865
abolishes slavery

54
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Ex Parte Milligan

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1866
Military courts can’t try civilians when civil courts are open

55
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Civil Rights Act is passed over Johnson’s veto

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1866
gave blacks equal rights

56
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National Labor Union

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formed 1866 - short lived
attempted political involvement (women’s rights, temperance, 8hr day, cooperatives)

57
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Fetterman Massacre

A

1866
troops killed

58
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Alaska Purchased

59
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The Grange

A

1867 founded
Kelly
for social and educational reform for the farmer
farmers face deflation, debt, drought, depression

60
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Reconstruction Acts

A

1867
divide South into 5 military units
protect black voting
est. new constitutions

61
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Tenure of Office Act

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1868
President can’t remove any appointed official without Senate consent

62
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14th Amendment

A

1868
all persons born / naturalized within US are citizens - equal protection

63
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KKK

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begins 1868

64
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Washita River

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1868
Custer destroys Cheyenne village

65
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Carnegie Steel Company

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formed 1868

66
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Election of 1868

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Grant (rep) defeats Seymore (Dem)

67
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Transcontinental RR completed

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1868
Union Pacific and Central Pacific

68
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Knights of Labor

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formed 1869
secret

69
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Fifteenth Amendment

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ratified 1870
right to vote can’t be determined by race, color, etc.

70
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Force Acts

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1870
to protect constitutional rights guaranteed to blacks by the 14th and 15th amendments

71
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Standard Oil Company

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formed 1870

72
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Credit Mobilier Scandal

A

1872
stock holders of RR construction company overcharge gov. for job

73
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Election of 1872

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Grant reelected

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Slaughterhouse cases

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1873
14th Amendment doesn’t place fed gov’t under obligation to protect basic rights concerning monopolies

75
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Red River Wars

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1874
last attempt to resist reservations

76
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Farmers Alliance

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formed 1874
anti-RR pools, rebates, pass Granger laws

77
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Civil Rights Act

A

1875
gave blacks equal rights

78
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Pearl Harbor acquired

79
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Battle of Little Bighorn

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1876
Custer killed

80
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US vs Reese

A

1876
allows voting qualifications - literacy test, poll tax, grandfather clause

81
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telephone

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invented 1876
Alexander Graham Bell

82
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Election of 1876

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Hayes (Rep) defeats Tilden (Dem)

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