Joseph smith - 1843: polygamy - 1844: translated the book of Mormon

Sleek, fast, small ships - fastest ship in the world - used for trade with Asia

- hostility towards immigrants - feared the overthrow of the American republic - anti- catholic - feared loss of jobs (immigrants paid a lot less)

American Party - wanted to limit immigrant rights - anti-Catholics

John Browns attempt to invade the south with armed slaves - tried to take arsenal - LEE caught and hung him

Whig party - STATE rights!!! - south carolina had the right to nullify/ ignore federal laws

Period 5 1844-1887 Flashcards by Erik Hillman

Mormons

Joseph smith

1843: polygamy
1844: translated the book of Mormon

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California gold rush 1849

48- discovered
48- 80,000 went west
54-300,000 people STATE (free of slave)
———————-—compromise of 1850 (clay) = free

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Homestead act of 1862

Settlers given 160 acres

must live on and improve for 5 yrs
pay $30

Given to promotes expansion and manifest destiny

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Pacific railway act 1862

Railroad and telegraph line from mississippi to pacific

-for mail and military

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Promontory Point, Utah 1869

The meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific rr

-transcontinental rr

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Sandcreek massacre 1864

Colonel Chivingtons army

-killed 400 peaceful Indians

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Clipper ships

Sleek, fast, small ships

fastest ship in the world
used for trade with Asia

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Commodore Matthew Perry

Us navy

-helped establish US trade with JAPAN

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Nativism

hostility towards immigrants
feared the overthrow of the American republic
anti- catholic
feared loss of jobs (immigrants paid a lot less)

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Know nothing’s

American Party

wanted to limit immigrant rights
anti-Catholics

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North vs south economy

North - manufacturing

South- slavery

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Underground railroad 1850-1860

Secret hiding places on a northern route

-Harriet Tudman

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Uncle Toms Cabin 1852

By: Harriet Beecher Stow

promoted abolition
intensified sectional crisis

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Harpers Ferry 1859

John Browns attempt to invade the south with armed slaves

tried to take arsenal
LEE caught and hung him

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John C. Calhoun

Whig party

STATE rights!!!
south carolina had the right to nullify/ ignore federal laws

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Minstrel shows

Black faced actors

-dumb, stupid, foolish, superstitious

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Wilson provision 1846

No slavery or servitude in land gained from Mexico

-suggested but NOT passed

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Compromise of 1850

Douglass 8 proposals 
CA- free
D.C- abolished slave trade
Passage of the fugitive slave act
West- popular sovereignty

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Popular sovereignty

People can vote on slavery

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Fugitive Slave act 1850

Penalties for helping slaves escape

law enforcement must return slaves
promoted greater sectional crisis

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Kansas- Nebraska act 1854

Allowed for popular sovereignty vote

-pro slavery

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Dred Scott v Sandford 1957

BLACK-not citizens

US gov can’t take property (slaves)

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Freeport doctrine 1858

“if people voted against slavery, then no slaves”

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Harper’s Ferry 1859

Where Jon brown tried to invade with his slave army

-failed

Republican party 1854

No slavery in us territories - national projects (rr, roads) - protective tariffs - made up of: democrats, Whigs, free-soilers

Lincoln-Douglas debates 1858

Argued key issues | -gave Lincoln popularity

Abraham Lincoln

Republican - civil war - changed the cause to emancipation proclamation

Crittenden Compromise 1860

Last attempt to prevent civil war | -reestablished the MO compromise line (west.)

Southern secession

1860- no southern states voted for Lincoln (won) -felt vote didn't matter 1st- South Carolina

Confederate States

Under- Jefferson Davis - 9 million people (2 million slaves) - fought for slavery and STATE RIGHTS

Fort Sumter 1861

Start of the Civil War -Lincoln wanted to resupply this southern fort --south hell no-- attacked the fort and won ____north declares war

Antietam 1862

McClellan Vs Lee - 23,100 dead - Lee retreats, McClellan doesn't follow (fired) EMANCIPATION PROCLIMATION

Vicksburg 1863

Pemberton vs grant - Grant takes Jackson Mo - Sacks Vicksburg --north victory---

Gettysburg 1863

Meade (N) vs Lee (s) - Meade attacks - wins (doesn't follow)

March to the Sea 1864

Sherman's march from Atlanta - 90k men army - destroyed everything - cut sc in half - captured columbia SC

Appomattox Courthouse 1865

April 9' | Lee surrendered

Emancipation proclamation 1863

As of 1 Jan 1863, all slaves are FREE

13th amendment 1865

- no slavery | - congress given power to enforce

14th amendment 1868

- blacks-- citizenship - born in US-- citizen No south in office No south vest pay

15th amendment 1870

Suffrage given to black males

Sharecropping

- freeman work for whites - get house and stuff - gave up crops in exchange

Black codes

Southern laws - limited black rights - made blacks pay -- can't--work for $ (slave)

Civil rights act of 1875

- attempt to restrict racial discrimination - guaranteed hotel and transportation - replaced black codes

Freeman's Bureau 1865-1872

Welfare agency - food, clothing, medical, education - to freedman and white refuges

Black reconstruction

-used military force to protect blacks

Hiram Revels

1st black senator

Blanche K Bruce (1875-1881)

1st black person to serve a full senate term

Robert Smalls

Us congress and union war hero (black)

Carpetbagger

Northerner who went south for political advantage | -as a result of disorganization

Scalawag

Southerners who supported shift in power to congress and the army

Kkk

1866- white settlers | -terror, violence and intimidation

Redeemers

Former slave owners - assaulted blacks - wanted state gov

Compromises of 1877

End of SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION - removed troops from south - appointed democrat to cabin ate (David Key) - gave $ for rr and mississippi levees

Radical republicans

Wanted to democratize south - public schools - free peoples rights - black suffrage - wanted to give southern land to free blacks

Charles Sumner

Radical republican leader

Thaddeus Stevens

Radical republican leader

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 1868

1 vote short

Gadsden purchase 1853

The purchase of AZ AND NM for Mexico - $10 million - south wanted to build a railroad