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Period 5 1844-1887 Flashcards

1
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Mormons

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Joseph smith

  • 1843: polygamy
  • 1844: translated the book of Mormon
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California gold rush 1849

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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

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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

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Railroad and telegraph line from mississippi to pacific

-for mail and military

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Promontory Point, Utah 1869

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The meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific rr

-transcontinental rr

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Sandcreek massacre 1864

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Colonel Chivingtons army

-killed 400 peaceful Indians

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Clipper ships

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Sleek, fast, small ships

  • fastest ship in the world
  • used for trade with Asia
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Commodore Matthew Perry

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Us navy

-helped establish US trade with JAPAN

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9
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Nativism

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  • 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

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American Party

  • wanted to limit immigrant rights
  • anti-Catholics
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North vs south economy

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North - manufacturing

South- slavery

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Underground railroad 1850-1860

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Secret hiding places on a northern route

-Harriet Tudman

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Uncle Toms Cabin 1852

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By: Harriet Beecher Stow

  • promoted abolition
  • intensified sectional crisis
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Harpers Ferry 1859

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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

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Whig party

  • STATE rights!!!
  • south carolina had the right to nullify/ ignore federal laws
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16
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Minstrel shows

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Black faced actors

-dumb, stupid, foolish, superstitious

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17
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Wilson provision 1846

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No slavery or servitude in land gained from Mexico

-suggested but NOT passed

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Compromise of 1850

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Douglass 8 proposals 
CA- free
D.C- abolished slave trade
Passage of the fugitive slave act
West- popular sovereignty
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19
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Popular sovereignty

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People can vote on slavery

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20
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Fugitive Slave act 1850

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Penalties for helping slaves escape

  • law enforcement must return slaves
  • promoted greater sectional crisis
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21
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Kansas- Nebraska act 1854

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Allowed for popular sovereignty vote

-pro slavery

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22
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Dred Scott v Sandford 1957

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BLACK-not citizens

US gov can’t take property (slaves)

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Freeport doctrine 1858

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“if people voted against slavery, then no slaves”

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24
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Harper’s Ferry 1859

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Where Jon brown tried to invade with his slave army

-failed

25
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Republican party 1854

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No slavery in us territories

  • national projects (rr, roads)
  • protective tariffs
  • made up of: democrats, Whigs, free-soilers
26
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Lincoln-Douglas debates 1858

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Argued key issues

-gave Lincoln popularity

27
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Abraham Lincoln

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Republican

  • civil war
  • changed the cause to emancipation proclamation
28
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Crittenden Compromise 1860

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Last attempt to prevent civil war

-reestablished the MO compromise line (west.)

29
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Southern secession

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

30
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Confederate States

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Under- Jefferson Davis

  • 9 million people (2 million slaves)
  • fought for slavery and STATE RIGHTS
31
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Fort Sumter 1861

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

32
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Antietam 1862

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McClellan Vs Lee

  • 23,100 dead
  • Lee retreats, McClellan doesn’t follow (fired)

EMANCIPATION PROCLIMATION

33
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Vicksburg 1863

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Pemberton vs grant

  • Grant takes Jackson Mo
  • Sacks Vicksburg

–north victory—

34
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Gettysburg 1863

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Meade (N) vs Lee (s)

  • Meade attacks
  • wins (doesn’t follow)
35
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March to the Sea 1864

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Sherman’s march from Atlanta

  • 90k men army
  • destroyed everything
  • cut sc in half
  • captured columbia SC
36
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Appomattox Courthouse 1865

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April 9’

Lee surrendered

37
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Emancipation proclamation 1863

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As of 1 Jan 1863, all slaves are FREE

38
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13th amendment 1865

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  • no slavery

- congress given power to enforce

39
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14th amendment 1868

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  • blacks– citizenship
  • born in US– citizen

No south in office
No south vest pay

40
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15th amendment 1870

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Suffrage given to black males

41
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Sharecropping

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  • freeman work for whites
  • get house and stuff
  • gave up crops in exchange
42
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Black codes

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Southern laws

  • limited black rights
  • made blacks pay – can’t–work for $ (slave)
43
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Civil rights act of 1875

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  • attempt to restrict racial discrimination
  • guaranteed hotel and transportation
  • replaced black codes
44
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Freeman’s Bureau 1865-1872

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Welfare agency

  • food, clothing, medical, education
  • to freedman and white refuges
45
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Black reconstruction

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-used military force to protect blacks

46
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Hiram Revels

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1st black senator

47
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Blanche K Bruce (1875-1881)

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1st black person to serve a full senate term

48
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Robert Smalls

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Us congress and union war hero (black)

49
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Carpetbagger

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Northerner who went south for political advantage

-as a result of disorganization

50
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Scalawag

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Southerners who supported shift in power to congress and the army

51
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Kkk

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1866- white settlers

-terror, violence and intimidation

52
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Redeemers

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Former slave owners

  • assaulted blacks
  • wanted state gov
53
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Compromises of 1877

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End of SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION

  • removed troops from south
  • appointed democrat to cabin ate (David Key)
  • gave $ for rr and mississippi levees
54
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Radical republicans

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Wanted to democratize south

  • public schools
  • free peoples rights
  • black suffrage
  • wanted to give southern land to free blacks
55
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Charles Sumner

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Radical republican leader

56
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Thaddeus Stevens

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Radical republican leader

57
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 1868

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1 vote short

58
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Gadsden purchase 1853

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The purchase of AZ AND NM for Mexico

  • $10 million
  • south wanted to build a railroad

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