Period 5 1844-1887 Flashcards
Mormons
Joseph smith
- 1843: polygamy
- 1844: translated the book of Mormon
California gold rush 1849
48- discovered
48- 80,000 went west
54-300,000 people STATE (free of slave)
———————-—compromise of 1850 (clay) = free
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
Pacific railway act 1862
Railroad and telegraph line from mississippi to pacific
-for mail and military
Promontory Point, Utah 1869
The meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific rr
-transcontinental rr
Sandcreek massacre 1864
Colonel Chivingtons army
-killed 400 peaceful Indians
Clipper ships
Sleek, fast, small ships
- fastest ship in the world
- used for trade with Asia
Commodore Matthew Perry
Us navy
-helped establish US trade with JAPAN
Nativism
- hostility towards immigrants
- feared the overthrow of the American republic
- anti- catholic
- feared loss of jobs (immigrants paid a lot less)
Know nothing’s
American Party
- wanted to limit immigrant rights
- anti-Catholics
North vs south economy
North - manufacturing
South- slavery
Underground railroad 1850-1860
Secret hiding places on a northern route
-Harriet Tudman
Uncle Toms Cabin 1852
By: Harriet Beecher Stow
- promoted abolition
- intensified sectional crisis
Harpers Ferry 1859
John Browns attempt to invade the south with armed slaves
- tried to take arsenal
- LEE caught and hung him
John C. Calhoun
Whig party
- STATE rights!!!
- south carolina had the right to nullify/ ignore federal laws
Minstrel shows
Black faced actors
-dumb, stupid, foolish, superstitious
Wilson provision 1846
No slavery or servitude in land gained from Mexico
-suggested but NOT passed
Compromise of 1850
Douglass 8 proposals CA- free D.C- abolished slave trade Passage of the fugitive slave act West- popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty
People can vote on slavery
Fugitive Slave act 1850
Penalties for helping slaves escape
- law enforcement must return slaves
- promoted greater sectional crisis
Kansas- Nebraska act 1854
Allowed for popular sovereignty vote
-pro slavery
Dred Scott v Sandford 1957
BLACK-not citizens
US gov can’t take property (slaves)
Freeport doctrine 1858
“if people voted against slavery, then no slaves”