PERIOD 5 Flashcards
Morrill land grant act
Transferred western land to state governments, who could sell it to generate funds for education
California gold rush
Created the need for law and order in the west
Homestead act of 1862
Permitted citizens to claim land cheaply in west
National bank acts 1863
Created new national banking system
Absorbed all the little banks
Created uniform currency
Draft riots
Most violent ever in NYC
Blamed blacks for the war
Irish angry
Copperheads
“Peace democrats” dems opposed to war
Lincolns radical actions
Martial law
1864 election
Lincoln’s reelection majority electoral
Confiscation acts
Declared confederate military slaves free
Emancipation
Result in radical republicans gain influence
Emancipation proclamation
Made all confederacy slaves free (not boarder states)
Confederate funding problems
Asked states for money nicely and they all were like nah not feelin it
Jefferson Davis
Confederate “president”
Moderate (ofc)
Shitty
General Winfield Scott
Shitty general in civil war Lincoln was like nah son
George b McClellan
Arrogant and shitty civil war general
Ulysses s grant
Awesome general
Attached the resources not the territory
Lincoln’s favorite child
Robert e lee
Military dude for the confeds
Trent affair
British getting in With south union is like what the fuck man
It all happened with boats idk
Dread Scott decision
Federal government was powerless to discuss the rights of slavery within states
Was drastic and startling
Buchanan
Timid timid timid
Did like nothing
Election of 1844
No one wanted to talk about annexation of Texas
Polk swooped in and was like YAS TEXAS so he won
54-40 or fight
Loose talk of war between America and British over Canadian boarder
No one wanted war so Brits relented
Fixed at 49th parallel
Mexican war
Support split in America
Victorious
Bear flag revolution
The mess of fighting in California
John c Fremont leading a group, the navy, And settlers against Mexicans
Zachary Taylor
Good commander in Mexican war became president after narrow victory
Free soil party
Emergence signaled the discontent and disapproval of slavery
William h Seward
After Calhoun died. Wanted slaVERY DED
Stephen a Douglas
Democrat, westerner
Devoted to personal and sectional gain
Wanted railroads and shit
CALLED CLAYS compromise of 1850 bill OMINOUS And tried to kill it
Millard fillmore
Z Taylor’s shitty replacement after he died.
Dull but HANDSOME
Ostend manifesto
Plans for taking Cuba that leaked and got everyone all uppity because they thought it was like a secret slave state
South opinion on annexation
Opposed all new territory that would not openly allow slaves
Election of 1856
Boring Buchanan
Everyone playing it safe
America claim of Oregon
Good farming produced Oregon ferver to settle south of Columbian
Manifest destiny
Fueled explanation including Mexican California and the annexation of Texas
Causes of Mexican war
Annexation of Texas
Pushing Mexico to sell California
Assertion of boarder by Polk and Slidell
Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo 1848
Ended Mexican war
Mex recognize rio grande as boarder
Us pay 15 mill and assume claims against Mexico
Clayton bulwark treaty
Great Britian and America both wanted the general canal and they were like we can share
Booker t Washington
Spokesman for blacks in south
Born into slavery
Encouraged blacks to attend schools and such
Jim Crow laws
Restricting laws encouraging segregation and such
Chinese immigrants
First Americans were like yeah, but then their success in west was see as a threat.
Chinese exclusion act
Chinese exclusion act
Reflection of perceived threat of Chinese
Ban emigration and prevented Chinese from becoming citizens
Anti coolie clubs
Anti Chinese agitation and violence
Didn’t employ Chinese
Created by Irish immigrant
Characteristics of western working class
Multiracial
Romance of west
Rocky Mountain school Cowboy myth (Owen wister) Fredric Remington (cowboy)
Sand creek massacre
Eastern Sioux killed 700 whites when rebelling against restrictions imposed
Indian hunting
Sport of whites popular in California
Factor in reduction of Indian populations
1850-80
Little Bighorn
Montana 1876
Indians vs whites
Building transcontinental railroad
Chinese workers made up 90%
They didn’t complain ^
After this Chinese went out of work
