Period 5 Vocab Review Flashcards
Frontier thesis
Manifest destiny
Us concept of westward expansion. Justify annexation, spread slavery
Texas annexation
Independent from Mexico, added to US. Mexico mad. Mexican American War
James K Polk presidential goals
Lower tariff, coast to coast, Oregon
54-40 or fight / Oregon treaty
Democrats, Polk slogan, 49th parallel set
Spot resolutions
Abe Lincoln, where was blood shed?
Mexican American war
Annexation of Texas, treaty of Gaudelupe Hidalgo. Compromise of 1850
California good rush
Gold discovered everyone want it. Forty niners
Wilmont proviso
Want all Mexican land free
Free soil party
No expansion of slavery
Compromise of 1850
California, Utah, New Mexico, use popular sovereignty, abolish slave trade, fugitive slave laws
Popular sovereignty
Fugitive slave law
Return escapees to owners. North hunting ground
Uncle toms cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe, bring Civil War, abolitionist
Kansas Nebraska Act
Repeal MI compromise. Popular soverignty
Bleeding kansas
Pro slave go into territory to terrorize
American party
Know nothing party
Republican party
1854, anti slavery
Fred Scott v Sandford
Slave sue for freedom. Declared property
John Browns raid
Harpers Ferry, want end slavery, instead captured
Fort sumter
South Carolina attack
Border states
States that were slave but in Union
Civil war
Confederate states. Jefferson Davis. Lincoln restore union
Radical republicans
Wade Davis Bill.