Semester 1 Haugen Flashcards

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Emancipation

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the freeing of slaves with no payment to slaveholders

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antebellum

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the period before the civil war or anything belonging to the period before the civil war

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free blacks

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black people who have been freed from slavery

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Abolitionist

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People who join the call to outlaw slavery

Abolition: “a setting free”

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David walker

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freed black

advised blacks to fight for freedom rather then to wait for slavery to end

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Fredrick Douglas

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born in slavery in 1817, taught to read and write by wife of one of his owners. 1838- Douglass had skilled job as a ship caulker but kept no earnings. He escaped to New York as a free black and was sponsored by Garrison to speak regularly in the American anti slavery society and started the newspaper “The North Star” named after the star that guided slaves to the North.

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Nat turner

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born in slavery in 1800 in Southampton County, VA. Turner judged an eclipse of sun as divine signal for action. In 1831 with 80 followers he attacked 4 plantations and killed 60 white people. He was eventually captured and hanged for his part in the slave rebellion and white people killed 200 blacks in retaliation which greatly affected the relationship between white and black people in the South.

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Sarah and Angelina Grimké

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Originally from south 
Raised in very wealthy family
wrote a book on accounts of slavery
Spoke against slavery in from of big crowds 
God will punish us for having slaves
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Connection between women abolitionist movements and women’s rights

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Many women in the abolition movement became leaders in the women’s rights movement. The argument for human rights for blacks became relevant for women as well.

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different strategies of abolitionist movements

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Newspapers 
Anti slavery society 
sending bills to congress 
nat turners rebellion 
other books
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southern and northern actions and responses to the abolitionist movements

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South- slave codes, gag rule

North- newspaper anti slavery society

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global and US slave issues introduced in amistad

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Queen oh Spain claims them, 2 plantation owners claim they bought them, 2 spaniards claim the slaves be returned to them, 2 coast guard officers claim them as goods captured at sea, and the slaves claim they are not slaves at all and need to be returned to Africa, however they’re also accused of murder.

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republic of Texas(lone star republic)

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the nation established in 1836 when American settlers in the Mexican province of Texas declared and fought for their independence

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Santa Anna

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Mexican president who seeks to put down Texas Revolution and gain power over Mexico
orders the siege of the Alamo
purpose of executing survivors was to end rebellion

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Sam Houston

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Virginian who makes Texas his home

Commander of Texan army who overtakes Santa Anna’s army at San Jacinto, Texas and gives Texas independence from Mexico

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David walker

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freed black

advised blacks to fight for freedom rather then to wait for slavery to end

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Fredrick Douglas

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born in slavery in 1817, taught to read and write by wife of one of his owners. 1838- Douglass had skilled job as a ship caulker but kept no earnings. He escaped to New York as a free black and was sponsored by Garrison to speak regularly in the American anti slavery society and started the newspaper “The North Star” named after the star that guided slaves to the North.

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Nat turner

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born in slavery in 1800 in Southampton County, VA. Turner judged an eclipse of sun as divine signal for action. In 1831 with 80 followers he attacked 4 plantations and killed 60 white people. He was eventually captured and hanged for his crimes and white people killed 200 blacks in retaliation which greatly affected the relationship between white and black people in the South.

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Sarah and Angelina Grimké

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Originally from south
Raised in very wealthy family
wrote a book on accounts of slavery
Spoke against slavery in from of big crowds

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Connection between women abolitionist movements and women’s rights

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Women abolitionists became leaders in the women’s rights movement. HUMAN rights argument applied to the women’s rights movement as well.

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different strategies of abolitionist movements

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Newspapers 
Anti slavery society 
sending bills to congress 
nat turners rebellion 
other books
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southern and northern actions and responses to the abolitionist movements

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South- slave codes, gag rule

North- newspaper anti slavery society

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global and US slavery issues introduced in amistad

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Other parts of the world did not allow slavery and US did

issues: Are slaves people with rights

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republic of Texas(lone star republic)

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the nation established in 1836 when American settlers in the Mexican province of Texas declared and fought for their independence

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Santa Anna
Mexican president who seeks to put down Texas Revolution and gain power over Mexico orders the siege of the Alamo purpose of executing survivors was to end rebellion
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Sam Houston
Virginian who makes Texas his home | Commander of Texan army who overtakes Santa Anna's army at San Jacinto, Texas and gives Texas independence from Mexico
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what are the causes of the Mexican Revolution
``` Mexican negligence racism cultural differences slavery issues individual freedom- Anglos vs. Mexican believe of strong central government ```
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Why has the Alamo become a motivation and “battle cry” for the Texans? 
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Why was the Treaty of Velasco (1836) controversial? 
It granted independence to Texas. Texas set up an army and a navy and had its own flag.
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Republic of California
The nation proclaimed by American settlers in California when they declared their independence from Mexico in 1846
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande border for Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the US who paid $15 million for the Mexican cession Ended the Mexican American war
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Gadsden Purchase
In 1853 purchase by the US of land from Mexico establishing the present US Mexican Border
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California gold rush
A movement of many people to a region in which gold has been discover in 1849
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Sutter’s Mill
Where gold was first discovered in California
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forty-niners
California gold miners
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manifest destiny
Manifest destiny is the idea that it is our right as Caucasian Americans to move from coast to coast
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James polk
US president that believed that war with Mexico would bring not only Texas but also New Mexico and California into the Union
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zachary taylor
General ordered by Polk to march to the Rio Grande and blockade the river
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John Slidell
Spanish speaking emissary sent to Mexico to purchase California and New Mexico and to gain approval of the Rio Grande as the Texas border
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John C. Calhoun
He argued that although the north and south had been politically equal when the constitution was adopted, the perfect equilibrium between the two sections no longer existed.
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John C. Fremont
Led US troops into California during war with Mexico. He's also the 1856 republican presidential candidate.
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Stephen Kearny
Ordered to March from Fort Leavenworth across the dessert to New Mexico Nicknamed the long marcher
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Winfield Scott
Led American invasion to Mexico
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The causes and effects of the Mexican-American war
Causes- Disputed land, slavery, manifest destiny | Effects- what do you do with territory, free or slave
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President Polk's position on expansion
manifest destiny
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Why was the Mexican American war controversial?
the idea, is it right to go after Mexico for territory | north was very skeptical about slavery
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succession
A formal withdraw of a state from the union
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popular sovereignty
A system in which residence vote to decide an issue
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Stephen A. Douglas
Picked up the pro compromise reins when Clay left Washington
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Millard Fillmore
Succeeded President Taylor and supported Clay's compromise.
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What were the Wilmot Proviso and what issues were raised by it?
Wilmot Proviso were California and territories of Utah and New Mexico closed to slavery forever. Divided congress along regional lines. The north was angry because the southerners wouldn't vote for internal improvements such as building canals and roads.
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Why did California statehood in 1850 complicate the political atmosphere in the United States? 
People didn't know whether or not California would enter as a solace state or a free state. California's state constitution declared it a free state however.
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What were the conditions of the Compromise of 1850? How did attempt to settle the political waters at that time? 
A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states. Popular sovereignty Clay hoped it would settle "all questions in controversy between the free and slave states, growing out of the subject of Slavery"
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personal liberty laws
Statutes, passed in nine northern states in the 1850s, that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves
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Underground Railroad
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
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Uncle Toms Cabin
A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil
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Harriet Tubman
One of the most famous conductors | Slave that helped 300 slaves including her own parents flee to freedom
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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John Brown
An abolitionist who believed that God had called on him to fight slavery
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Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner 
anti slavery sumner- senator gave a passionate talk | pro slavery brooks- representation
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Why was the Fugitive Slave Law so hated by the Northern abolitionists? How did the Northern states attempt to  counter the federal law? 
Northerners thought slavery was immoral and didn't want to be required to return fugitive slaves. They outlawed imprisonment of fugitive slaves and guaranteed jury trials for them that were usually drawn out to make it more difficult for southern slaveholders.
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How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin affect the abolitionist cause? How did the South respond to it?
it was a very bias anti slavery novel | the south denied it
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What were the conditions of the Kansas­Nebraska Act? Why was the Missouri Compromise of 1820 a problem? Why  was the Kansas­Nebraska Act so controversial?
determined that Kansas and Nebraska would come in as states and they had the popular sovereignty votes unconstitutional because no states above could be a slave state
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Why was the Bleeding of Kansas linked to the Kansas­Nebraska Act? 
Northerners and southerners flooded into Kansas to swing the voting in their direction. Fraudulent voting took place by boarder roughians which triggered a rival government from anti slavery citizens. Violence soon arose with the sack of Lawrence and the Potawatomi massacre.
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nativism
Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign born people
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Franklin Pierce
democratic candidate who was handed the election after the Whig vote in the south fell from 50% to 35%
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Horace Greeley
one of the founders of the new Republican Party
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James Buchanan
a northerner nominated by the democrats in the 1856 election
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What did impact did the slavery issue have on the Whig Party?
it split them up
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Why did the nativism movement lead to the creation of the Know ­Nothing Party?
They started using handshakes and passwords and were told to answer questions about their activities by saying, "I know nothing" Anti immigrants
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How were the Free­ Soilers and why did they oppose slavery?
opposed slavery in the west. didn't want it to expand
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How did the way in which the Republican Party was formed indicate that the party had a good chance of success? 
stopped slavery
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Confederate states on America
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Dred Scott
slavery constitutional ???
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Abraham Lincoln
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What was the significance of Dred Scott v. Sandford decision? 
They ruled the Missouri compromise unconstitutional.
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What was the Lecompton Constitution and why did President Buchanan support it? Why was it a poor decision?
It was a state constitution drawn up for pro slavery in Kansas which wasn't very popular and was voted down twice. Buchanan supported it because he owed his presidency to the south. Stephen Douglas then got congress to have a referendum, which resulted in it being voted down again. Southerners hated Douglas whiled northerners loved him. The split became larger.
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Why did the Lincoln Douglas debates take place? Summarize the arguments of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A.  Douglas in the debates. How does the “Freeport Doctrine” fit into the story?
Lincoln thought slavery wouldn't go away without the supreme courts ruling over the states. Douglas said popular sovereignty would let it go away on its own. Lincoln asked Douglas how that would work if territories can't outlaw slavery without being states. Douglas replied by saying if people were antislavery all the had to do was elect officials who were anti slavery and then it would be enforced.
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Why did Harpers Ferry increase tensions between the North and the South?
Northerners though John brown was a hero and praised him. Southerners fears the north was planning slave uprisings everywhere and started mobs that attacked whites who were suspected of holding anti slavery views.
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Why did the South decide to succeed after the election of 1860?
Lincoln was elected