Test Flashcards
The Mexican-American War waged over the right to claim
Texas
Who were Lewis and Clark?
President Jefferson tasked Lewis and Clark to explore lands of the Mississippi River that was part of the Louisiana Purchase.
What was The Louisiana Purchase?
President Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana for $15 million from the French government.
In 1846 the _____________________ ended British claims to Oregon Territory.
Oregon Treaty
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
In 1862, workers for the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad companies built a transcontinental railroad that linked the U.S. from East to West.
How were Chinese workers involved in the building of the U.S. railroads?
Central Pacific recruited about 20, 000 Chinese workers who earned two-thirds of what Euro-American laborers.
How did the railroads devastate the Buffalo Herds—and the Native Americans’ way of life?
The construction of the railroads displaced Native Americans from their lands and got rid of their main resource, buffalo, which was for food, shelter, and trade.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
any citizen was required to turn in anyone who they knew as a slave
What was Kansas-Nebraska Act ?
formalized the idea of popular sovereignty
What was the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
The Dred Scott decision helped convince people that the entire government were in the hands of the dreaded slave power
Secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom
Underground Railroad
Famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, also an escaped slave, who helped many slaves to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
The right to vote for or against slavery.
popular sovereignty
Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory.
Dred Scott
The Confederate States of America.
Confederacy
Union General.
Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate general.
Robert E. Lee
Order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind Confederate lines.
Emancipation Proclamation
Drafting of civilians to serve in the military
Conscription
The bloodiest battles won during the Civil War in which the Union defeated Robert E. Lee and his forces in Maryland.
Battle of Antietam
What were two features of the Compromise of 1850?
To please the North, California would be admitted as a free state. To please the South, the Compromise would require Northerners to return fugitives back to their masters.
What was one of the reasons in which people took actions against slavery in the mid 19th century America?
a. Novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helped many people in the North see the fight to ban slavery as a moral struggle.
b. Antislavery Americans rushed into Nebraska to help ensure there would be enough people to decide the vote on slavery
Novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helped many people in the North see the fight to ban slavery as a moral struggle.
What major political party was born out of the slavery issue?
The Republican Party formed in 1854 bringing together Free-Soilers, anti-slavery Whigs and antislavery Democrats and antislavery nativists.
What major event led to the secession of Southern states from the Union?
Lincoln won the election in 1860 and gave the Republicans control.
