The Final 150 Part 2 Flashcards
Election of 1800
It was Thomas Jefferson vs John Adams and Thomas Jefferson won
Louisiana Purchase
deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
Lewis and Clark Expedition
It was when Lewis and Clark went to see what land was in the Louisiana purchase
Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake
Causes f the war of 1812
War Hawks from the War of 1812
Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
The Star Spangled Banner
Was written during Battle of Baltimore at Fort McHenry. Written by John Stafford Smith
Monroe Doctrine
The Western Hemisphere wasn’t able for colonization. Western Hemisphere= North America and South America
Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration
The Irish came to the west coast because they didn’t have enough potatoes and they all were hungry
War of 1812 – DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans
Doc was burned fort mchenry was in Baltimore and it was where the star spangled banner was written,battle of New Orleans took place after the war was over because the troops didn’t know that the treaty was signed
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention
American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women’s rights movement. ???????
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
Capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Free Enterprise System
Free enterprise is a type of economy where products, prices, and services are determined by the market, not the government. It’s capitalism, not communism
Supply and Demand
the amount of a commodity, product, or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price.
Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s
Cotton
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important
It made cotton a lot easier to make which meant that plantation owners got more and more slave
Urban vs Rural
Urban areas can include town and cities while rural areas include villages and hamlets.
Wilderness Road
The Wilderness Road was the principal route used by settlers for more than five years to reach Kentucky from the East. It was blazed by Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
He explored the west when it was illegal to
Cumberland Gap
A gap in the mountains used by people who got to Tennessee and Kentucky
The Corrupt Bargain
Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House at the time, convinced Congress to elect John Quincy Adams, who then made Clay his Secretary of State. Andrew Jackson’s supporters denounced this as a “corrupt bargain.
Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank
He fought the bank and killed the national bank ????
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many res
Trail of Tears
The name of the trail that the Indians had to go on to go to the west
Sequoyah
Sequoyah, named in English George Gist or George Guess, was a Cherokee silversmith. In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible.
William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
He had the shortest presidency because he got pneumonia and died
Manifest Destiny
Where the United States wanted to spread its borders to the west coast
Texas Rebellion
The Texas Revolution began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralized Mexican government
The Alamo
The battle of the Alamo is a long-recognized symbol of bravery in the face of unbeatable odds. Although the battle itself lasted only 90 minutes, it was the culmination of a 13-day siege by General Antonio López de Santa Anna’s troops against the outnumbered inhabitants of the fort. Mexicans attacking Texas
Davy Crockett
David “Davy” Crockett was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier” ????? Fought for Texas in the Texas rebellion
Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail is a historic 2,000-mile (3,200-km) trail used by American pioneers living in the Great Plains in the 19th century. The emigrants traveled by wagon in search of fertile land in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
James K Polk- president that fulfilled what?
Manifest destiny???
Mexican War– Border dispute, Mexican Cession
War between Mexico and America where America won and got a lot of land from Mexico in the Mexico cession
John Sutter and the California Gold Rush
John Sutter was living in California and he found gold in his back yard so then word got around about it and everyone went to California to try to get gold as well
Brigham Young
Led his migration to Salt Lake City
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. … In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
John Brown
John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War.
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early-to-mid 19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel “helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War”, according to Will Kaufman.
Fugitive Slave Act
Act that said that if a slave escapes to the north, that if someone finds them they have to return them or they will be punished as well
Kansas-Nebraska Act
passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise
Bleeding Kansas
series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery “Free-Staters” and pro-slavery “Border Ruffian”, or “southern” elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including “Bleeding Congress
Sumner-Brooks Incident
Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner with a cane. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party.
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Dred Scott v Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, also known simply as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law
Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech
Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglass that was mostly about slavery. The House Divided Speech was an address given by Abraham Lincoln (who would later become President of the United States) on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, upon accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination as that state’s United States senator
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell
Causes of the Civil War
The biggest one was slavery and that the north didn’t want it and the south wanted to keep it
Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee was an American general known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865.
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and the best-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee.
First Battle of Bull Run
It was the first major battle of the American Civil War.
Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan is the name applied to an outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. It was meant to choke out the confederates
54th Massachusetts
A regiment for the confederates that had African Americans in it
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (July 1–July 3, 1863), was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America. Unions won
The Battle of Vicksburg
The turning point of the civil war
Sherman’s March to the Sea
When Sherman marched to Savannah Georgia
Lee Surrendering to Grant
When Robert E. lee announced to Grant that the south was going to surrender
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in 1865
14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US including black sin 1866
15th Amendment
Gave black men the right to vote in 1870
Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death
Ford’s theater,John Wilkes booth,Peterson house
10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
Lincoln 10 percent plan- forgave the south
Radical republican plan- wanted it to be harder for the south
Freedman’s Bureau
Helped slaves after they were freed. Helped them read write etc.
Segregation
The separation of races
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that made blacks and whites have to be separated in nearly every public place
Ku Klux Klan
Southern terrorist group that wanted to kill all blacks
