Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

us history mid term > unit 3 > Flashcards

unit 3 Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
AP® U.S. History flashcards U.S. Geography flashcards European History 101 flashcards AP® European History flashcards AP® World History flashcards World History 102 flashcards U.S. History 102 flashcards World History 101 flashcards U.S. History 101 flashcards
1
Q

Zachary Taylor,

A

led the American troops to occupy the contested borderland between the 2 rivers

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

compromise of 1850

A

appeals to north
CA admitted as free state
Appeals to south
Fugitive slave act renewed

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Fugitive slave act

A

required police and citizens to help slave holders cath runaway slaves.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Millard fillmore

A

Pres #13, Taylor died and he becomes president and signs Compromise of 1850 into Law

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Underground railroad

A

Escaped help from a conductor. Providing routes, shelter,food.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Harriet Tubman

A

Helped with the underground railroad.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Uncle Toms cabin

A

written by harriet beecher stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england’s view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Harriet beecher stowe

A

wrote the book “Uncle toms cabin.”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Franklin pierce

A

Pres. #14, democrat, pro-slavery, ineffective at handling slavery debate

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Kanas - Nebraska act

A

cancels MO Compromise (KS- slave and NE- free) and resulted in Bleeding Kansas

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Bleeding kansas

A

bleeding everywhere lots of violence

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

James buchannan

A

Pres #15, democrat, congressmen, doughface

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Dred scott vs sanford

A

Supreme court case supporting that slaves were considered property

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

New republican party

A

They came from KS/NE act, they rejected slavery and popular sovereignty. Didn’t want slavery to spread

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Election of 1860

A

Lincoln wins electoral college, didn’t win any southern votes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

secession

A

Sc immediatley secedes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

The civil war began and ended.

A

Beginning April 12th, 1861. Ending April 9th 1865

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Confederate states of America.

A

(led by Jefferson Davis) wanted to protect slavery

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Border states

A

MD, KY, and MO

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Robert E Lee

A

Strong Army, well trained
home field advantage

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Ulysesses s Grant

A

Stronng Navy, Industury and resocurses, Raildroad network

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Anaconda Plan

A

Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy; cut off ports/rivers to divide South

23
Q

Battle of Bull run

A

General Stonewall Jackson delivers victory for the South. Union learns they need a bigger army

24
Q

Battle of new orleans

A

David Farragant leas attack, union gain control of lagest port in the south.

25
Q

Battle of Shiloh

A

Union cut off rail line. Confederate forces surprised union troops

26
Q

Battle of Antietan

A

Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee’s Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties

27
Q

Battle of Vickysburg

A

confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins

28
Q

Battle of Gettysburg

A

Direct attack on Union, kept Britain out of war, restored Union moral. Turning point of the War that made it clear the north would win.

29
Q

March to sea

A

cut a path across georiga to further divide south; took savannah

30
Q

13th ammendment

A

banning slavery

31
Q

Gentlemans agreement

A

terms of surrender

32
Q

John wilks booth

A

Murderer of Lincoln

33
Q

Reconstruction

A

rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Goverment controls south

34
Q

Thaddeus stevens

A

Leader of the Radical Republicans

35
Q

Freemens Bureau

A

Provided Assitance to nearley freed slaves, Boosted edcuation.

36
Q

Andrew johnson

A

17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.

37
Q

Black codes

A

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

38
Q

14th amendment

A

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

39
Q

Impeach

A

to force someone out of office because of wrongdoing

40
Q

Military reconstruction

A

It divided the South into five military districts

41
Q

15th amendment

A

gave African American men the right to vote

42
Q

Ulysees s grant

A

Union General who forced the surrender of Vicksburg and became general in chief of all Union armies he forced lee to fight a series of decisive battles which led to the Confederate surrender

43
Q

Carpetbaggers

A

northerner who moved south for job opportunities

44
Q

Scalawag

A

White Southner who supported Reconstruction

45
Q

Ku Klux Clan

A

group that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.

46
Q

Share cropping

A

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

47
Q

Tenat farming

A

system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter

48
Q

Rutherford b hayes

A

removed federal troops from South

49
Q

Pless vs Ferguson established

A

separate but equal

50
Q

Ida b wells

A

woman that led a campaign against lynching

51
Q

Booker T washington

A

wanted to gain equality over time, long-term process to end racism

52
Q

W.E.B. DuBois

A

co-founder of NAACP and pushed for equal treatment NOW

53
Q

Battle of Ft. Sumter

A

(April 12, 1861) start of Civil War - South Carolina takes the Union fort there. -quickest, least bloodiest battle in the CW

us history mid term (2 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions