Exam 3 Flashcards
(39 cards)
- westward expansion
- indians being pushed out
Manifest Destiny
- major third party
- dedicated to the abolition (immediate destruction)
- william lloyd garrison (“the liberator”)
Liberty Party (Radical Abolition)
assets (slaves)
antebellum south per capita investments
skilled craftsmen and craftswomen
artisan slaves
mix of an african language and english
gullah language
- the family (40-80 acres) that did not have slaves 2/3 of the population
“up country whites”
girly and naive
southern lady/sapphire image
slave owners were scared of their slaves (kentucky)
the conjure chest
anti-slavery: work through the law to try to change the system
abolitionism/anti-slavery movement
- david wilmot (representative from pennsylvania)
- failed proposal in 1846 to ban slavery in any territory acquired from mexico
wilmot proviso
- california enters union as free state
- new mexico split in two parts: NM and Utah
- texas’ boundary as modern boundary
- strengthen fugitive slave law to help catch runaways
- the slave trade, but not slavery, abolished in D. C.
henry clay’s compromise of 1850
authority in a gov. resides in the people
popular sovereignty
kansas-nebraska act
stephen a. douglas
- henry ward beecher (preacher) tells congregation to vote against slavery tells them to kill slave owners if “necessary”
- david atchinson, cheats, people from missouri to vote for slavery
bleeding kansas (1854-1856)
- “moses”
- chop people up as a warning to people for slavery
- raid harper’s ferry 1859 - not successful
- sentenced to death
john brown
- sc ruled that the fed. gov. did not have the right to exclude slavery and declared afri. amer. were not citizens
dred scott decision
- july 21, 1861
- union lost 5,000 and confederacy lost 2,000
- people came to watch as if this was a show
- advanced weaponry
first bull run/first manassas
- did not free slaves
- promise to the slaves, to get the south riled up
emancipation proclamation (1865)
- nov. 19th, 1863
- speech under 2 min.
gettysburg address
- nov. 15 - dec. 21, 1864
- lost cause narrative
- destroy everything in their path, warning to the south
sherman’s march to the sea
- the dirtier the doctor, more experience
- 2/3 of the deaths of soldiers was from disease
- whiskey and morphine
- mortally wounded, slightly wounded, and surgical cases
- amputation kit
civil war medicine
- presidential reconstruction
- 10% of a state’s voters swore an oath of loyalty, they could form a new state gov.
- trying to unite the south and the north
lincoln’s 10% plan (1863)
alive/gold & trees
true conspiracys??
john wilkes booth/KGC
a established in 1865 to aid formerly enslaved people and pour whites in the south
freedman’s bureau
