Final Study Guide Flashcards
(20 cards)
Know-Nothings
Nautralist, Anti-immigration, American Party, Protestants
Mexican American War
U.S gains Texas, California, New Mexico
Manifest Destiny
U.S to rule from Atlantic to Pacific
Wilmot Proviso
Ban slavery in new territories, grew power of republican party.
Oregon Trail
Missouri to Oregon, 1 of 2 main paths of emigration to the west.
Forty Niners
Miners who went to california
Sutters Mill
Where James Marshall found gold in california starting gold rush
Death of the Whig Party
Republicans, Know-nothings drew members away from whigs.
Rise of republican party
Unite against spread of slavery, antislavery party
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay California is Free State Texas sells land, gov assumes debt Land becomes utah / new mexico New states decided by popular sovereignty DC Abolish Slavery Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave Law
provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory.
Neal Dow
Rum Riots, Mayor of Portland
Uncle Toms Cabin
Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe of Maine
Seneca Falls Convention
assembly, Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the woman suffrage movement. Home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Kansas Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas, Kansas / Nebraska decide free or slave via popular soveringty
John Brown, Harpers Ferry
White Abolitionist seeking to start slave insurrection
Dred Scott decision
Supreme Court ruling finding African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional.
Number of Slaves in South
3.67 million, %40
Slave Codes
Designate people as property
Illegal for blacks to not have jobs
illegal to have certain property
Nat Turner Rebellion
Slave Rebellion, 75-80 blacks rallied to turner, slaughtered 60 southerners
