Unit 4 Flashcards
(31 cards)
Samuel Slayer
who:considered the father of american industrial revolution
what: he brought british textile tech to america
impact: established the first water power cotton mill and the first tever stile mill in the us
Market Revolution
who:samuel slater
what:change of workers from market to laborers or industrial owners as a result of the industrial revolution
impact:innovations in transportation, communication, and factory productions got westward expansion and urbanization
industrial revolution
who: samuel slater
what: significant tech advances cause the economy, a shift dramatically from agriculture and artisan based to relying on manufactured products
impact: New machines new power sources a new way of organizing work makes exist new industries, more productive and efficient
Lowell Textile Mill
who: francis cabot lowell
what: text Al factory system that employed mainly young women from farms to increase efficiency, productivity, and profits
impact: used water power, most successful textile mill in America,created town system
Cotton Gin
who: eli Whitney
what: machine the separates cotton fibers, made cotton production, more efficient, allowing one person to process a lot of cotton
impact: increase in slavery during a time when the US was starting to see a decrease in it
Free Soilers
who: Martin Van Buren, salmon Chase
what: organize by anti-slavery men Who were resentful of Polks action, against the westward expansion of slavery
impact: foreshadowed the emergence of the new Republic party was a small antislavery party, but influential
sectionalism
who: north and south
what: Sport of a particular region or section of the nation rather than the United States as a whole
impact: major causes the US Civil War because it created a southern social life and shaped political tendencies
wilmot proviso
who: Pennsylvania Democrat, congressman David Wilmot
what: hi prohibited, the expansion of slavery into territory acquired by the United States from Mexico, as a result of the Mexican-American war was unsuccessful
impact: first attempt by federal government to ban slavery in the west
Compromise of 1850
who: Henry Clay
what: California is a pre-state people. The new territories of New Mexico and Utah would decide slavery by popular sovereignty. Slave trade was ended in Washington DC. Congress would pass a strict new fugitive slave law Texas would claim to New Mexico
impact: allowed a lot of new occurrence that led to north and south issues
Fugitive Slave act
who: James Mason
what: required northern government to cooperate in the capture of escape, slaves, and accused slave waste of federal trial without the jury
impact:
made slavery, more strict slaves had to travel further to be free also make Federal government responsible for finding runaway slaves
popular sovereignty
who: lewis class
what: idea that people living in the territory should decide whether or not slavery is prohibited
impact: free sailers and Presley reactive is flooded. The states to vote for a free slave state.
uncle toms cabin
who: harriet beecher stowe
what: novel written that defected the evil side of slavery
impact: show Northerners and the world the horrors of slavery contributed to the start of the Civil War
Kansas Nebraska act
who: stephan douglas
what: A lot of people in the territories of Kansas, Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow layer within their borders
impact: repealed the Missouri compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery north of the latitude, 3630 mandated popular sovereignty
bleeding kansas
who: pro slave vs anti slave
what: series of violent civil confrontation in Kansas, which emerged from a political debate over the
legality of slavery in Kansas
impact: foreshadows the violence of the civil war
Dred scott v Sanford
who: dred scott(slave)
what: decision involved in Missouri, slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his stay in the northern part meant from the Missouri compromise made him a free man
impact: The US Supreme Court decided he couldn’t sue since he was not a citizen and said the compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional
“New” Republic party
who: republicans, anti slavery whigs,, anti slave try democrats, free soilers
what: dedicated to keeping slavery out of new territories
impact: rising tension between the north and south this party will eventually abolish slavery
Freeport Doctrine
who: stephen douglas
what: during the Lincoln Douglas debates Douglas said in his Freeport Doctrine that in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation
impact: directly led to the split of the Democratic party
Lincoln Douglas Debate
who: Abraham Lincoln/Stephan douglas
what: series of 7 debates largely concerning the issues of slavery and extension
impact: propelled Lincoln political career. Lincoln wanted to stop expiation, Douglas wanted popular sovereingty
Harpers Ferry( John Brown Raid)
who: John brown
what: an effort for a slave revolt where brown brought several abolistions to try to give slaves weapons to protest against slavery
impact: south saw brown as a martyr for abolitionism and assumed all northerns like that
Election of 1860
who: Abreaham Lincoln, Stephan Douglas, John Bell, John Breckinridge
what: election where Lincoln was voted pres
impact: caused the southern states to secede from the union because they felt like they weren’t being herd
Fort Sumter
who: confederacy v. untion
what: south Carolina location where the first shotw of the civil war happend
impact: the south ignited the fighting of the civil war
Anaconda Plan
who: Winfield scott
what: a plan which was to have a blockade on the southern ports and went down the missisippi river causing the south to cut in two
impact: the plan would isolate the south from the world
Battle of the Bull Run
who: confed v untion
what: confederate troops forced the untion to retreated and the first major battle on land during the war. confed won
impact: gave the south confidence and shocked the north. kept Richmond VA the capital of confederacy
Writ of Habeas Corpus
who: Abraham lincoln
what: person must be in the court in order to be tried
impact: suspended to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels
