1830-1850
What were the Preemption Acts and what year were they?
Allowed stragglers to buy land for cheap in west (Established settlements in West) 1831-1841
What did the Gyattsden Purchase do? (1853)
- Gave U.S more territory in Mexican Cession (Strip of land)
- Provided land for Southern Transcontinental R.R
- Attempted to resolve lingering conflict w/ Mexico
What did the North want vs. what the South wanted?
- North (Lincoln) wanted to preserve the Union
- South wanted States rights to preserve their ways of life (slavery too but not the main goal)
What was Freedmans Bureau?
- Assisted former slaves + impoverished whites in the South + District of Columbia
- Helped people establish schools, purchase land, locate family, and legalize marriages
What movement opposed the 15th Amendment?
The National Womens Suffrage movement
What years did James K. Polk president serve?
1845-1849
What was the Ogsden Manifesto? (1854) Who proposed it? What it passed or rejected?
- Polk's attempt to buy Cuba from Spain
- Pierce rejected
What years did the Civil War last? (Also years Lincoln served)
1861-1865
What did states do post-reconstruction that endorsed discrimination?
Black codes
What declaration was declared at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Declaration of Sentiments
What party rose due to the Wilmot Proviso? Describe the party.
Free Soil Party (1848-1854)
- Didn't support slavery
- Northern Democrats + Whigs
- Wanted homestead for settlers (free soil)
- Didn't want to compete w/ Africans for land
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? (1854) What year did it occur? What did it lead to?
- Kansas + Nebraska became states + split
- Overturned Missouri Compromise (Because it estab. popular sovereignty in Kansas + Nebraska + Kansas said yes to slavery)
- Led to Bleeding Kansas (1854-1859), which led to Civil War
What officially marked the end of the Civil War?
When Robert E. Lee. officially surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia (1865)
What was sharecropping?
Landowners allowed tenants to live on their land in return for the crops they produced.
What state was the first to secede the Union, causing other states to follow them?
South Carolina
What was the Wilmot Proviso and what was its effect? What year was it?
- Increased tensions between North + South
- 1846
What did Pierce do in his presidency? (Hint: Had to do with land + slavery)
Gyattsden Purchase (1853), rejected Ogsten Manifesto (1854), + passed Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
What was the first battle in the Civil War? What did it lead to?
Battle of Antietam -> Victory in Union -> Recognized by Britain + France, Lincoln estab. Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
What was the 10% plan? Who passed/proposed it?
- 10% of South had to pledge loyalty to Union
- Passed 13th Amendment
- Made by Lincoln
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
Nativist anti-immigrant group
What happened during the Mexican-American War, what years was it, and how was it resolved?
- U.S wanted to buy S.W land + Mexico said no -> War
- 1846-1848
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: U.S bought MX Cession + Mexicans displaced
What was the Compromise of 1850? Who proposed it? Who passed it?
- Established popular sovereignty in Utah + Mexico
- Established borders in N.M, TX, + Utah
- Cali free state
- New fugitive slave laws
- Banned slave trade in District of Columbia
- Proposed by Henry Clay, passed by Fillamore
What was the turning point battle in the Civil War? What occurred in that battle and What year did it take place? What did Lincoln declare?
Battle of Gettysburg- Slaves escaped + aided North, South retreated -> Union confident
- 1863
- Gettysburg Address declared the fight was for human equality, not just preserving the Union
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
What year was the Seneca Falls Convention?
1848