Chapters 14-15
The "Corrupt Bargain" allowed which man to become president in 1824.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
A philosophy emphasizing that people should transcend, or go beyond, logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition.
What is Transcendentalism?
An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union.
What is the Confederacy?
A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865 while Lincoln was president, abolishing slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A tax imposed by the government on goods imported from another country.
What is a Tariff?
A female former slave and she preached about how religiously there should not be slavery.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The general that created the Anaconda Plan.
Who is General Winfield Scott?
Laws passed in 1865 and 66 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
There was a short war in 1832 with Native American forces and US Military.
Inigo, sugarcane, rice, and tobacco, cotton.
What are cash crops?
Created and led by Henry Clay against the Democrat Party.
What is the Whig Party?
This general got a nickname for standing firm during the battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas Jackson?
The real problem was that owners of the land would sell food, seeds, tools, and supplies to create the crop which would make the person in debt to them, this would really end in poverty and debt for the rest of their life.
What is Sharecropping?
The Native American Tribe that lived in Florida.
Who are the Seminole Tribe?
A hand-operated machine that clean seeds and other unwanted material from cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was created by this man who wanted to build a railroad through America from the East coast to the West.
Who is Stephen Douglass?
The right of an accused person to appear in court so a judge can determine whether he or she is being imprisoned lawfully.
What is the Habeas Corpus?
Northerners were called this nickname moving towards the South during Reconstruction.
What is carpetbaggers?
The mission that the Texans held up against the large Mexican Army.
What is the Alamo?
Invented the steel-tipped plow which decreased the need for so many people preparing the land for crops.
Who is John Deere?
California is admitted to the Union as a free state
The New Mexico and Utah territories would be open to slavery
Slave trade would be banned in DC, however slavery was still allowed.
4. They would push for a stricter fugitive slave law that would reclaim runaway slaves.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw would lead these men as they were the first regiment to be an all black regiment. They would be sent south to Charleston where they would be attacking this fort.
What is Fort Wagner?
In 1896 the case that found Jim Crow Laws did not violate the 14th Amendment and that segregation could remain as long as it was fair to both parties.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?