People
APUSH Terms
Miscelanious
Amdmts/Acts
Civil War Battles
100
Led a group of slaves that Killed about 60 whites in Hampton, Virginia.
What is Nat Turner
100
Belief that the United States, and the United States alone, was granted by God the will and the right to settle the rest of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Various laws and rules put into place by southerners to regain control over blacks after the Civil War.
What is Black Codes
100
Granted citizenship to all blacks.
What is 14th Amendment
100
Opening engagement of the Civil War. It was bombed by confederate soldiers for two days until Union troops surrendered.
What is Fort Sumter
200
This man was a militant abolitionist, and became editor of the Boston publication, The Liberator, in 1831.
What is William Lloyd Garrison
200
A euphemism for slavery and the economic ramifications of it in the South. The term aimed to get rid of the contradiction of legalized slavery in a country whose Declaration of Independence states that, "all men are created equal." It was one of the key causes of the Civil War…. Formed in 1854 by a coalition of the Free soil, Know Nothing, Renegade Whig parties. It was a liberal, anti-slavery party.
What is Peculiar institution What is Republican Party
200
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom after living in a northern portion of Louisiana for four years. He claimed that this made him and free man. The federal court decided that he wasn't allowed to sue because he was federal property, not a citizen…. After the U.S. signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, they realized they had left out portions of the southwest stagecoach routes to California. James Gadson the U.S. Minister to Mexico was called to draw up a treaty that would purchase these territories from Mexico in order to build a southern continental railroad. This territory makes up Parts of Arizona and New Mexico.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford What is Gadsden Purchase
200
Abolished slavery, and involuntary servitude.
What is 13th Amendment
200
September 17th 1862, this battle ended the first confederate invasion into the north and gave Abraham Lincoln the will to pass the emancipation proclamation.
What is Battle of Antietam
300
A self-educated slave who escaped in 1838, and became the best-known abolitionist speaker.
What is Frederick Douglass
300
The South was governed by a select few rich people who were the head of southern society. They determined the political, economic, and social life of their region. The wealthiest had homes in towns as well as summer homes, they traveled widely, and children got good education. These people were defined as the cotton magnates, the sugar, rice, and tobacco, the whites who owned at least 40 or 50 slaves and 800 or more acres.... She wrote the abolitionist book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was the Book that helped to crystallize the rift between the North and South. It has been called the greatest American propaganda novel ever written, and helped to bring about the Civil War.
What is Planter aristocracy What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin
300
Consisted of: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These were slave states that did not secede from the union. The states were valuable assets to both the confederacy and the Union…. In 1859 John Brown, a militant abolitionist, raided the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. His plan failed and he was executed.
What is Border states What is Harper’s Ferry
300
Doctrine in which Lincoln freed all slaves in the ceded territories only, after the battle of Antietam. Lincoln couldn't enforce this because the confederacy had already created their own government and constitution.
What is Emancipation Proclamation
300
The battle was a Union victory and was the confederacy's last attempted invasion on the North. This was a turning point for the North.
What is Battle of Gettysburg
400
A very important confederate leader who was crucial in many Confederate victories…. A Democratic Southerner from Tennessee elected as vice president under Abraham Lincoln. After Lincoln was assassinated, he became president. He opposed radical republicans and was the first president who was almost impeached.
What is Robert E. Lee What is Andrew Johnson
400
A secret aid to escaping slaves that abolitionists provided in years leading up to the American Civil War…. Strongly opposed slavery during the Civil War and vouched for harsh punishments against the confederacy during reconstruction.
What is Underground Railroad What is Radical Republicans
400
Election Between the Northern Democrats(Douglas), Southern Democrats(Breckenridge), Republicans(Lincoln), and Constitutional Union(Bell). Won by Lincoln and the Republicans…. Admitted California as a free states and placed no restrictions on slavery in Utah and New Mexico. It adjusted the Texas and New Mexico Border, abolished slave trade in the District of Columbia and enforced strict fugitive slave laws. It was supposed to be the solution to the threat of National division.
What is Election of 1860 What is Compromise of 1850
400
Repealed the Missouri Compromise and established a doctrine of congressional nonintervention in the territories. Popular sovereignty would decided if Kansas and Nebraska were free or Slave states.
What is Kansas Nebraska Act
400
With a Union victory in this battle, the Union troops took control of the Mississippi river which split the south in half. This was a major tactical victory for the North.
What is Siege at Vicksburg
500
The Unions most competent General. He became a war hero during the civil war and eventually became President of the United States…. An actor who planned to abduct President Lincoln at the start of the war. When his plan failed, he proceeded to shoot Lincoln in the Back of the head at Fords theatre. He was later killed either by himself or by a soldier.
What is Ulysses S. Grant What is John Wilkes Booth
500
America purchased Alaska from Russia for 7 million dollars. Overall this was viewed as an unneeded purchase and was ridiculed…. Founded in 1866, this group spread through almost every southern state. They opposed all who promoted equality for blacks and used violence against the black community.
What is Seward’s Folly What is the Ku Klux Klan
500
An attempted Presidential impeachment by opposing radical republicans who disagreed with the President’s views and believed he had abused his power…. As part of the Treaty of Hidalgo, the U.S. gained:Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah, Nevada and Colorado
What is Andrew Johnson Impeachment What is Mexican Cession
500
Doctrine stating that people of a territory had the right to deciding their own laws by voting. This would decide whether a territory allowed slavery in the Kansas Nebraska act.
What is Popular Sovereignty
500
Confederate troops surrendered after being surrounded by Union forces. This ended the fighting in the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House
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