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John Tyler
James K. Polk
Millard Filmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
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Meant to keep government out of banking. Vaults were to be constructed in various cities to collect and expand government funds in gold and silver. Proposed after the National Bank was destroyed as a method for maintaining government funds with minimum risk -- vetoed by Tyler, passed by Polk
What is Independent Treasury Act, 1841?
100
Created March, 1836 but not recognized until the next month after the battle of San Jacinto. Its second president attempted to establish a sound government and develop relations with England and France. However, rapidly rising public debt, internal conflicts and renewed threats from Mexico led this state to join the U.S. in 1845.
What is Texas?
100
Called for the admission of California as a free state, organizing Utah and New Mexico with out restrictions on slavery, adjustment of the Texas/New Mexico border, abolition of slave trade in District of Columbia, and tougher fugitive slave laws. Its passage was hailed as a solution to the threat of national division.
What is Compromise of 1850?
100
After the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgowas signed, the U.S. realized that it had accidentally left portions of the southwestern stagecoach routes to California as part of Mexico. James Gadsen, the U.S. Minister to Mexico, was instructed by President Pierce to draw up a treaty that would provide for the purchase of the territory through which the stage lines ran, along which the U.S. hoped to also eventually build a southern continental railroad. This territory makes up the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico.
What is the Gadsden Purchase, 1853?
100
Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
200
Established Maine's northern border and the boundaries of the Great Lake states (after the Arrostook War)
What is Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842?
200
This man leads the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah, where they founded the Mormon republic of Deseret. Believed in polygamy and strong social order. Others feared that the Mormons would act as a block, politically and economically.
Who is Brigham Young?
200
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by this woman in reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; It has been called the greatest American propaganda novel ever written, and helped to bring about the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and established a doctrine of congressional nonintervention in the territories. Popular sovereignty (vote of the people) would determine whether Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free states
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This man delivers the "House Divided" speech
Who Abraham Lincoln?
300
High Point of "OLD IMMIGRATION" -- Name two groups involved in "old immigration"
What are German, Irish, Scandinavians?
300
Causes: annexation of Texas, diplomatic ineptness of U.S./Mexican relations in the 1840's and particularly the provocation of U.S. troops on the Rio Grande. The first half of the war was fought in northern Mexico near the Texas border, with the U.S. Army led by Zachary Taylor. The second half of the war was fought in central Mexico after U.S. troops seized the port of Veracruz, with the Army being led by Winfield Scott. Results: U.S. captured Mexico City, Zachary Taylor was elected president, Santa Anna abdicated, and Mexico ceded large parts of the West, including New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, to the U.S.
What is Mexican-American War, 1846-1848?
300
recommendation that the U.S. offer Spain $20 million for Cuba. It was not carried through in part because the North feared Cuba would become another slave state.
What is Ostend Manifesto?
300
Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, pro-slavery forces from Missouri, known as the Border Ruffians, crossed the border into Kansas and terrorized and murdered antislavery settlers. Antislavery sympathizers from Kansas carried out reprisal attacks, the most notorious of which was John Brown's 1856 attack on the settlement at Pottawatomie Creek. The war continued for four years before the antislavery forces won.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
300
In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at this location. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed.
What is Harper's Ferry, Va?
400
Coined by John L. O'Sullivan -- widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent; reasons for going to war with Mexico, and divide Oregon Territory at 54 40'
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
The Oregon Treaty of 1846 established an U.S./Canadian (British) border along this parallel -- the campagin had been "54 40' or Fight"
What is 49th?
400
A self-educated slave who escaped in 1838, Douglas became the best-known abolitionist speaker. He edited an anti-slavery weekly, the North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
The pro-slavery constitution suggested for Kansas' admission to the union. It was rejected.
What is Lecompton (proslavery) Constitution?
400
A desperate measure to prevent the Civil War, introduced by John Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, in December 1860. The bill offered a Constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in the territories south of the 36ยบ30' line, noninterference by Congress with existing slavery, and compensation to the owners of fugitive slaves. Republicans, on the advice of Lincoln, defeated it.
What is proposed Crittenden Compromise?
500
This invented sent the first telegram from DC to Balitomore in 1844 stating, "What hath God wrought?"
Who is Samuel Morse?
500
Site of the first modern women's right convention. At the gathering, Elizabeth Cady Staton read a Declaration of Sentiment listing the many discriminations against women, and adopted eleven resolutions, one of which called for women's suffrage.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848?
500
made any Federal marshal or other official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000 (about $28,000 in present-day value). Law-enforcement officials everywhere now had a duty to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave on no more evidence than a claimant's sworn testimony of ownership. The suspected slave could not ask for a jury trial or testify on his or her own behalf. In addition, any person aiding a runaway slave by providing food or shelter was subject to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. Officers who captured a fugitive slave were entitled to a bonus or promotion for their work
What is Fugitive Slave Act 1850?
500
Invented a new process of converting iron to steel -- would help make the steel industry boom following the Civil War
Who is Henry Bessemer?
500
Name 4 of the states that seceded upon Abraham Lincoln being elected in 1860.
What are SC, MS, FL, AL, GA, LA?