Vocab
Canal that connected the cities of Albany and Buffalo, and allowed western farmers to ship crops to sell in the north and northern manufacturers to ship goods to sell in the west
What is the Eerie Canal
He was titled "President for the common man," responsible for Indian Removal Act, involved in the Nullification crisis, Trail of Tears
What is Andrew Jackson
1. Transportation expanded
2. Power source harnessed (water/steam power)
3. Improvements made to industrial processes to accelerate production
4. Government helped American manufacturers by passing protective tariffs
Industrial Revolution
Forced thousands of American Indians to leave their homelands and re-settle west of the Mississippi River. The American Indians would be given land in the west in exchange for the lands they held in the east.
What is the Indian Removal Act
The belief that Americans had the right to move westward.
Manifest Destiny
Abolitionist that published an anti-slavery journal
William Lloyd Garrison
A northern American politician. He developed the American System as well as negotiated numerous compromises. "The Great Compromiser" His platform was the American system.
What is Henry Clay
Man lead black and whites to armory to raid it and give weapons to rebel slaves. North sees him as martyr.
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
In order to maintain the perfect balance of slave states and free states, Missouri was made a slave state and Maine was made a free state. Slavery would be prohibited north of the 36o, 30" line.
What is the Missouri Compromise
The election that Lincoln won as a Republican. Made the south feel as they no longer had a voice in political aspects.
Election of 1860
Horace Mann
He had officially fulfilled Manifest Destiny with the annexation of Oregon. His presidential platform was westward expansion. His slogan in the 1844 election was "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!"
What is James K. Polk
“2 Front War” Began after annex of Texas. US argues border is Rio Grande River, Mexico says it’s Nueces River. Both send troops and they collide, starts war. US wins.
Mexican American War
Declared "popular sovereignty" would determine whether the new territories of "Kansas" and "Nebraska" would have slavery or not. Large numbers of people rushed into these territories, caused "Bleeding Kansas".
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
Focuses of the "common man," it supported to weaken the congress and to improve or strengthen the executive branch.
Jacksonian Democracy
Territories annexed by the growing United States.
Oregon and Texas Annexation
What is Nat Turner
Power struggle between state and federal government. Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 to protect US goods from competition with British. Southerners believed tax harmed consumers. South Carolina nullified the tariffs.
Nullification Crisis
New Mexico was established by carving it from the borders of Texas. New Mexico's voters would decide whether the state prohibited slavery or not. California would be admitted as a free state. All citizens will be required to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their owners. The slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia.
What is the Compromise of 1850
Did not allow a black man to sue because he was not considered a citizen due to the color of his skin.
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Abolitionist societies, one valued returning slaves back to Africa the other pushed for emancipation.
American Colonization Society and American Anti-Society
A suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls. She issued the Declaration of Sentiments and co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony.
What is Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Men and women came together to talk about women’s rights.
Seneca Falls Conference
Pennsylvania Representative David Wilmot introduced legislation in the House of Representatives that boldly declared "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in lands won in the Mexican War. The Wilmot Proviso passed through the House, where the northern states held the majority. However, the Proviso failed in the Senate, where the division between free and slave states was equal.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
Liberty Party