People & People Groups
What were the Free Soil Party's intentions dealing with slavery?
Non-expansion of slavery.
What did the North rely on economically? The South?
The North had manufacturing and the use of free labor.
The South was more reliant on agriculture and slavery.
What was the outcome of the Mexican-America War?
The U.S.: defeated Mexico, gained the Mexico cession, and Mexicans were given the choice to become American citizens.
What provided 160 acres of land in the West with the promise to live on and improve the land in 5 years?
The Homestead Act (1862).
What was the reason for Westward migration to California in the 1840s?
Access to natural and mineral resources.
The California Gold Rush
Where did the large amount of immigrants come from; where did they go; what were their roles?
The Irish settled in cities in the Northeast and were mostly Catholic.
Germans settled on the frontier Midwest as farmers.
Chinese settled on the West Coast and worked in goldmines, factories, and farms.
What racial stereotypes were presented in the South, but had a small appearance in the North?
Ministerial shows (Jim crow).
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A bill proposed after the Mexican War that prohibited slavery or any type of involuntary servitude in the territory acquired from Mexico?
What Act forbade Chinese immigration?
The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882).
What was the spread of U.S. institutions and beliefs?
Manifest Destiny.
Nativism/Nativists beliefs?
Anti-Catholic
Limited immigrants power
The Know-Nothing Party
How did the North and South depend on each other?
South had raw cotton that was shipped to the North so the they could manufacture textiles (clothing).
What were the military advantages for the Union?
The Union had a greater population, the U.S. Navy, and command of rivers.
What were ways that the 13th and 14th Amendments were restricted?
They were restricted by: segregation, violence, civil rights cases, and local political tactics.
The government provided subsidies to what kind of transportation?
Railroads.
What was the role of the Abolitionists?
They were the vocal minority in the North, but had a noticeable campaign.
They were against slavery and helped slaves escape slavery.
What were the social characteristics of the South before the Civil War?
The South had slavery, no transportation, poor banking, cotton, no industry, and private schools.
What were the military advantages of the Confederacy?
The Confederacy had a "home-plate" advantage, fought a defensive war, greater supplies, and experienced commanders.
What were the Reconstruction Amendments?
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
How did the South resist Reconstruction?
"Redeemer" governments & the KKK terrorized blacks and Republicans.
What group of people did the Abolitionists team up with?
Women's Rights Activists.
What were the social characteristics of the South after the Civil War?
They had better education, immigrants, transportation, high tariffs, and manufacturing.
What were some disadvantages for both the North and the South?
The North had to conquer large amounts of land.
The South had a large coastline, which was hard to blockade.
What was the Crittenden Compromise?
The compromise was unsuccessful, but it would have reestablished the free-slave line drawn by the Missouri Compromise. The compromise would have made slavery legal and permanent.
What was the brand new idea brought from American Transcendentalism?
The idea that society and its institutions-religions and political parties- corrupt the purity of the individual.
Progressive views on feminism and communal living.
Main idea did not last very long.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau)