Nationalism and Foreign Policy
Whose presidency had the nickname "Era of Good Feelings"?
James Monroe
Forced journey of the Cherokee from the Southeast to present day Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
Why did the US government remove Native Americans from the Southeast in the 1830s?
White southerners wanted the Native Americans' land
What year did Africans arrive in the colonies as "indentured servants" that would become the first enslaved people?
1619
Slavery was permanently abolished by the...
13th amendment
What is one thing the Freedman's Bureau did?
What term did Americans use in the 1840s to describe the idea that the United States should possess the entire continent?
Manifest Destiny
Where was gold first found and what were gold-seekers called?
Sutter's Mill, Forty-Niners
Turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Lee surrenders to Grant at...
Appomattox Court House
Amendments abolishing slavery, giving equal rights to men and all men the right to vote
13, 14, 15
During the California Gold Rush, about 25,000 laborers migrated to California from....
China
Most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Escaped slave, lecturer and founder of The North Star
Frederick Douglass
What foreign policy said that the US would stay out of European affairs if European powers stayed out of the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine
What helped Jackson win the election of 1828? (list 1 thing)
Universal white male suffrage
Appealing to the common man
Claiming to be a man of humble origins
What caused the South Carolina nullification crisis?
Tariffs
What present day country in West Africa was founded by the American Colonization Society?
Liberia
What group's mission was to find a place in Africa for free blacks and free slaves to immigrate?
American Colonization Society
What was the purpose of the Wilmot Proviso?
Ban slavery from lands that could get into war with Mexico
How much did the US increase in size due to the Mexican cession?
25%
Texan leader who defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto
Sam Houston
First shots of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Person who assassinates Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Southern white men who had been locked out of pre-war politics and collaborated with northerners
scalawags
What were transcendentalists known for?
using nature as a teacher
What was the first women's rights convention in the US?
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin (full name)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What foreign policy gave Florida to the US from Spain?
Adams-Onis Treaty
The House of Representatives
Who was known as the Great Compromiser?
Henry Clay
Which group benefitted most directly from the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v Sandford?
slave owners
Which of the following drew a line north of which any new states would be free and south of which any new states would be slave states?
Missouri Compromise
What were effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? (list 1)
Repealed Missouri Compromise
Created two territories- Nebraska in north and Kansas in south
Let people of the territory vote to be slave or free territory
How did the US and Mexico disagree on the Texas border after the annexation of Texas?
US claimed border at Rio Grande River
Mexico claimed border at Nueces River
US general who won several victories in the Mexican-American War, died of a cherry overdose
Zachary Taylor
Cut Confederacy into 2 parts
Vicksburg (via Anaconda Plan)
Battle of the Ironclads
Monitor v Merrimack
northern white and black men who relocated south for better political or economic opportunity
carpetbaggers
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who was an abolitionist and leader of the Women's movement?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Led raid on federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and responsible for Bleeding Kansas
John Brown
What foreign policy reduced the number of US and British navy ships in the Great Lakes and demilitarized the US-Canada border?
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Why did Northern industrialists favor protective tariffs
raised cost of European goods so more people would buy American
What party formed in response to the election of Andrew Jackson?
Whig Party
What term refers to the idea that settlers had the right to decide whether slavery would be legal in their territory?
Popular sovereignty
Northern support for slavery was most likely based on...
the economic benefits of cotton
Describe the Triangular trade
Americas --> Europe: Sugar, tobacco, cotton
Europe --> Africa: Textiles, rum, manufactured goods
Africa --> Americas: Slaves
In the 1840s and 1850s, Mormons led by Brigham Young settled in present day...
Utah
What was the name of the leader bringing settlers to Texas?
First sizable engagement of the war
Bloodiest single day of war
Antietam
Removes remaining federal troops from the South
Compromise of 1877
What date did NC secede?
May 20, 1861
Abolitionist and women's rights activist best known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman"
Sojourner Truth
Pushed for immediate emancipation with NO compensation
William Lloyd Garrison
nationalism
SCOTUS case that ruled the Cherokee were a distinct and independent nation that is NOT subject to US laws (and Jackson ignored the ruling)
Worcester v Georgia
Who did Jacksonians believe John Quincy Adams made a deal with to win him the presidency? aka helped elect him in the "Corrupt Bargain"
Henry Clay
What did the Missouri Compromise do?
Admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state and abolished slavery above Missouri Compromise line
List 2 outcomes of the Compromise of 1850
Admitted California as a free state
Abolished slave trade in DC
Settled Texas/New Mexico land dispute
Stricter enforcement of Fugitive Slave Act
What were three big arguments used in the South to justify slavery?
Bible, "Happy Slave," slaves benefitted from slavery
What were the 3 'G's to justify Manifest Destiny?
God
Gold
Glory
Gadsden Purchase
Burns Atlanta and everything else on the way to Savannah
Sherman's March to the Sea
Battle of Forks Road
tenant paid rent to landowner, free to pick which crop and live where wanted to:
Worker chose the crop and bought own supplies, gives share of crop to landowners
landowner dictates crops from and gives workers place to live for share of their harvested crop
tenant-farming
share-tenancy
share-cropping
Declared the Bank of the US constitutional because of the "necessary and proper" and "supremacy" clauses of the Constitution
McCulloch v Maryland
Raised awareness of cruel treatment of the mentally ill and helped establish 9 hospitals in the south
Dorothea Dix
from Wilmington, wrote "Appeal...to the Colored Citizens of the World," encouraged blacks to take their freedom by force
David Walker
What was the first state to established tax support for public schools?
Massachusetts
Democratic president who vetoed the charter for the second national bank
Andrew Jackson
South Carolina statesmen who championed nullification (and was Jackson's first VP)
John Calhoun
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
How did the Emancipation Proclamation free slaves?
Union troops could confiscate Confederate property and supplies and slaves were considered property therefore they could set them free
SCOTUS cased that stated descendants of slaves, enslaved men and freed slaves were NOT citizens of the United States
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Where did Oregon territory get split between the US and Britain?
49th parallel
List the four trails that went west we discussed.
Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Mormon Trail, California Trail
Leader of Union forces:
Leader of Confederate Forces:
Grant
Lee
President of the Confederate States of America:
Appointed to be in charge of Union troops in Mississippi:
Jefferson Davis
William Tecumseh Sherman
Why was Johnson impeached?
Violated Tenure of Office Act
Stated that the commerce clause of the Constitution gives the US (Congress) sole power over Interstate Commerce
Gibbons v Ogden
Father of public education
Horace Mann
Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church
Richard Allen