Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
36 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
Free Soil Party
|
political party in the United States active in the 1848. purpose was opposing of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free soil comprised a morally/economically superior system to slavery
|
|
Fugitive Slave Law
|
Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This was one of the most controversial acts
|
|
Harriet Tubman
|
she made 13 missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad
|
|
Ostend Manifesto
|
Document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain and implied the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused
|
|
Kansas Nebraska Act
|
territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries
|
|
Wilmot Proviso
|
would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future
|
|
William Lloyd Garrison
|
was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer
|
|
Frederick Douglas
|
was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
|
|
Popular Sovereignity
|
belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power
|
|
Underground Railroad
|
informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause
|
|
Compromise of 1850
|
five bills, passed in September 1850, defusing a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North
|
|
dred scott decision
|
Dred Scott decision, was a ruling by Africans imported into the United States and held as slaves or their descendants were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens
|
|
panic of 1857
|
financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and overexpansion
|
|
uncle toms cabin
|
anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
|
bleeding kansas
|
violent events, involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory
|
|
crittenden compromise
|
unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis
|
|
fort sumter
|
surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Garrison commander Anderson refused
|
|
jefferson davis
|
American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
|
|
anaconda plan
|
widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War
|
|
robert e lee.
|
united states army officer and combat engineer.
|
|
ulysses s. grant
|
the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War
|
|
iron clads
|
warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates
|
|
battle of antietam
|
the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil
|
|
emancipation proclamation
|
issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers
|
|
54th regimen
|
infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
|
|
morril traffic act 1861
|
American protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861 during the Buchanan Administration and signed into law by President James Buchanan
|
|
homestead act 1862
|
gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River
|
|
legal tender act 1862
|
cases in the latter part of the nineteenth century that affirmed the constitutionality of paper money
|
|
pacific railway act 1862
|
series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States
|
|
national bank act 1863
|
two United States federal laws that established a system of national charters for banks
|
|
battle of vicksburg
|
final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War
|
|
copperheads
|
vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States
|
|
new york draft riots 1863
|
violent disturbances in New York City that were cause by discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in Civil War
|
|
appomattox
|
final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army
|
|
trent affair
|
USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet Trent and removed as contraband of war two Confederate diplomats
|
|
Battle of Gettysburg
|
The battle with the largest number of casualties in the Civil War it is often described as the war's turning point
|