Trizna Cpush Flashcards - Unit 3

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Andrew Jackson

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• Used the spoils system – gave government jobs to political supporters
• Passed Indian Removal Act – Trail of Tears
• Nicknamed “King Andrew” (remember the cartoon)
• Powerful President
  

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Manifest Destiny

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Americans had the right to settle westward all the way to the Pacific Ocean

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Abolitionist Movement

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• Goal was to end slavery
• Organized the Underground Railroad (Harriet Tubman)
• Frederick Douglass (North Star Newspaper)
• William Lloyd Garrison (Liberator Newspaper)
  

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Women's Rights Movement

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• Goal: get equal rights and suffrage for women
• Organized the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
• Leaders were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott
  

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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• A book written to show how evil slavery was
• Used to spread the Abolitionist Movement
• Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  

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Missouri Compromise (1820)

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• Settled a conflict over new states – kept balance between number of free and slave states
• Missouri entered the Union as a slave state
• Maine entered as a free state
  

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Compromise of 1850

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• Settled a conflict over new states – kept balance between number of free and slave states
• Created the Fugitive Slave Law
  

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Fugitive Slave Law

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• Law that allowed slave owners to catch slaves that escaped to the North
• Forced slaves to head to Canada for freedom
• Angered Northerners who were now forced to be a part of slavery
  

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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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• Allowed new states to use popular sovereignty to decide slavery issue
• Bleeding Kansas (John Brown)
  

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Sectionalism

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• Loyalty to a part of the country rather than the country as a whole
• North vs. South vs. West
• Slavery issue increased tensions
  

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Causes of Civil War (4)

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1. Lincoln was elected (1860) – South knew he was against slavery
2. Sectionalism – North and South were very different places
3. State’s Rights – Southern states wanted states’ rights to decide slavery (Nullification)
4. Secession – Lincoln and the North was fighting to preserve the Union
   

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North's Strengths During Civil War

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• More railroads than the South
• More factories than the South
• Factory production increased
  

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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• 1857
• Decided that slaves are property not citizens
• Missouri Compromise voided – government can’t prohibit slavery in territories

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Emancipation Proclamation

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• Lincoln freed slaves in the Confederacy
• Civil War became a fight over ending slavery
  

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Reconstruction

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• Plan to “fix” south after the Civil WarLincoln’s plan was too lenient on the South

• 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments passed

• Freedmen’s Bureau helped former slaves

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Black Codes

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• Southern laws to limit rights of African Americans

• Poll taxes, grandfather clause, literacy tests (prevent African Americans from voting)

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Mexican-American War

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• A dispute over the border of Texasand Mexico led to this war in 1848
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgogave the U.S. the land known as theMexican Cession and set off anotherwave of arguments over theexpansion of slavery.

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California Gold Rush

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• Many Americans went out west insearch of gold in 1848.
• It led to population growth in thewest, especially California.

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Homestead Act

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• 1862
• Federal government plan to givehomesteads to any people that wouldwork the land for 5 years.
• This encouraged settlement of theGreat Plains.
  

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Presidential Reconstruction

(Lincoln & Johnson's Reconstruction Plans)

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• Believed southern states never leftthe Union
• 10% of voters needed to take anoath of loyalty
• States must abolish slavery in theirnew Constitutions.
  

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Congressional Reconstruction

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• South divided into 5 military districts
• New state constitutions must bewritten
• Blacks must be given the right to vote
• States must ratify the 14thamendment
• Former southern Confederate leaderswere barred from office and voting
  

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13th Amendment

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Outlawed slavery

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14th Amendment

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Made former slavecitizens and entitled to due process

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15th Amendment

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Gives freed blacks theright to vote

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Republican Party

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• A sectional political organization founded in the1850’s to oppose slavery.
• Their first platform was, “Free Soil, FreeLabor, Free Men.”
• Lincoln's party