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History Final
FInal exam
Question | Answer |
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Mason-Dixon Line | a demarcation line separating four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia |
5 Civilized Tribes | Cherokee,Chotaw,Creek,Chickasaw,Seminole |
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia | U.S. state of Georgia depriving them of rights within its boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits. |
Worcester v. Georgia | group of white missionaries,who were living in Cherokee territory. were helping the Cherokee resist Georgia’s attempts to take away their land. Georgia made it illegal for them to stay |
First Battle of Bull Run | first large land battle fought during the Civil War. It ended up a clear victory for the Confederates. |
battle of Antietam | Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George McClellan's Army . The battle was the culmination of Lee's attempt to invade the North The Union emerged victorious. |
Emancipation Proclamation | the announcement made by President Lincoln during the Civil War, slaves freed in confederate territory |
Sherman’s March to the Sea | Sherman’s March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause |
American Colonization Society | founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the migration of freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to the continent of Africa |
The Liberator | the most widely circulated anti-slavery newspaper during the antebellum period and throughout the Civil War.by William Lloyd Garrison |
Silent Sabotage/Day to Day Resistance | Slave Spirituals |
Compromise of 1850 | five bills to fix disputes on slavery in new territories, as mex v US started. Cali now free state, left Utah/New Mex to decide. defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act |
Slaveholding Statistics | 76.1% of white families in the United States did not own slaves. Of the remaining families, 17.2% owned between 1 and 9 slaves, 6.6% owned between 10 and 99 slaves, and 0.1% owned over 100 slaves |
Manifest Destiny | Manifest destiny was a cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that White American settlers were destined to expand across North America. |
Paternalism | Paternalism is action that limits a person's or group's liberty or autonomy and is intended to promote their own good. |
Wilmot Proviso | unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. |
Fire Eaters | a group of pro-slavery Democrats in the antebellum South who urged the separation of Southern states into a new nation |
Gang Labor | gang labor involved the supervised synchronic work of a group of field hands. A carefully selected worker set the pace; the others were required to follow his or her example, |
Bleeding Kansas | small civil war fought between pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty (Kansas-Nebraska Act) |
Task System | each enslaved person is assigned a specific task to complete for the day. After that task is finished, the enslaved person is then free to do what they want |
Joseph Smith | an American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. |
Mormons | a member or follower of a millenarian Christian movement founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith Jr |
Oneida Community | was established by John Humphrey Noyes. The members of the community were also called Perfectionists or Bible Communists. Complex marriage, followers purity of heart, no sin existed/ Utopian Communities |
David Walker’s Appeal | Wrote, “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World” which urged enslaved people to fight for their freedom and was one of the most radical documents of the antislavery movement. |
Popular sovereignty | the idea that people have the power to create and change their government |
Secession (1st | Dec,20,1860; South Cali first to leave union followed by GA,FL AL, LA,TX, MS |
runaway slaves | mostly men slaves did this, women had children |
shakers | Organized by Mother Ann Lee, Social Radical; celibacy; full equality |
Secession (2nd | Followed after South Cali later/ TN,ARK,N,UA |
Harriet Tubman | underground railroad most famous conductor |
Phases of the Civil War | Romantic War, Gentleman's or limited War, Total War |
Election of 1860 | North; Abe Lincoln, Stephen Douglass. South; John Bell Constitutional Union; John Breackindge |
Shakers | known because of their ecstatic behavior during worship services. Espousing egalitarian ideals, women took on spiritual leadership roles alongside men. |
John Brown’s Raid | effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). tragic prelude to, the Civil War |
Dred Scott Decision | U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, |
Lyman Beecher | credited as one of the driving forces behind the Second Great Awakening in early part of 19th century. Beecher argued that civic morality was indispensable for the preservation of republican government2. |
Sen. Charles Sumner | was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery. an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who represented Massachusetts |
Crittenden Compromise | an unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, and thereby make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery. |
Nat Turner’s Rebellion | was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Led by Nat Turner, the rebels killed between 55 and 65 White people, making it the deadliest slave revolt in U.S. history. |
Utopian/ Religious Communities | Shakers, Mormons, Oneida |
Panic of 1819 | the first widespread and durable financial crisis in the United States that slowed westward expansion in the Cotton Belt and was followed by a general collapse of the American economy that persisted through |
William Lloyd Garrison | made The Liberator |
Specie | metal coin, or "hard money," as opposed to paper money |
American System | 19th-century economic policy known for promoting government-driven economic growth and development in the United States through internal manufacturing and trade. |
Dorothea Dix | an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill |
Minstrels | performed songs which told stories of distant places or of existing or imaginary historical events. |
Jefferson Davis | an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States of America |
Horace Mann | an American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education |
Dorr War | was an attempt by disenfranchised residents to force broader democracy in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, where a small rural elite was in control of government. |
Era of Good Feelings | |
Declaration of Sentiments | |
Impact of the EP | |
Adams-Onis Treaty | |
Stephen Austin | |
Clara Barton | |
MO Compromise | |
Filibustering | |
Vicksburg | |
Monroe Doctrine | |
Tejanos | |
Gettysburg | |
Corrupt Bargain | |
Andersonville | |
Copperheads | |
Spoils System | |
The Alamo | |
Indian Removal Act | |
Antonio López de Santa Anna | |
Thirteenth Amendment | |
Battle of San Jacinto | |
Robert E. Lee | |
Sam Houston | |
Lincoln’s Assassination | |
Mexican War | |
Charles Leale | |
Trail of Tears | |
Whig Party | |
Fourteenth Amendment | |
Nullification | |
Spot Resolution | |
Fifteenth Amendment | |
Bank War of 1832 | |
Henry David Thoreau | |
1863 NYC Draft Riots | |
Pro-Slavery Argument |