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APUSH Chapter 16, 17

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Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Semiliterate preacher who led a slave revolt in 1831. Nat Turner
A freed black woman who fought for black emancipation and women's rights. Sojourner Truth
An escaped black, who was a great speaker and fought for the Black cause despite being beaten and harassed. Autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Increasingly looked to politics to solve the slavery problem. Frederick Douglass
A movement to end slavery. Abolitionism
Anti-slavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison. The Liberator
Fiction that played on readers' emotions to swell up the abolitionist movement. Uncle Tom's Cabin
Founded in 1833, rallied to Garrison's standards. American Anti-Slavery Society
Author of "The Liberator"; in sense, firing one of the first shots of the Civil War. William Lloyd Garrison
Led a slave rebellion in Charleston in 1822. Denmark Vesey
A black abolitionist, wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829 and advocated a bloody end to white supremacy. David Walker
Inflamed against slavery. Preached against slavery and wrote a pamphlet, "American Slavery As It Is." Theodore Dwight Weld
Brothers who were founders of anti-slavery abolitionist groups. Donated money to underground railroad. Arthur and Lewis Tappan
Virginian who was more of a Democrat than a Whig, 10th President of the United States. John Tyler
Sent by Polk as an envoy to Mexico City to make an offer to purchase California for $25 million. He was coldly turned away. John Slidell
"Old Fuss and Feathers." Advocate of the "anaconda plan." Winfield Scott
Led 4,000 men to march fromt the Nueces River to the Rio Grande. "Old Rough and Ready." Zachary Taylor
Sent to negotiate an armistice with Mexico, at cost of $10,000. Then negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Nicholas P. Trist
Election was seen as a "mandate for the Manifest Destiny." Called "Young Hickory," spponsored by former President Andrew Jackson. James K. Polk
Proposed the Wilmot Proviso, suggesting the Mexican cession lands be closed to slavery. Failed in Senate. David Wilmot
Took California and proclaimed the "Bear Flag Republic." John C. Fremont
Mexican general responsible for the fall of the Texas Revolutions at the Alamo. Santa Anna
Gave Britain their desired Halifax-Quebec route for a road while America got a bit more land north of Maine. Webster-Ashburton Treaty
California movement against Mexican authorities Bear Flag Revolt
Gave America all Mexican territory from TX to CA that was north of the Rio Grande. US hd to pay $15 million to Mexico. $3.5 million in debts from Mexico to the US were absolved as well. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Second anti-Jackson party. In favor of national development. Split into two parties later. Whigs
Name for pre-civil war South. Cotton Kingdom
Became an abolitionist party. By 1848 many members left to join the Free-Soil Party. Liberty party
Founded in 1817 for the purpose of transporting Blacks back to Africa. American Colonization Society
Reverend of Alton, Illinois who impugned the chastity of Catholic women, had his printing press destroyed four times, and was killed by a mob in 1837; he became an abolitionist martyr. Elijah P. Lovejoy
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