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History
Civil war history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King Cotton | Slogan of south secessionists to claim feasibility; nickname for cotton huge cash crop in lower south |
| Upper south | diverse culture not necessarily dependent on slavery; Maryland Virginia, Nroth Carolina |
| Industrialization in the south | Economic change, migration, immigration, population growth; light industry moved offshore-replaced by auto manufacturers, tourism, energy production |
| Social Groups in the south | Planter elites, yeoman farmers, poor freemen |
| Internal Slave Trade | Domestic slave trade among colonies in 1760 as a source of labor in early America; started w/ Native American to importing slaves from Africa |
| Characteristics of Slavery | Hideous labor pushed onto someone else; slaves 1/3 of population; lived on farms or plantations; masters owned less than 50, sought to make them dependent on them and had restrictive code |
| Slave Resistance | Slave resisted bondage in a variety of ways (active & passive); slaves acts of resistance as an attempt to claim freedom, less defined as property |
| Slave Rebellions | Armed uprising by slaves, lesson on African desire for Liberty; Largest slave revolt ever in 13 colonies was Stono Rebellion |
| Immigration early 1800's | Came f/ northern and Western Europe; southern and Eastern Europe brought most most important forces in American life |
| Alamo | Former Franciscan mission in San AntonioMexican force seized the fort against Texans; 13 day battle; symbol of heroic resistance and oppresion |
| Texas 1820's | |
| Whig Party platform | 1833-1856, center-right, emerged in opposition to Andrew Jackson, former members of the National Republican, anti-Masonic and disaffected democrats |
| Manifest Destiny | Doctrine/belief that expansion of US territory through continents was justified and inevitable |
| Wilmot Proviso | An unsuccessful 1846 to band slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the mex-amer war; major event led to us civil war |
| John C Calhoun/Slavery in Mexican cession | F/ Democratic Party, 7th VP, SC political theorist; known for strongly defending slavery; |
| Popular Sovereignty | Allowing the people in the territory to vote whether or not they want slavery |
| Compromise of 1850 | Stephen Douglas broke down into five parts to present to congress |
| 1860 Presidential Election | Lincoln wins as republican |
| Fugitive Slave Act | slave owner seize runaway slaves; denied trials and opportunity to show evidence of freedom. Reinforced racism and slavery |
| Know Nothing Party | Anti-immigrant, believed in nativism; formerly American party |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | written by Stowe, a direct response to fugitive slave law |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Allowed each territory to decide issue of slavery on basis of popular sovereignty |
| Harper's Ferry | John Brown takes over a federal arsenal and hopes to arm the slaves and start a revolution. He’s caught and hanged for treason, becomes a martyr to the abolitionist movement |
| Preston Brooks | Politician from SC; democrat, strong advocate of slavery and states rights |
| Republican Party Platform | Generally based on conservatism; economics- republicans oppose increased min wage and estate tax; support free market and individual achievement |
| Crittenden Plan | MO compromise bring back, extend to Pacific; final attempt to bring peace |
| Conscription | 18-35 drafted for three years, large slaveholders exempt, rich could buy subs; financing war difficult, print money, S=prices up 9000%,N=117%, 2% Killed |
| Confederacy | League/alliance of southern confederate states |
| Civil War/Inflation | Economic value of slaves exceeded invested values of nation's railroads, factories and banks combined; Inflation =North 80%, South complete loss |
| Part 1 of 1850 Compromise | CA enters as a free state |
| Antietam- Sept 1862 | Lee invaded MD, wars bloodiest battle; Lincoln claims victory for the north moral issue of slavery into the conflict |
| Emancipation Proclamation | All slaves in rebelling states will be free Jan 1, 1863; no slaves freed |
| Results of the Civil War | collapse of slavery, legality of secession denied and nation indivisible |
| Lincoln's 10% Plan | reconstruction plan, wanted rebel states brought back, 10% ppl vote take oath loyal to fed gov't; navy/army confed need pardon |
| New Amendments post-Civil War | 13th- prohibits slavery, 14th- citizenship to all born in US, 15th- prohibited denial of suffrage to black men |
| Thaddeus Stevens | Led Radical Republicans (HOR); 40 acres and a mule law ..was not passed |
| Johnson/Impeachment | Andrew Johnson 17th president, impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors " detailed in 11 articles of impeachment |
| Carpetbaggers | a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. |
| Scalawags | white Southerner who collaborated w/ N Republicans during Reconstruction for personal profit; white Southern Democrats opposed Reconstruction legislation |
| Black Codes | laws constricted newly freed blacks |
| Sharecropping | renting land f/ owner to farm,share 1/2 crop growth w/ landowner |
| Enforcement Acts | 3- gives civil rights attempt to protect, black voters |
| Election of 1876 | R-Hayes D-Tildan; congress creates a commission of both parties, Compromise of 1877 |
| Compromise of 1877 | Hayes gets presidency, all federal troops pull out of south, republicans provide financial help to south |
| Border Ruffians | Pro slavery activists forced acceptance of slavery when crossed border into Kentucky to vote illegally |
| Jefferson Davis | First and only president of confederacy; moved Capitol to Richmond |
| Conscription Act | 18=35 drafted for 3 years; large slaveholders exempt, rich buy subs; print more $ caused inflation; S up 9000%, N up 117%- 2% killed |
| Robert E Lee | Confederate General |
| Ulysses S Grant | Union General; 1868 President |
| Lower South | Dependent on cash crops, cotton, sugar cane, dependent on slavery; South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas |
| Planters | 20+slaves owned, plantations, agriculture, cash crops |
| Small slaveholders | 20 or less slaves owned, made up 88% of all slaveowners |
| Yoeman | 0 slaves owned, family farmer, largest group of white southerners |
| Pine Barrows Folk | Lived in the woods, squatters, that built rustic cabins , sell-sufficient, 10% of white southerners |
| Nat Turner's Rebellion | 1831- in Southampton, VA,; One of the more successful slave rebellions, 60 whites killed; largest in US history |
| Fugitive resistance | A secretive form of resistance to make slavery more bare able like arson, poisoning food, refusal to work |
| Peculiar Institution | Described by historians slavery in the south, post revolution |
| Gettysburg | July 1-3 1863 Lee hoped to invade North, stopped at Gettysburg - Union victory |
| Fall of Atlanta | Sept 1864 |
| Confederates pushed out of Richmond, VA | April 1865 |
| Appomattox Court House | April 9, 1865- Lee surrenders to Grant |
| April 14th 1865 | Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe at Ford Theatre (DC) |
| Total War Tactics used by _______________ to smash his way through | General Sherman |
| Martial Law | Military government, involves suspension of ordinary law; in occupied territory by military authority; military forces replacing civilian law |
| Writ of Habeas Corpos | States that you must be charged w/ something w/in a period of time being arrested; Lincoln starts in order to arrest ppl of the Baltimore riots |
| Antietam | Battle Spet 1862, Lee invaded MD; wars bloodiest battle; North wins Lincoln's goals change |
| Lincoln originally wanted WAR TO ____ __ ________; After Antietam moral issues of _____________ into conflict. | Preserve the union, slavery (hoped to bring in help of France and England) |
| Ex Parte Merryman | Contests presidents power to suspend "writ of habeas corpus during a national emergency |
| NYC draft Riots | July 1863 riots against the draft, mainly because people didn't want to fight or blacks |
| ______________ was problematic because north afraid convert to south because DC would be ________________ ________________ | Maryland, confederate states |
| Neuces river | what Mexico declared as the southern border of Texas instead of the Rio Grande as the Americans think |
| Radical Republicans | Helped free slaves, wanted to punish south; stop KKK and protect blacks f/ them |
| 40 acres and a mule | Thaddeus wanted to take land out 40 acres and give to former slaves |
| Part 2 of 1850 compromise | Utah and NM split into two territories and pop Soviet decides slavery |
| Part 3 of 1850 compromise | Settle boundary dispute between TX and NM |
| Part 4 of 1850 Compromise | abolishing slave trade in DC because it disturbed Northerners and too close to White House |
| Part 5 of 1850 compromise | A new fugitive slave law- strict, allowed southern slaveholders to go into north and claim any blacks their slave w/o proof |
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