Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
period 5
vocabulary for unit 5 apush - 2023/2024
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dred Scott Decision | A Missouri slave suing for his freedom, stating his four year residence in Louisiana territory made him a free man. Supreme court decided he couldn't sue as he was property, not a citizen. |
| Free Soil Party | Organized by anti-slavery men in the North. Against slavery in new territories, foreshadowing Republican party. Also wanted governmental aid. |
| Radical Republicans | Strong abolitionists wanted punishments for confederates and voting rights for the newly freed. Passed a reconstruction act through congress that was vetoed by Lincoln. |
| Robert Smalls | Famous black leader of Civil War-Reconstruction era, hijacked Confederate ship and surrendered it to the Union, later elected into U.S. Congress. |
| Blanche Bruce | An American politician. He represented Mississippi as a U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881 and was the first black to serve a full term in the Senate. |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North. |
| Manifest Destiny | The (religious) belief that American's had the right to spread across the continent no matter what. Opposed by Clay, Webster and Lincoln, but supported by Polk. |
| Clipper Ship | Long, narrow, wooden ships with tall masts and enormous sails. Unequalled in speed and were used for trade, especially for transporting perishable products from distant countries like China and between the eastern and western United States. |
| Matthew Perry | Commodore who steamed into harbor Tokyo in 1854; said "We have met the enemy and they are ours: two ships, two brigs, one sloop and a schooner."; persuaded the Japanese in 1854 to sign a memorable treaty. |
| Missionary | A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. |
| Nativism | An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840s and 1850s in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics. |
| Know Nothing Party | Aka the American Party; major political force from 1854-1855; objective: to extend period of naturalization, undercut immigrant voting strengths, and keep aliens in their place |
| Gold Rush | Brought thousands to the newly claimed California territory. Quickly became a state along with the compromise of 1850. People came to California from all over the world struck up a relationship with the Chinese people. |
| Homestead Act | Act of 1862 that permitted any citizen or prospective citizen to claim 160 acres of public land and to purchase it for a small fee after living on it for five years. |
| Mariano Vallejo | Encouraged Bear Flag Report. A military and political leader in California, serving the Mexican government until 1846; elected senator to the first state legislature 1849. |
| Sand Creek Massacre | An attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a regiment of Colorado militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members. |
| Little Big Horn | A battle in Montana near the river between Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command. |
| Minstrel Shows | Racist entertainment performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface. They lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, happy-go-lucky, and musical. |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were pro-slavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. |
| Wilmont Proviso | Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War, but southern senators, led by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, defeated the measure in 1846 and 1847. It Failed |
| Ostend Manifesto | A group of southerners met with Spanish officials to attempt to get more slave territory. They tried to buy Cuba but the Spanish would not sell it. Southerners wanted to take it by force and the northerners were outraged by this thought. |
Created by:
seyemon
Popular U.S. History sets