| Term | Definition |
| Market Revolution | 1800-1840
-economic transformation sparked by innovations (com&trans)
-local economies--> national economies
- canals, railroads, telegraphs, steamboats |
| Cotton Gin | 1793
-Eli whitney, Georgia
-simple device with rollers and brushes
-quickly separated cotton from seed
-revolutionized American slavery |
| Indian Removal Act | 1830
-Andrew Jackson
-provided funds to uproot the 5 civilized tribes
-led to court cases then trail of tears |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820
-Missouri drafts a constitution
-maine admitted as free state
-slavery prohibited in all remaining territory within Lousiana purch.north of 36 30 |
| Monroe Doctrine | 1823
-drafted by adams
-The us will oppose further colonization in Americas
-US stay out of European wars
-warned Europe not to interfere in Latin America |
| second Seminole war | 1835-1842
- largest most costly indian war
- 1,500 americans die
-Indians and blacks forced to move westward |
| Frederick Jackson Turner | 1861-1932
-American historian known for his thoughts on westward expansion |
| Plantation Legend | 1860's-
-benevolent masters, father figure, take care of slaves
- in the north, laborers are "disposable" |
| Solomon Northup | 1808--1863
-Free African American man who was kidnaped into slavery
-writes 12 years a slave |
| Margaret Garner | 1856
-slave who escapes with her kids
- kills her kids after being caught so they wouldn't have to return to slavery |
| Nat Turner | 1800-1831
-slave preacher in Virginia
-led the last large scale revolt
-women and children victims
-"was Christ not cruicified?" |
| Fancy Girls | began in 1830's
-young slaver women who were high priced because of physical atractiveness |
| Pushing System | 1800-1860
- increase in cotton production despite no tech. advances
-quota system--> beat, raped, mutilated, lashed, water borded |
| Bleeding Kansas | 1856
-pro slavery Missourians crossed the border and cast fraudulent ballots
- sporadic civil war broke out |
| Emancipation Proclamation | January 1st 1863
-Lincoln
- Freed slaves in states currently in Rebellion |
| 13th Amendment | January 31st 1865
-abolished slavery in the union |
| Free soil Party | 1848
-platform barred slavery from the western territories and for the federal gov't to provide free homesteads to settlers |
| Gabriel's Rebellion | 1800
-Virginia
- plan to march into the city and kill whites and keep some hostage until their demands were met.
-plot discovered. 26 hanged, |
| Saartjie Baartman | 1790-1815
-worked as a slave in cape town.
-she was brought to London and put on exhibit as a scientific curiousity |
| William Lloyd Garrison | 1805-1879
-prominent abolitionist and journalist |
| The Liberator | 1830
- Abolitionist paper |
| Angelina Grimke | 1805-1879
-abolitionist who supported womens suffrage
-daughter of prominent slaveholder in south carolina |
| Manifest Destiny | 1845
-John O'sullivan
-divine mission to occupy North America
-mission to extend freedom
-led to westward expansion |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | 1794-1876
- leader during the Mexican-American War |
| Treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo | 1848
-treaty ended the Mexican-American War
-mexico ceded 500 million square miles to the us |
| Compromise of 1850 | 1850
1. California would enter the union as a free state
2. the slave trade would be abolished in DC
3. a stringent new law would allow southerners to reclaim runaways
4. popular sovereignty in Mexican cession lands |
| Fugitive Slave Act | 1850
- the law allowed federal commissioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without the benefit of a jury trial |
| Dred Scott | 1857
1. could a black person be a citizen and sue?
2. did residence in a frees state make scott free?
3. did congress possess the power to prohibit salvery in a territory? |
| Mary and Emily Edmonson | 1832-1853
- celebrated in the US abolition movement
-play fancy girls in abolition theatres |
| Battle of Antietam | 1862
-fought in Maryland
- inconclusive result
- bloodiest battle in American history
-22,000 cassualties |
| Black Codes | 1860's
-granted certain rights, such as legalized marriage, ownership of property, and limited access to the courts.
-denied the right to testify against whites, to serve on juries, or vote. |
