APUSH Unit 5 Review Word Scramble
|
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
| Question | Answer |
| Results of John Tyler's veto of a new Bank of the U.S. | - He thought that it was unconstitutional and a threat to the states individual rights - was formally expelled from the whig party and they tried to impeach him |
| Cause of the Aroostook War | English wanted a shorter path across Maine - Compromised and gave them that portion and we got the top of Minnesota |
| Reasons why British wanted an alliance with Texas | - Cheaper Cotton - Weaken Union - Some wanted to make sure that no slavery would happen there |
| Arguments against annexing Texas | - It will spread slavery further west - Drive states closer to civil war - Mexico did not want the US to become its neighbor which would lead to war |
| Primary group responsible for strengthening American ties to Oregon | American Missionaries |
| Why Americans wanted Oregon | - Manifest Destiny - Keep British out - Rich farm land |
| Boundaries of disputed area in Oregon | 54 40 |
| Manifest Destiny | - Americans were divinely ordained that we need to settle the entire continent of North America - White Mans Burden |
| How did Polk want to gain control of California? | Offered to buy it |
| All the reasons we went to war with Mexico | - American blood on American soil - Unpaid Debt |
| Location of "American blood on American soil" | North of Rio Grande |
| Stephen Kearny Battle | Santa Fe |
| Zachary Taylor Battle | Buena Vista |
| Winfield Scott Battle | Mexico City |
| John C. Fremont Battle | California |
| Terms of the treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo | - America got Texas & area yielding to Oregon - U.S. pays $15 million - End of Mexican American war |
| Delcaration of Wilmont Proviso | - No slavery in Mexican cession |
| Results of the slavery debate in Mexican-ceded lands | - Threatened to disrupt the ranks of both Whigs & Democrats - Split national politics along North and South sectional lines |
| Platform of Free Soil Party | - Supported Wilmont Proviso - Against slavery in New Lands - Homesteads |
| Popular Sovereignty | People in territories can vote on slavery in their territory - Government based on consent of people |
| Who participated in the Gold Rush? | - Desperate people - Outlaws |
| Why free soilers condemned slavery | - Not because they were slaving blacks, but because they were ruining the chances for po white trash to have jobs |
| Economy in the South in 1850 | Plantation economy |
| Harriet Tubman | - Underground Railroad - "Moses" |
| How most slaves gained freedom in 1850 | - Self-purchase - Voluntary emancipation |
| John C. Calhoun's plan to protect slavery in the South | - 2 presidents (one from the North and South) |
| Provisions of 1850 compromise | - CA would be admitted as a free state - Utah and NM would decieve the slavery issue for themselves (popular sovereignty) - Ban the buying of slaves in Washington D.C. - Stronger fugitive slave law - $10 million to Texas |
| Cause for Personal Liberty Laws | - Response to Fugitive Slave Law - They will not return |
| Provisions of Fugitive Slave Law | - Made it legal to arrest runaway slaves - Slaves could be returned to their owners - A person who helped runaway slaves faced crimes & jail time - Texas gets $10 million (gave up some land for NM) |
| Matthew Perry | Commodore that opened up Japan for trade |
| Main territory eyed under manifest destiny | Cuba |
| Ostend Manifesto | - US offers $20 million for Cuba - If Spain didn't accept, we would go to war - They wanted to split Cuba into slave states |
| Main reason for transcontinental railroad was needed | - Keep union together - Link CA to the North |
| Why create a southern route for transcontinental railroad | - Where ever there was a railroad there was economic benefits (South needed benefits) - Easier to build in the South |
| Stephen Douglas's plan for slavery in Kansas- Nebraska | - Let popular sovereignty decide on slavery - Scared North because that meant that there could be slavery |
| Purpose for Uncle Toms Cabin | - Let people know of the evil of the South and the slavery |
| Results of Uncle Toms Cabin for Northerners | - No help in returning slaves no matter what the law said |
| Reactions to Uncle Toms Cabin overseas | - Sold Millions - Britain and France became antislavery |
| Main Argument in the Impending Crisis of the South | Po white trash were the ones who suffered the most from slavery |
| Proslavery events in bleeding Kansas | Lecomption resolution, boarder ruffians |
| Antislavery groups in bleeding Kansas | J-Hawks, John Brown |
| Breaking point in Kansas | Group of proslaverites shot up and burned a part of the free-soil town of lawrence. |
| Provisions of the Lecomption Constitutionn | - Protect owners of slaves in Kansas - Slavery, but no new slaves - Either way you voted there would be slavery - Antislavery refused to vote |
| Response by South after 1857 panic | - All good - Cocky - King Cotton |
| Response by North after 1857 panic | - Suffered - Higher tariff - Homesteads |
| Stephen Douglas's Freeport Doctrine | No matter how the supreme court ruled, slavery would stay down if the people voted it down |
| South Carolina's response to Lincolns election | Seceded |
| The first Confederate Capital | Montgomery |
| Reasons Buchanan refused to use force against seceding states | - No Northern support - US busy Indian fighting - Slim chance of reconciliation |
| Why Lincoln opposed Crittenden Compromise | It opposed his platform, because he was not going to extend slavery |
| Reasons secessionists supported leaving the union | - Republican party threatened slavery - They wanted slavery |
| Rulings of Supreme Court in Dred Scott Case | Your slaves can move with you to free states because they are your property. They will continue to be slaves |
Created by:
s91367