AP US History Chapter 16 Flashcards
| 12021036955 | William Seward | Secretary of state from 1861 to 1869 under Lincoln and Johnson; believed that U.S. must increase its participation in world, including the Western Hemisphere, Hawaii, and the Philippines. | ![]() | 0 |
| 12021036956 | Emmeline Wells | Women's right advocate. Served as president of Mormon church. | 1 | |
| 12021036957 | John Wesley Powell | Explorer and geologist who warned that traditional agriculture could not succeed in the West. | 2 | |
| 12021036958 | Chief Joseph | Leader of the Nez Perce nation who tried to help them escape their homeland in Oregon for Canada in 1877. | 3 | |
| 12021036959 | Sitting Bull | The leader of the Sioux, who, with, killed General George A. Custer and his entire 210 man army. He was defending land in the Dakota Territory, which had been reserved for his people but was still being settled by whites. leader of Lakota Sioux on northern plains refused to go to a reservation Repeatedly crossed into cananda | 4 | |
| 12021036960 | George Armstrong Custer | Former General during the Civil War, he set out in 1874 with his Seventh Cavalry to return the Plains Indians to the Sioux reservation. Defeated by an army that outnumbered his men 10 to 1. A brash self promoter Graduated last in his class at West Point Led expedition into South Dakota's Black Hill - and proclaimed the discovery of gold | 5 | |
| 12021036961 | Geronimo | Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909). | 6 | |
| 12021036962 | Ohiyesa | An Indian student who grew up to be a doctor and advocate for his people. | 7 | |
| 12021036963 | Buffalo Bill Cody | Popular Wild West show traveling throughout US and Europe. Exploited fame and romanticized life of cowboy through reenactments of Indian battles and displays of horsemanship/riflery. Confirmed popular image of the west as romantic/glamourous (kept image alive) in his traveling Wild West performance, enacted a revenge killing of a Chynnne man named Yellow Hand - scalped him "first scalp for Custer" - thought it a win for white civilization | 8 | |
| 12021036964 | Frederick Jackson Turner | American historian in the early 20th century best known for his essay *"The Significance of the Frontier in American History"* in which he argued that the spirit and success of the United States was directly tied to the country's westward expansion. | 9 | |
| 12021036965 | transcontinental railroad | Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west, A railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast. It made it so that it was easier to for mail and goods to travel faster and cheaper. | ![]() | 10 |
| 12021036966 | protective tariff | A tax on imported goods that raises the price of imports so people will buy domestic goods. | ![]() | 11 |
| 12021036967 | Treaty of Kanagawa | a treaty signed between the U.S. and Japan allowing Japan to open two ports to the U.S. | 12 | |
| 12021036968 | Burlingame Treaty | An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S. missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. | 13 | |
| 12021036969 | Munn v. Illinois | Allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders, including railroads and grain elevators, serving the public good. | 14 | |
| 12021036970 | gold standard | The practice of backing a country's currency with gold. | 15 | |
| 12021036971 | Crime of 1783 | A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the US treasury to cease minting silver dollars, retire greenbacks and replace with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks. | 16 | |
| 12021036972 | Homestead Act | Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property. This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War. | ![]() | 17 |
| 12021036973 | Morrill Act | The 1862 act that gave 160 million acres of land that states could sell to raise money for public universities. | 18 | |
| 12021036974 | land-grant colleges | Public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise. | 19 | |
| 12021036975 | Comstock Lode | Was a major silver deposit in Nevada. All of the silver mining in this area created the town of Virginia City, which gained much culture and brought it to the area. This area eventually became a ghost town, like others in the area. After a mining boom was over, people would leave the area and move to another one, leaving everything behind. | ![]() | 20 |
| 12021036976 | Long Drive | Facilitated by the completion of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1865, a system by which cowboys herded cattle hundreds of miles north from Texas to Dodge City and the other cow towns of Kansas. | 21 | |
| 12021036977 | "rain follows the plow" | An unfounded theory that settlement of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall. | 22 | |
| 12021036978 | Exodusters | The African Americans migrating to the Great Plains state (ie: Kansas & Oklahoma) in 1879 to escape conditions in the South. who were a group of blacks headed toward the west , participated (6k of em) in the exodus of Kansas There was the largest concentrations of blacks (40k) other than TX | 23 | |
| 12021036979 | Yellowstone National Park | Established in 1872 by Congress, Yellowstone was the United States's first national park. | ![]() | 24 |
| 12021036980 | U.S. Fisheries Commission | A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish. Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management. | ![]() | 25 |
| 12021036981 | Sand Creek Massacre | The November 29, 1864, massacre of more than a hundred Cheyennes, largely women and children, by John M. Chivington's Colorado militia. | 26 | |
| 12021036982 | Fetterman Massacre | A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and 80 soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them. With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail, the main route into Montana. December 1866, 1500 Sioux lured Captain William Fetterman and his 80 soldiers from a Wyoming fort and wiped them out - allowed the Sioux to close the Bozeman Trail - a private road under army protection that serves as the main route into Montana | 27 | |
| 12021036983 | Lone Wolfe v. Hitchcock | A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose, ignoring all existing treaties. | 28 | |
| 12021036984 | Dawes Severalty Act | The 1887 law that gave Native Americans individual ownership of land by dividing reservations into homesteads. The law was a disaster ;and reservation lands ended up being sold to non-Indian. | 29 | |
| 12021036985 | Battle of Little Big Horn | The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation. Custer's force was annihilated, but with whites calling for U.S. soldiers to retaliate, the Native American military victory was short-lived. | ![]() | 30 |
| 12021036986 | Ghost Dance movement | Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion. It fostered PLains Indians' hope that they could, through sacred dances, resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic | 31 | |
| 12021036987 | Wounded Knee | The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance, soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300. | 32 |
AP Biology Cell Membrane Flashcards
Cell membrane structure and functions
| 13666565594 | Selective Permeability | Allows some substances to cross more easily than others | 0 | |
| 13666565595 | Amphipathic | molecule that has both a hydrophillic region and a hydrophobic region such as a phosopholipid | ![]() | 1 |
| 13666565596 | phospholipid bilayer | a double layer of phospholipids that makes up plasma membranes | ![]() | 2 |
| 13666565597 | Integral Proteins | Proteins that extend through the phospholipid bilayer. | ![]() | 3 |
| 13666565598 | Peripheral Proteins | A protein loosely attached to the surface of a membrane | ![]() | 4 |
| 13666565599 | Glycoproteins | proteins that have carbohydrates covalently bonded to them | 5 | |
| 13666565600 | cholesterol | steroid present in the plasma membranes of animal cells. A large amount of this in a phospholipid bilayer at High Temperatures reduces membrane fluidity, but at Lower Temperature prevents the membrane from solidifying. | ![]() | 6 |
| 13666565601 | Concentration Gradient | a difference in the concentration of a substance across a space | 7 | |
| 13666565602 | Diffusion | the movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration, so that they spread out evenly reaching equilibrium | ![]() | 8 |
| 13666565603 | Osmosis | The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane | 9 | |
| 13666565604 | Transport Proteins | proteins that help to transport substances across cell membranes | ![]() | 10 |
| 13666565605 | Aquaporins | Channel proteins that help massive amount of water pass through the membrane; a lot in our kidneys | 11 | |
| 13666565606 | Passive Transport | movement of materials through a cell membrane without using energy | 12 | |
| 13666565607 | Isotonic | a solution whose solute concentration equals that inside a cell; the cell will not change | ![]() | 13 |
| 13666565608 | Hypertonic | the solution with the greater concentration of solutes than that inside the cell; the cell will lose water to its environment--> Cell will shrivel up | ![]() | 14 |
| 13666565609 | Hypotonic | the solution with the lower concentration of solutes than that inside the cell; water will enter the cell -> Cell will swell and burst | ![]() | 15 |
| 13666565611 | Turgid | Very firm (healthy state), especially for plant cells | 16 | |
| 13666565612 | Plasmolysis | As a plant cell shrivels its plasma membrane pulls away from the wall | ![]() | 17 |
| 13666565613 | Facilitated Diffusion | passive transport of ions or polar molecules across a plasma membrane by transport proteins | ![]() | 18 |
| 13666565614 | Active Transport | transport of a substance through a cell membrane against the concentration gradient; requires energy | ![]() | 19 |
| 13666565615 | Sodium-Potassium Pump | a carrier protein that uses ATP to actively transport sodium ions out of a cell and potassium ions into the cell | ![]() | 20 |
| 13666565616 | Exocytosis | process by which a cell releases large amounts of material by vesicles | ![]() | 21 |
| 13666565617 | Endocytosis | the movement of a substance into a cell by a vesicle | 22 | |
| 13666565618 | Phagocytosis | a type of endocytosis in which microbes are taken in by immune cells of animals (mainly by macrophages) | ![]() | 23 |
| 13666565619 | Pinocytosis | cellular drinking | ![]() | 24 |
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AP Bio Cells Flashcards
| 16045042603 | Osmosis | Diffusion of water across a membrane through the lipid bilayer | ![]() | 0 |
| 16045042604 | Hypertonic | Having greater concentration of solute inside than the solution outside. Cell shrinks. | ![]() | 1 |
| 16045042605 | Hypotonic | Having a lower concentration of solute inside than the solution outside. Cell Expands. | ![]() | 2 |
| 16045042606 | Isotonic | Having an equal solute concentration inside and outside the cell. Ideal (perfect) conditions. Cell remains normal. | ![]() | 3 |
| 16045042662 | Vacuole | Storage vesicle for water, food, wastes other substances. 1 large vacuole in plants, many small vacuoles in animals. | ![]() | 4 |
| 16045042663 | Nucleus | Controls all cell activities and protein production. Contains the DNA and nucleolus. | ![]() | 5 |
| 16045042664 | Cytoplasm/Cytosol | Cell liquid in which chemical reactions occur. Holds and cushions the organelles. | ![]() | 6 |
| 16045042665 | Mitochondria | Converts glucose into ATP (energy a cell can use) in the process of cellular respiration. | ![]() | 7 |
| 16045042666 | Cell/Plasma/Lipid Membrane | A double-layered lipid membrane that surrounds the cell. Regulates what enters and leaves the cell. | ![]() | 8 |
| 16045042667 | Cell Wall | Rigid external layer of a plant cell (cellulose), bacteria (glycoproteins), or fungi (chitin) that is outside the cell membrane. | ![]() | 9 |
| 16045042668 | Chloroplast | Converts light energy into glucose in the process of photosynthesis. Contains chlorophyll giving plants their green color. | ![]() | 10 |
| 16045042607 | Endoplasmic Reticulum | Passageways where compounds are manufactured, processed, and transported. | ![]() | 11 |
| 16045042608 | Golgi Apparatus/Body/Complex | Collects, modifies, and packages proteins and lipids made by the E.R. | ![]() | 12 |
| 16045042609 | Prokaryote | Unicellular. Lacks a nucleus and membrane bound organelles. Has ribosomes. | ![]() | 13 |
| 16045042610 | Eukaryote | Unicellular or multicellular. Contains a nucleus and membrane bound organelles. Has ribosomes. | ![]() | 14 |
| 16045042611 | Diffusion | The movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. | ![]() | 15 |
| 16045042612 | Equilibrium / Homeostasis | A state of balance in which there is little or no total change. | ![]() | 16 |
| 16045042613 | Lysosome | Contains digestive enzymes to breakdown food and wastes. Involved in apoptosis. | ![]() | 17 |
| 16045042614 | Nucleolus | Synthesizes ribosomes. Found in the nucleus. | ![]() | 18 |
| 16045042615 | Vesicle | Small package of nutrients, proteins, wastes, or water created by the golgi. | ![]() | 19 |
| 16045042669 | Cell | The basic unit of all living things. The smallest unit of life. | ![]() | 20 |
| 16045042670 | Organism | A complete living thing | ![]() | 21 |
| 16045042671 | Ribosome | Synthesizes proteins. Mostly found on the rough E.R. but can also be in the cytoplasm. | ![]() | 22 |
| 16045042672 | Tissue | A collection of similar cells that perform a specific job. | ![]() | 23 |
| 16045042673 | Unicellular | Made of a single cell | ![]() | 24 |
| 16045042674 | Multi-cellular | Made of more than one cell. | ![]() | 25 |
| 16045042616 | Nuclear membrane/envelope | Surrounds the nucleolus and DNA. Controls what enters and leaves the nucleus. | ![]() | 26 |
| 16045042617 | Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum | Synthesizes lipids for use in the cell membrane and other parts of the cell. | ![]() | 27 |
| 16045042618 | Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum | Contains most of the cells ribosomes which synthesize proteins. | ![]() | 28 |
| 16045042619 | Organelle | "Little organs" that make up the cell working together for the survival and function of the cell. | ![]() | 29 |
| 16045042620 | Unicellular | Made of 1 cell. | ![]() | 30 |
| 16045042621 | Cilia | Small hairs on a cells surface that wave back and forth allowing the cell to move. | ![]() | 31 |
| 16045042622 | Flagella | A whip-like structure on a cell that 'whips' back and forth allowing the cell to move (e.g. sperm cell). | ![]() | 32 |
| 16045042623 | Active Transport | Movement of particles from low to high concentration across the membrane that requires energy (ATP). | ![]() | 33 |
| 16045042624 | Passive Transport | Movement of particles from high to low concentration across the membrane (no energy needed). | ![]() | 34 |
| 16045042625 | Facilitated Diffusion | Passive transport through the membrane with the use of protein channels. Some channels are specific while others are not. | ![]() | 35 |
| 16045042626 | Centriole | Helps align chromosomes during cell division (animal cells only). | ![]() | 36 |
| 16045042627 | Microtubules/Microfilaments | Small, thin proteins that help support and give structure to a cell. A cells cytoskeleton. | ![]() | 37 |
| 16045042628 | Cyto- | Prefix meaning cell. | ![]() | 38 |
| 16045042629 | Phospholipid Membrane | Cell membrane composed of phospholipids, proteins (transport), cholesterol, and aquaporins.. | ![]() | 39 |
| 16045042630 | Pore | A small opening (hole) to allow materials to pass in and out of an area. | ![]() | 40 |
| 16045042631 | Passive | No energy needed to allow material passage. | ![]() | 41 |
| 16045042632 | Aquaporin | Protein channels in the cell membrane that allow for quick water passage. | ![]() | 42 |
| 16045042633 | Hydrophilic | Attracted to water. | ![]() | 43 |
| 16045042634 | Hydrophobic | Repelled by water. | ![]() | 44 |
| 16045042635 | Plant Cell | 1 large vacuole. Chloroplasts Cell wall (cellulose) | ![]() | 45 |
| 16045042636 | Animal Cell | Many small vacuoles Cell membrane only Centrioles Lysosomes | ![]() | 46 |
| 16045042637 | Phospholipid | Makes up the cell membrane. Composed of a phosphate 'head' (hydrophilic) and 2 fatty acid 'tails' (hydrophobic). | ![]() | 47 |
| 16045042638 | Semi-permeable | Allows some materials (not all) to pass through. | ![]() | 48 |
| 16045042639 | Selective permeability | The ability to decide which particles enter and leave a cell. | ![]() | 49 |
| 16045042640 | Cholesterol | Stiff sterol lipid in the cell membrane that provides strength and rigidity. | ![]() | 50 |
| 16045042641 | Concentration | The amount of dissolved solute in a solvent. Usually expressed as a percent. | ![]() | 51 |
| 16045042642 | Solution | Solute + solvent | ![]() | 52 |
| 16045042643 | Solute | Particles dissolved in a liquid (solvent) | ![]() | 53 |
| 16045042644 | Solvent | A liquid particles (solute) are dissolved in | ![]() | 54 |
| 16045042645 | Permeability | How well a substance can pass through something. | ![]() | 55 |
| 16045042646 | [cyto]Lysis | Cell bursting (exploding) | ![]() | 56 |
| 16045042647 | Plasmolysis | Cell shrinking | ![]() | 57 |
| 16045042648 | Endocytosis | Taking things in from the surrounding environment by creating a vesicle. | ![]() | 58 |
| 16045042649 | Exocytosis | Getting rid of wastes into the surrounding environment by expelling a vesicle. | ![]() | 59 |
| 16045042650 | Pinocytosis | Taking in water from the environment via endocytosis. Cell drinking. | ![]() | 60 |
| 16045042651 | Phagocytosis | Taking in food from the environment via endocytosis. Cell eating. | ![]() | 61 |
| 16045042652 | Osmotic solution | The solution outside a cell. | ![]() | 62 |
| 16045042653 | Hyper- | Above, over, a lot | ![]() | 63 |
| 16045042654 | Hypo- | Under, low, a few, a little | ![]() | 64 |
| 16045042655 | Iso- | Even, equal | ![]() | 65 |
| 16045042656 | What can pass through the cell membrane? | Non-polar & uncharged molecules because of the hydrophobic tails. | 66 | |
| 16045042657 | What cannot pass through the cell membrane? | Polar & charged molecules/ions. Water, sugars, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids and ions | 67 | |
| 16045042658 | sodium-potassium pump | A transport protein in the plasma membrane of animal cells that actively transports sodium out of the cell and potassium into the cell. | 68 | |
| 16045042659 | How do polar and charged molecules cross the membrane? | Through transport proteins! | ![]() | 69 |
| 16045042660 | endosymbiotic theory | theory that eukaryotic cells formed from a symbiosis among several different prokaryotic organisms | 70 | |
| 16045042661 | endosymbiotic theory evidence | -Mitochondria and chloroplast have 2 membranes -Mitochondria have their own circular DNA, similar to bacteria -Mitochondria are close to the same size as bacteria | ![]() | 71 |
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AMSCO AP US History Chapter 13 Flashcards
AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 13 The Union in Peril, 1848-1861
| 13441730232 | free-soil movement | This movement did not oppose slavery in the South, but they did not want the Western states to allow slavery. (p. 247) | ![]() | 0 |
| 13441730260 | Free-Soil party | In 1848, Northerns organized this party to advocate that the new Western states not allow slavery and provide free homesteads. Their slogan was, "free soil, free labor, free men". (p. 248) | ![]() | 1 |
| 13441730233 | bleeding Kansas | After 1854, the conflicts between antislavery and proslavery forces exploded in the Kansas Territory. (p. 252) | ![]() | 2 |
| 13441730234 | Pottawatomie Creek | In 1856 Kansas, abolitionist John Brown and his sons attacked this proslavery farm settlement and killed five settlers. (p. 253) | ![]() | 3 |
| 13441730235 | Lecompton constitution | In 1857, President James Buchanan asked that Congress accept this document and admit Kansas as a slave state. Congress did not accept it. (p. 255) | ![]() | 4 |
| 13441730236 | popular sovereignty | Around 1850, this term referred to the idea that each new territory could determine by vote whether or not to allow slavery would be allowed in that region. (p. 248) | ![]() | 5 |
| 13441730237 | Lewis Cass | This Democratic senator from Michigan, proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to the slavery question in the territories. (p. 248) | ![]() | 6 |
| 13441730261 | Henry Clay | He proposed the Compromise of 1850. (p. 249) | ![]() | 7 |
| 13441730238 | Zachary Taylor | The twelfth president of the United States from 1849 to 1850. He was a general and hero in the Mexican War. He was elected to the presidency in 1848, representing the Whig party. He died suddenly in 1850 and Millard Fillmore became the president. (p 248, 249) | ![]() | 8 |
| 13441730239 | Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay proposed and it was signed into law by President Millard Fillmore. It proposed: * Admit California to the Union as a free state * Divide the remainder of the Mexican Cession into New Mexico and Utah (popular sovereignty) * Ban slave trade in D. C., but permit slaveholding * New Fugitive Slave Law to be enforced (p. 249) | ![]() | 9 |
| 13441730240 | Stephen A. Douglas | In 1854, he devised the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which in effect overturned the Missouri Compromise, and allowed the South the opportunity to expand slavery. In 1858, he debated Abraham Lincoln in a famous series of seven debates in the campaign for the Illinois senate seat. He won the campaign for reelection to the Senate, but he alienated Southern Democrats. In 1860, he won the Democratic presidential nomination, but Southern Democrats nominated their own candidate, John Breckinridge. He was easily defeated by Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election that year. (p. 252, 256, 258) | ![]() | 10 |
| 13441730241 | Millard Fillmore | The thirteenth president of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office. He was the second Vice President to become president upon the death of a sitting President, when he succeeded Zachary Taylor. As vice president he helped pass the Compromise of 1850. (p. 249, 255) | ![]() | 11 |
| 13441730242 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | This 1854 act, sponsored by Senator Stephen A Douglas, would build a transcontinental railroad through the central United States. In order gain approval in the South, it would divide the Nebraska territory into Nebraska and Kansas and allow voting to decide whether to allow slavery. This increased regional tensions because it effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had already determined that this area would not allow slavery. (p. 252) | ![]() | 12 |
| 13441730243 | Crittenden compromise | In the winter of 1860-1861, Senator John Crittenden proposed a constitutional amendment to appease the South. He proposed that slavery would be allowed in all areas south of the 36 30 line. The Republicans rejected the proposal because it would allow extension of slavery into the new territories. (p. 260) | ![]() | 13 |
| 13441730244 | Franklin Pierce | The fourteenth President of the United States from 1853 to 1857. A Democrat from New Hampshire, he was acceptable to Southern Democrats because he supported the Fugitive Slave Law. (p. 252) | ![]() | 14 |
| 13441730245 | Know-Nothing party | This political party started in the mid-1850s. Also known as the American party, they were mostly native-born Protestant Americans. Their core issue was opposition to Catholics and immigrants who were entering Northern cities in large numbers. (p. 254) | ![]() | 15 |
| 13441730246 | Republican party | This political party formed in 1854, in response to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It was composed of a coalition of Free-Soilers, antislavery Whigs, and Democrats. Although not abolitionist, it sought to block the spread of slavery in the territories. (p. 254) | ![]() | 16 |
| 13441730247 | John C. Fremont | In the presidential election of 1856, this California senator was the Republican nominee. The Republican platform called for no expansion of slavery, free homesteads, and a probusiness protective tariff. He lost the election to James Buchanan, but won 11 of the 16 free states, which foreshadowed the emergence of a powerful Republican party. (p. 255) | ![]() | 17 |
| 13441730248 | James Buchanan | The fifteenth President of the United States from 1857 to 1861. He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South, and he was unable to forestall the secession of South Carolina to December 20, 1860. During his term: "Bleeding Kansas" (1856), Caning of Senator Sumner (1856), Lecompton Constitution (1857), Dred Scott case (1857) (p. 255) | ![]() | 18 |
| 13441730249 | election of 1860 | In this presidential election, the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln won. Lincoln won all the northern states, while John C. Breckinridge, a South Democrat, won all the southern states. The South felt like it no longer had a voice in national politics and a number of states soon seceded from the Union. (p. 258) | ![]() | 19 |
| 13441730262 | secession | The election of Abraham Lincoln was the final event that caused the southern states to leave the Union. In December 1860, South Carolina voted unanimously to secede. Within the next six weeks Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas had all seceded. In February 1861, representatives of seven states met in Montgomery, Alabama to create the Confederate States of America. (p. 259) | 20 | |
| 13441730250 | Fugitive Slave Law | Congress passed a second version of this law in 1850. The law's chief purpose was to track down runaway slaves who had escaped to a Northern state, capture them, and return them to their Southern owners. Enforcement of the law in the North was sometimes opposed even though there were penalties for hiding a runaway slave or obstructing enforcement of the law. (p. 250) | ![]() | 21 |
| 13441730251 | Underground Railroad | A network of people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to the North by providing transportation and hiding places. (p. 250) | ![]() | 22 |
| 13441730252 | Harriet Tubman | Born a slave, she escaped to the North and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom. (p. 250) | ![]() | 23 |
| 13441730253 | Dred Scott v. Sandford | An 1857 Supreme Court case, in which Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that African Americans (free or slave), were not citizens of the United States, that Congress could not exclude slavery from any federal territory, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. The ruling delighted Southern Democrats and infuriated Northern Republicans. (p. 255) | ![]() | 24 |
| 13441730263 | Roger Taney | He was a Southern Democrat and chief justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. (p. 255) | ![]() | 25 |
| 13441730264 | Abraham Lincoln | He was elected president of the United States in 1860. He was a Republican, who ran on a platform that appealed to those in the North and the West. It called for the exclusion of slavery in the new territories, a protective tariff for industry, free land for homesteaders, and a railroad to the Pacific. (p. 258) | ![]() | 26 |
| 13441730254 | Lincoln-Douglas debates | In 1858, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had seven debates in the campaign for the Illinois senate seat. Lincoln was not an abolitionist, but he attacked Douglas's seeming indifference to slavery as a moral issue. Although Lincoln lost the election to Douglas, he emerged as a national figure and leading contender for the Republican nomination for president. (p. 256) | ![]() | 27 |
| 13441730255 | house-divided speech | The speech given by Abraham Lincoln when accepting the Republican nomination for the Illinois senate seat. He said, "This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free". (p. 256) | ![]() | 28 |
| 13441730256 | Freeport Doctrine | Doctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizens did not pass laws (slave codes) maintaining it. This angered Southern Democrats. (p. 257) | ![]() | 29 |
| 13441730257 | Sumner-Brooks incident | This incident took place in 1856, when Congressman Preston Brooks severely beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. The attack occurred in the Senate chamber, after Sumner gave a vitriolic speech, "The Crime Against Kansas". (p. 254) | ![]() | 30 |
| 13441730265 | John Brown | He led his four sons and some former slaves, in an attack on the federal arsenal, called the Harpers Ferry raid. (p. 257) | ![]() | 31 |
| 13441730258 | Harpers Ferry raid | In October 1859, John Brown led his four sons and some former slaves, in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. His impractical plan was to obtain guns to arm Virginia's slaves, whom he hoped would rise up in a general revolt. He and six of his followers were captured and hanged. Southern whites saw the raid as proof of the north's true intentions - to use slave revolts to destroy the South. (p. 257) | ![]() | 32 |
| 13441730259 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin | In 1852, she wrote this influential book about the conflict between a slave named Tom, and a brutal white slave owner, Simon Legree. It caused a generation of Northerners and many Europeans to regard all slave owners as cruel and inhuman. Southerners believed it to be proof of Northern prejudice against the Southern way of life. (p. 250) | ![]() | 33 |
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