APUSH: Slavery and Sectionalism (1845-1860)
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| Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia, attacked many whites, prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation | ||
| family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season, self-sufficient, participated in local markets alongside slave owners | ||
| network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom | ||
| worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom | ||
| northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age) | ||
| anti-immigrant, especially against Irish Catholics | ||
| Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio), Texans lost great number of people, "Remember the Alamo" | ||
| American who settled in Texas, one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico | ||
| "dark horse" Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession, Texas Annexation, Oregon Country), lowered tariffs, created Independent Treasury | ||
| Oregon Territory owned jointly with Britain, Polk severed its tie to Britain, forced to settle for compromise south of 49° rather than 54°40' | ||
| stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible, advocated by Polk | ||
| acquired Mexican Cession (future California, Arizona, and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas | ||
| slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress | ||
| gold discovery in Sutter's Mill in 1848 resulted in huge mass of adventurers in 1849, led to application for statehood, opened question of slavery in the West |