American Pageant 13th Edition Chapters 17-21 Flashcards
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| 318151022 | Date of Mexican Cession | 1848 | |
| 318151023 | Date Oregon Country is acquired | 1846 | |
| 318151024 | Date of Gasden Purchase | 1853 | |
| 318151025 | In the beginning of the war, what was Lincoln's goal? | to preserve the Union | |
| 318151026 | Why did Britain refuse to provide aid to the South? | 1. Uncle Tom's Cabin; 2. Surpluses of Cotton; 3. Needed King Wheat and King Corn | |
| 318151027 | What was a result of lack of military volunteers? | Both Union and Confederate governments pass conscription (draft) laws. | |
| 318151028 | The draft law favored the wealthy class. The law angered the working class and caused... | Riots in New York | |
| 318151029 | How did the North pay for the war? | 1. excise tax; 2. income tax; 3. tariff; 4. paper money called greenback; 5. sell government bonds | |
| 318151030 | Printing paper money without gold to back it caused... | Runaway inflation in the South | |
| 318151031 | 4 Ways that the North prospered during the war. | 1. Economic Boom; 2. 2nd Industrial Revolution; 3. Millionaire class of people; 4. North dominance over the South | |
| 318151032 | Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? | To gain more Northern support for war; to damage Southern war effort; to turn the war into a war against slavery | |
| 318151033 | Who were the copperheads? | Northern Democrats against the war and sympathized with the south | |
| 318151034 | Location and Date of First Bull Run | Virginia; July 21, 1861 | |
| 318151035 | Location and Date of Antietam | Maryland; September 17. 1862 | |
| 318409214 | Location and Date of Gettysburg | Pennsylvania; July 1-3, 1863 | |
| 318409215 | Location and Date of Vicksburg | Mississippi; July 4, 1863 | |
| 318409216 | Location and Date of Sherman's March to the Sea | Georgia through S. Carolina; Fall of 1864 | |
| 318409217 | Location and Date of Appomattox | Virginia; April 9, 1865 | |
| 318409218 | What was Lincoln's view of slavery and the Union? | To do whatever it took to hold the Union together | |
| 318409219 | How did the War affect the North's and South's economy? | Boosted the North's; Destroyed the South's | |
| 318409220 | Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863? | Nobody | |
| 318409221 | What freed the slaves? | The 13th Amendment | |
| 318409222 | What was Manifest Destiny? | The belief that God had "manifestly" destined that the American People to spread their uplifting democratic institutions over the continent | |
| 318409223 | When did Manifest Destiny hit the US? | The 1840s and 1850s | |
| 318409224 | Who ran in the election of 1844? | Polk (Democrat) and Clay (Whig) | |
| 318409225 | Who won the election of 1844? | Polk; took this as a sign to annex Texas | |
| 318409226 | Who did the US get Texas from? | Texas | |
| 318409227 | Mexico became independent from who in 1821? | Spain | |
| 318409228 | Why did Mexico want Americans to settle in Texas? | They wanted a larger population and to convert them to Roman Catholicism | |
| 318409229 | Wh did Americans want to settle in Texas? | Vast, cheap, fertile land | |
| 318409230 | Texas officially became known as...? | Republic of Texas | |
| 318409231 | What brought American settlers into conflict with the Mexican government? | Slavery laws; Religion; No Bill of Rights for Americans; Immigrants outlawed | |
| 318409232 | Texas declared independence from Mexico in... | 1836 | |
| 318409233 | Three major battles caused by Texas declaring independence | Alamo; Goliad; San Jacinto (Santa Anna captured in this battle) | |
| 318409234 | Why did the US say no in 1837 to Texas's petition for annexation? | The Americans were afraid that Texas would nourish the slave power and upset the balance | |
| 318629320 | When and how was Texas annexed by the US? | Joint Resolution by Tyler; required only simple majority in both houses | |
| 318629321 | Who had joint ownership of Oregon with the US? | Britain | |
| 318629322 | Who's slogan was "Fifty-four forty or fight"? | Polk | |
| 318629323 | What was Fifty-four forty or fight? | The US wanted Oregon to the 54 degrees 40 minute line; ended up only getting it to 49 degrees | |
| 318629324 | What were the dates of the war with Mexico? | 1846-1848 | |
| 318629325 | What did the US and Mexico disagree about? | The southern Texas boundary | |
| 318629326 | What did the US claim to be the southern boundary of Texas? | Rio Grande | |
| 318629327 | What did Mexico claim to the the southern boundary of Texas? | Nueces River | |
| 318629328 | What settled the Maine boundary dispute? | Arstook War (Webster-Ashburton Treaty) | |
| 318629329 | Who is said to be the "man with no party"? | Tyler | |
| 318629330 | Slidell was unsuccessful in purchasing what land from Mexico? | California and New Mexico | |
| 318629331 | Who wanted to know the precise "spot" the American soldiers were killed by Mexico? | Lincoln | |
| 318629332 | General Taylor's troops blockaded what river that made the Mexican soldiers angry enough to kill? | Rio Grande | |
| 318629333 | General Kearney captured what city without bloodshed? | Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
| 318629334 | American settlers in California overthrew the Mexican government and established...? | The California Bear Flag Republic | |
| 318629335 | General Winfield Scott's nickname | Old Fuss & Feathers | |
| 318629336 | Who captured the capital of Mexico ending the war? | General Winfield | |
| 318629337 | What treaty ended the war? | Treaty of Guadelupe Hildago | |
| 318629338 | After the Mexican war, the US gained how much Mexican territory? | half | |
| 318629339 | Who authorized the Gasden Purchase? | President Pierce | |
| 318629340 | Who were the candidates in the election of 1848? | Zack Taylor (Whig); Lewis Cass (Dem.); and Van Buren (Free Soil) | |
| 318629341 | Who were the "Immortal Trio"? What did they meet to discuss? | Clay, Calhoun, and Webster; Califonia being added and the South threatening to secede | |
| 318629342 | Who comes up with the compromise of 1850? | Clay, Calhoun, and Webster | |
| 318629343 | Who won the election of 1852? | Pierce (Dem) | |
| 318629344 | What party died out as a result of the election of 1852? | Whig | |
| 318629345 | Who proposed popular sovereignty first? | Cass | |
| 318629346 | What is popular sovereignty? | sovereign people of a territory decide about slavery | |
| 318629347 | Who likes popular sovereignty? | Nobody | |
| 318629348 | What were the four border states? | Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware | |
| 318671459 | What is fanaticism? | someone who holds an extreme point of view | |
| 318671460 | What was the ship from which two Confederate diplomats were removed creating crisis between London and Washington? | Trent | |
| 318671461 | What was the civil liberty that was suspendd by Lincoln in defiance of the Constitution and the Supreme Court's chief justice | Writs of Habueus Corpus | |
| 318671462 | Financial arrangement set up by the federal government to sell government bonds and stabilize currency | National Banking System | |
| 318671463 | Slippery Northern men who collected fees for enlisting in the Union army and then deserted | Bounty Jumper | |
| 318671464 | Vessel built in Britain that wreaked havoc on Northern shipping until it was finally sunk in 1864 | Alabama | |
| 318671465 | American envoy whose shrewd diplomacy helped keep Britain neutral during the Civil War | Charles Francis Adams | |
| 318671466 | An old world aristocrat, manipulated as a pupped in Mexico | Maximilian | |
| 318671467 | An inexperienced leader in war but a genius at inspiring and directing his nation's cause | Lincoln | |
| 318671468 | Leader whose conflict with states' rights advocates and rigid personality harmed his ability to mobilize and direct nation's war effort | Jefferson Davis | |
| 318671469 | Nation whose upper classes hoped for a Confederate victory, while its working classes sympathized with the anti slavery North | Britain | |
| 318671470 | Scene of the largest northern anti-draft riot in 1863 | New York | |
| 318671471 | Who set up the American Red Cross? | Clara Barton | |
| 318671472 | Slippery French Dictator who ignored the Monroe doctrine by intervening in Mexican politics | Napoleon III | |
| 318671473 | First woman physician, organizer of the United States Sanitary Commission | Elizabeth Blackwell | |
| 318671474 | Who had an organized government? | The Union | |
| 318671475 | Who had Naval strength? | The Union | |
| 318671476 | Who had brilliant military leaders? | The Confederate | |
| 318671477 | Who gained international statues through recognition as a nation? | The Union | |
| 318671478 | What was the North's military strategy? | Total War with 6 parts: 1. Blockade 2. Liberate Slaves 3. Capture Mississippi River 4. Send Troops 5. Decapitate Capital 6. Try to engage enemy's strength and crush them | |
| 318671479 | What was the North's military plan often called? | Anaconda Plan | |
| 318671480 | What was the South's military strategy? | Fight a defensive war EXCEPT for the two invasions in Maryland and Pennsylvania | |
| 318671481 | What did the Wilmot Proviso propose? | Land gained form the Mexican War would be free of slavery | |
| 318671482 | What was the significance of the Wilmot Proviso? | Reopened the issue of slavery; North takes powerful stand against slavery | |
| 318671483 | Why did the Wilmot Proviso never pass? | The south had equal say in the senate | |
| 318671484 | According to the Compromise of 1850, California was to enter as a --- state? | free | |
| 318671485 | According to the Compromise of 1850, all other territory gained from Mexican would be organized on the basis of ...? | Popular Sovereignty | |
| 318671486 | What happened to the slave trade and slavery in D.C. in the Compromise of 1850? | The slave trade was illegal but slavery was not | |
| 318671487 | Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 318671488 | What was the significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin? | It was a huge political force that helped start the Civil War | |
| 318671489 | What was the significance of the Compromise of 1850? | It held the country together and gave the North the balance permanently tipped in their favor | |
| 318671490 | What did the Personal Liberty Laws do? | they hampered enforcement of fugitive slave laws saying that jails did not have to house slaves | |
| 318671491 | What was the significance of the Personal Liberty Laws? | The states found a way around federal laws and it awakened huge antagonism against the south | |
| 318671492 | What were the fugitive slave laws? | Laws that stated that fleeing slaves could not testify and the north had to help catch runaway slaves | |
| 318671493 | What was repealed in the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | The Missouri Compromise | |
| 318671494 | What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Organized Kansas and Nebraska territory on the basis of popular sovereignty | |
| 318686643 | Who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | the South | |
| 318686644 | What was the main plank in the platform for the Republican party? | Keep slavery out of the territories | |
| 318686645 | Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Steven Douglas | |
| 318686646 | What wrecked the Compromises of 1850 and 1820? | The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
| 318686647 | What were Lincoln and Douglas debating for? | The senate seat | |
| 318686648 | What deemed the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional? | Dred Scott Case | |
| 318686649 | What was Douglas's opinion on whether or not slavery could be excluded from a territory? | "Friedport Doctrine"; If people vote it down it can't exist | |
| 318686650 | Who were the candidates in the election of 1860? | Lincoln (Rep); Douglas (Dem); Bell (Constitutional Union Party); Breckinridge (South Dem.) | |
| 318686651 | Who won the election of 1860? | Lincoln | |
| 318686652 | What was the main issue in the election of 1860? | Should there be slavery in the territories? | |
| 318686653 | What is the significance of the election of 1860? | South thinks they've lost all political voice and secede | |
| 318686654 | Who was the first state to secede? | South Carolina | |
| 318686655 | When was the attack on Fort Sumpter? | April 12, 1861 | |
| 318686656 | Who attacked who at Fort Sumpter? | Confederates attack Union | |
| 318686657 | Where is Fort Sumpter? | South Carolina | |
| 318686658 | Who led a raid at Harper's Ferry to free the blacks and start their own state and was found guilty of treason? | John Brown | |
| 318686659 | Where is Harper's Ferry? | Virginia |