AP US History (Antebellum Period) Flashcards
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| 8384226763 | "54'40 or Fight" and Oregon | James Polk' declaration to the British, ultimately settled for the 49th parallel | 0 | |
| 8384231887 | Missouri Compromise (1820) | Maine as free state, Missouri as slave state, slavery prohibited north of 36°30' | 1 | |
| 8384238444 | Nullification Crisis (1832-33) | Southern States threatened to nullify taxes they disagreed with, Compromise of 1833 written by Henry Clay appeased both sides and the issue was dropped. | 2 | |
| 8384241923 | Wilmot Proviso (1846) | Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after war with Mexico. | 3 | |
| 8384241924 | Free Soil Party (1848) | First political party founded to stop the expansion of slavery into the territories. | 4 | |
| 8384252019 | Mexican War (1846-8) & Treaty | Defending American Sovereignty in Texas and desired California Expansion; War ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 | 5 | |
| 8384255098 | Fugitive Slave Act | 1850 law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves;made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas | 6 | |
| 8384259839 | Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | Harriet Beecher Stowe; novel which played upon stereotypes to appeal to anti-slavery feelings of northerners; angered southern slave states due to the harsh portrayal of slavery | 7 | |
| 8384265337 | Gadsden Purchase (1853) | US paid Mexico $10 million for a strip of land in Arizona and New Mexico. | 8 | |
| 8384265338 | Bleeding Sumner | Charles Sumner was attacked because of a speech that he made against proslavery forces in Kansas | 9 | |
| 8384271158 | Dred Scott (1857) | Slaves were property and could not sue. Missouri Compromise ruled unconstitutional. | 10 | |
| 8384278181 | Lincoln Douglas Debates | Series of debates in which Lincoln challenge Douglas over the issue of slavery in the west | 11 | |
| 8384278182 | Brown's Raid (1859) | 12 | ||
| 8384285338 | Democratic Convention of 1860 | 13 | ||
| 8384292382 | Political Reassignment/Second Party System | 14 | ||
| 8384292383 | Border States | Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri: Slave states that did not secede | 15 | |
| 8384306042 | Battles: Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Fredricksburg, Appomattox | 16 | ||
| 8384310966 | Confederate and Union Drafts | 17 | ||
| 8384310967 | NYC Draft Riot (1863) | 18 | ||
| 8384325799 | George McClellan, "Copperheads", and the Election of 1864 | 19 | ||
| 8384325800 | Morrill Tariff | 1861 law that increased tariffs duties to 10% | 20 | |
| 8384334844 | Land Grant Act (1862) | 21 | ||
| 8384334845 | 1844 Election | 22 | ||
| 8384338605 | Manifest Destiny | 1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent. | 23 | |
| 8384342991 | Annexation of Texas (and Texas Ind.) | Mexico offered for US. citizens to populate Texas in order to increase the population and economy; Americans called for annexation for the lone star republic when Mexico banned any further slavery into the state. | 24 | |
| 8384354015 | "Gag Rule" Controversy (1836-1844) | Legislation passed that made it law to table any slavery legislation in the Senate | 25 | |
| 8384354016 | Liberty Party | Antislavery party that won 16,000 votes in election of 1844, hurt Clay's chance at victory. | 26 | |
| 8384361731 | "Conscience" vs. "Cotton Whigs" | Conscience Whigs were anti-slavery, northerners Cotton Whigs were pro-slavery, southerners Caused the downfall of the Whigs in the 1850's | 27 | |
| 8384361732 | Compromise of 1850 | Devised by Clay - California was free state, stricter Fugitive Slave Law, ended Slave Trade in DC | 28 | |
| 8384367029 | Personal Liberty Laws | Forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed that they would have jury trials | 29 | |
| 8384367030 | 2nd Party System | Democrats and Whigs; Republicans and Democrats | 30 | |
| 8384372871 | Ostend Manifesto (1854) | Secret negotiation attempting to acquire Cuba as a slave state from Spain | 31 | |
| 8384377629 | Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) | People would vote to determine whether slavery would be allowed in their state | 32 | |
| 8384382291 | Sack of Lawrence | 1856 beginning to Bleeding Kansas; proslavery raiders shot up and burned part of Lawrence | 33 | |
| 8384382292 | Pottawatomie Massacre | (1856) an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans | 34 | |
| 8384388326 | LeCompton Constitution | Pro-slave constitution that got voted in for Kansas after anti-slavery people boycotted the election | 35 | |
| 8384388327 | Panic of 1857 | Financial crash brought on by gold-fueled inflation, overspeculation, and excess grain production | 36 | |
| 8384399312 | Secession Crisis (1860-1861) | 37 | ||
| 8384407238 | Compact Theory | The belief that states are prior to the union because they created the union. | 38 | |
| 8384412597 | Crittenden Compromise | (1861) called for constitutional amendments guaranteeing the legality of slavery in slave states | 39 | |
| 8384412598 | Fort Sumter | First battle of the Civil War | 40 | |
| 8384416517 | Know Nothings | a political party of the mid-1800s, officially known as the American Party that opposed immigration | 41 | |
| 8384416518 | "Anaconda Plan" | 42 | ||
| 8384424703 | Emancipation Proclamation (1863) | Freed slaves in areas loyal to the Confederacy | 43 | |
| 8384433336 | National Banking Act (1863) | 44 | ||
| 8384433337 | Legal Tender Act (1863) | 45 | ||
| 8384439061 | Homestead Act (1862) | Gave 160 acres of land to any adult willing to farm it and live on it for 5 years | 46 | |
| 8384444268 | Pacific Railroad Act (1862) | 47 | ||
| 8384444269 | John Tyler | 10th U.S. President. 1841-1845. Whig | 48 | |
| 8384449851 | James Polk | a Democrat expansionist who ran against Henry Clay in 1844: "54 40 or fight", Mexican-American War; 11th President of the United States | 49 | |
| 8384449852 | David Wilmot | Congressman who proposed the amendment that would have outlawed slavery from Mexican territories | 50 | |
| 8384455056 | 1848 Election | Lewis Cass (D) war veteran Zachary Taylor (Whig) won | 51 | |
| 8384455057 | Triangular Trade | A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa | 52 | |
| 8384465066 | Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy (1822) | 53 | ||
| 8384469289 | Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831) | resistance of enslaved to slavery | 54 | |
| 8384474593 | William Lloyd Garrison (1831) | 55 | ||
| 8384478142 | John. C. Calhoun | South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights, limited government, and nullification | 56 | |
| 8384482444 | Stephen Douglas | an American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act | 57 | |
| 8384482445 | Preston Brooks | Responsible for beating radical republican Charles Sumner with his cane | 58 | |
| 8384487453 | John Freemont | An American general who helped to overthrow the Mexican rule of California. | 59 | |
| 8384487454 | William Walker | Southerner who took over Nicaragua in 1855, became president, ruler for a year, and was caught | 60 | |
| 8384493912 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | 61 | |
| 8384499382 | Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate Army | 62 | |
| 8384499383 | Stonewall Jackson | General in the Confederate army, led Confederate army in the 1st Battle of Bull Run | 63 | |
| 8384505566 | "Radical Republicans" | 64 | ||
| 8384505567 | Clement Vallandigham | Notorious Copperhead, convicted of treason, who ran for governor of Ohio while exiled to Canada | 65 | |
| 8384510529 | Alexander P. Stephens | 66 | ||
| 8384510530 | John Brown | Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia | 67 | |
| 8384516912 | Eli Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) | 68 | |
| 8384516913 | "popular sovereignty" | The idea that a state/territory gets to choose if they want slavery or not in their land. | 69 | |
| 8384522744 | "Slaveocracy" | society organized around slavery; slaveholders have power | 70 | |
| 8384522745 | Roger Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Dred Scott decision was made | 71 |