Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Chapter 15-The Coming Crisis
U.S. History
59
History
11th Grade
01/19/2010

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
What were the debates on slavery between the Illinois Republican and Democratic candidates for the  U.S. Senate that occured in seven towns from mid-August to mid-October 1858 known as?
Definition
The Lincoln Douglas Debates
Term
What was Stephen A. Douglas' nickname?
Definition
The Little Giant
Term
What did Douglas accuse Lincoln of favoring, and what did Lincoln accuse Douglas of supporting?
Definition
  • Douglas accused Lincoln of favoring social equality of whites and blacks
  • Lincoln accused Douglas of supporting the spread of slavery
Term
How could the united states be described by 1850?
Definition
  1. tripled in size
  2. Three million square miles
  3. Sixteen to Thirty-one states
  4. Population lived west of appalacians
  5. Most rapid growth they would ever experience (wealth, industry)
Term
What authors were identified with the American Renaissance?
Definition
Thorou, Hawthrone, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Douglas
Term
Who was the author of Moby Dick and what was it about?
Definition
Melville wrote it and it was about the nature of good and evil and a critique of American society
Term
Who wrote Walden and what was it about?
Definition
Thorou wrote it criticizing the cost of the individual of the loss of contact with nature which was because of the conflict revolution
Term
What was one of the best selling American novels in history? Who wrote it? What did it critique?
Definition

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

it was antislavery

Term
What main characters appear in Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Definition
  1. Tom- Christ like
  2. Simon- evil white overseer
  3. Eliza- slavewoman about to lose her child
  4. Eva- white child who was close to Tom 
Term
What does the map of the U.S. population and settlement in 1850 show?
Definition
  1. Most territory east of the Indian territory had six people per square mile
  2. Least populated area was south Florida
  3. N. Wisconsin and Michigan had two people per square mile
  4. N. Maine was scarcley populated
Term
What does the map of the U.S. compromise of 1850 show in regard to the Mexican American war?
Definition
Territories that were obtained were Utah, New Mexico, parts of Texas, and all of Arkansas
Term
What did John C. Calhoun argue in the debate preceding the Compromise of 1850?
Definition
the the constitution protected the individual's rights to property everywhere and that state's rights were a legitimate defense of minority rights 
Term
What are examples of how national organizations were breaking into sectional parts by 1860?
Definition
  1. Presbyterian chruch seperated
  2. Baptist church seperated
  3. Methodist church seperated
  4. American party seperated
Term
Who made up the older generation of sectional leaders who played a final role in the debates of 1850?
Definition

 

  1. Daniel Webster
  2. Henry Clay
  3. John C. Calhoun
Term
Why did the belief that there was a southern slave-owner conspiracy to make the entire country a slave county spread among Northerners in the 1850's?
Definition
The South was very defensive and demanded equality in senate and a veto over presidential candidates.
Term
What does the emergence of the Free Soil Party in 1848 suggest in regard to its supporters?
Definition
That they were advocating the rights of non-slave holding whites
Term
What did senator Seward of New York argue in regard to slavery?
Definition
Slavery was not only morally wrong but to the country it was intellectually servursive
Term
What did Southerners argue in support to the slave system?
Definition
  1. Slavery promoted democracy by ensuring the vote to the qualified people
  2. Slavery was an economic engine that created prosperity
  3. Slavery provided a life long net of paternalistic benevolence
  4. Slavery was a blessing to an inferior race
Term
What did the Compromise of 1850 include?
Definition
  1. California came in as a free state
  2. Southwest territories were to be settled by popular sovereignty
  3. stronger fugitive slave law was enacted
  4. The slave trade was outlawed in Washington D.C.
  5. The Texas-New Mexico border dispute was settled
Term
Which president died suddenly during the debate over the Compromise of 1850?
Definition
Zachary Taylor
Term
What law of 1850 put the full authority of the federal government behind the southern efforts to capture escaped slaves?
Definition
The Fugitive Slave Act
Term
What former slave was involved in the most famous case of failed resistance to the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law?
Definition
Anthony Burns
Term
What impact did the Fugitive slave law have on blacks and on northern whites, and how rigourously did the federal government enforce it?
Definition
  1. Drove many blacks to flee to Canada
  2. Convinced many Northern whites that slavery was a moral wrong
  3. Captured slaves were at the mercy of the slave catchers (no right of defense)
  4. Federal government enforced it rigourously to avoid a split
Term
Who was the last presidential candidate the Whigs ever had?
Definition
General Winfield Scott
Term
Why was the election of 1852 important?
Definition
The disagreement at the convention showed that the national party was growing weaker  
Term
Why did Franklin Peirce win the election of 1852?
Definition
  1. Southern disaproved of their candidate
  2. the urban machines in the north turned out the immigrant vote
  3. Democrats promised to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law
  4. Peirce had sympathy with the south 
Term
What was the Ostend Manifesto?
Definition
A document composed by Suelo, Buchanan and Mason that said if Spain won't sell Cuba to us then we will seize it
Term
The efforts of Commodore Matthew Perry led to an 1854 treaty that opened trade with what previoulsy isolated Asian nation?
Definition
Japan
Term
What events were representation of the expantionist sentiments of the Pierce administration?
Definition
  1. The attempt to obtain Cuba
  2. The takeover of Nicaragua's government by William Walker
  3. The accusation of the Gasten purchase by Mexico
  4. The 1854 trade agreement with Japan
Term
What legislation led by Douglas repealed the Missouri compromise in return for the southern support for a transcontinental railroad to be built west of Chicago?
Definition
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Term
What political party was organized partly because of the  Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Definition
The Republicans
Term
Who were the "Border Ruffians"?
Definition
Missourians who crossed into Kansas to cast fraudulent ballots to promote the pro-slavery cause
Term
What does the term "Bleeding Kansas" refer to?
Definition
The violence and killing between the people of the pro and anti slavery forces that became open warfare in 1856
Term
Who intentionally contributed to the rising violence in Kansas?
Definition
  1. John Brown and his followers
  2. People running across border to cast fraudulent votes
  3. Easterners paying the way for people to go to Canada to vote
  4. Senator David Atchinson 
Term
What event showed how violent sectional feelings could become?
Definition
"Bleeding Kansas"
Term
Who were the Know-nothings? How did they get their name?
Definition
American Party members who often belonged to secret protestant paternal organizations
Term
What does the term Nativism refer to in the 1850s?
Definition
Fear and hatred of immigrants
Term
Why did the American Party develop?
Definition
  1. Breakup of the Whig party
  2. Belief that Catholics were against reform and were controlled by the pope
  3. Irish immigrants supported democrats
  4. Immigrants caused rising crime rates
Term
Who were the presidential candidates in the 1856 election?
Definition
  1. Freemont (Republican)
  2. Buchanan (Democratic)
  3. Filmore (American/Know-Nothing)
Term
Why did Buchanan become the Democratic candidate in 1856?
Definition
  • He had not taken a public stand in the Kansas-Nebraska act 
  • Was from the North but agreed with the South
Term
Why was the election of 1856 acctually two elections?
Definition
There was one set of candidates for the north and one set for the south
Term
Who beat up Charles Sumner on the Senate floor in 1856?
Definition
Preston Brooks
Term
What resulted from the Dred Scott decision?
Definition
  1. slave owners could take their property from state to state 
  2. Federal government wouldnt interfere with the movement of slaves
  3. encouraged southerners to feel they were right
Term
What was the state constitution of Kansas under which the pro-slavery territiorial government applied for admission to the Union in 1857 known as?
Definition
The Lecompton Constitution
Term
What resulted from the application of the doctrine of popular sovereignty in Kansas?
Definition
Produced two territorial legislators and a bogus pro-slavery constitution
Term
What convinced the South that its system was superior?
Definition
The Panic of 1857
Term
What resulted from John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
Definition
  1. made Brown a noble martyr for anti-slavery
  2. raised fear among southerners (slave rebellion)
  3. convinced South that cecession was the only response to these actions
  4. Deaths of eight of Brown's men and Brown was hanged
Term
Who were the "Secret Six" that provided John Brown with financial support?
Definition
Smith, Stearns, Sanborn, Wentworth-Higginson, Parker, Gridley-Howe
Term
What does that map titled "The South Secedes" show?
Definition
That southern states divided with low country areas voting against secession
Term
To what does the term "irrepressible conflict" refer?
Definition
That a civil war was unavoidable
Term
What does the map of the election of 1860 show?
Definition
  1. Breckinridge won the deep south
  2. Bell won three states in upper south
  3. Lincoln won fives states republican and lost in 1856
  4. Bell swept the lower south
Term
Who was the only national candidate in the election of 1860?
Definition
Stephen A. Douglas
Term
What did the Republican platform of 1860 include?
Definition
  1. Federal govt. support for economic development
  2. higher protective tariff to aid businesses
  3. support for a transcontinental railroad
  4. proposal to provide nearly free western land (homestead act)
Term
What was the first state to secede on December 20, 1860?
Definition
South Carolina
Term
How were the southerners divided when the southern states started to secede?
Definition
low country and upper country areas
Term
What did Lincoln believe he should do when the lower south seceded?
Definition
Decided that democracy was on trial and that he should hold still and wait
Term
What does the contitution of the Confederate States of America suggest in regard to the primary reason that the South seceded?
Definition
to protect slavery
Term
What was the strategy of the Confederates at the Montgomery convention?
Definition
to choose moderates as leaders and claim seccesion was in mutual interests of the North and the South
Term
What do the days around Lincoln's inaugeration show?
Definition
That he didnt want to go to war but would if it was necessary
Supporting users have an ad free experience!