history test ch. 13-15

Hannibal Hamlin

Abraham Lincoln's vice presidential candidate in 1850

American Spelling Book/Blue-Backed Speller

commonly used textbook by Noah Webster

Freeport Doctrine

attempted doctrine by Stephen Douglas that stated people could ban slavery through popular sovereignty

Cotton

crop that dominated southern agriculture

Pony Express

Fastest method of sending messages to the west

William Taylor

Methodist missionary who spoke to the settlers in California

John C. Breckinridge

Nominee of the southern democrats

Fifty-four Forty or Fight!

Democrat party slogan in the election of 1844

Francis Cabot Lowell

invented the power loom

Wilmot Proviso

proposed to bar slavery from Mexican cession

Cotton gin

invention affected the southern agriculture

Hinton Rowan Helper

wrote The Impending Crisis of the South

Stephen A. Douglas

sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska bill

William Lloyd Garrison

published The Liberator

Seventh of March speech

speech in which Daniel Webster endorsed the compromise of 1850

Macadam road

type of road raised above the road to aid drainage

Marcus Whitman

Presbyterian missionary who led the great migration to Oregon

Oberlin College

first college to admit women

Plebiscite

demonstrated that most of the citizens of the Republic of Texas wanted to join the United States

Zachary Taylor

American officer who won the Battle of Buena Vista

John Brown

abolitionist; attacked proslavery settlement at Pottawatomie Creek

Teachers

Horace Mann encouraged normal schools to train _____?

Eliza Spalding or Narcissa Whitman

one of the first white women to journey west of the Rockies

1846-1848

Years of Mexican War

Harriet Tubman

Best-known leader of the Underground Railroad

1854

year the Republican party was formed

Jefferson Davis

was made president of the Confederacy in the Civil War

Zachary Taylor

general sent to protect the Texas border

Davy Crockett

Frontiersman who died in the Alamo

Josiah Holdbrook

founded the first lyceum

Cumberland Road

National road is also known as ____

Unity, I do not want to interfere with slavery where it already exists but I will not expand it any further

message that Abraham Lincoln expressed in his first inauguration speech

Slavery forced wages down because slaves were free, so factory workers would go north to get jobs

How slavery affected Southern Industrialism

Henry Clay

proposed the Compromise of 1850

Henry Clay

was the Whig nominee of the presidential election of 1844

Gold rush

Primary reason for American interest in California

Free-Soil Party

party made up of moderate abolitionist parties

Hudson River

Erie Canal connected Lake Erie to ______?

Samuel Slater

Father of the American factory system

Battle of San Jacinto

battle in which the Republic of Texas won its independence

John C Freemont

American officer; aided the Californians in the bear flag revolt

William Dean Howells

editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine

DeWitt Clinton

Responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal

John Slidell

American envoy to Mexico

Franklin Pierce

president who attempted to buy Cuba

Underground railroad

Network for escape routes

Robert E. Lee

American military commander sent to Harper’s Ferry

Clipper ships

America's greatest contribution to the history of sailing vessels

Jedediah Smith

Christian trailblazer in the west

Oliver Evans

first American to develop high-pressure steam engine

British law prevented the industrial secrets to spread to America

why American industries struggled to keep up with British industry immediately after her independence

Ruled that he was still a slave bc slaves were property and the US Court can’t seize property legally, claimed Missouri compromise was unconstitutional

In Dred Scott vs. Sanford, how did the Supreme Court rule

Became a battleground between anti and pro-slavery

How did the results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act show shortcomings of popular sovereignty

Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo

treaty that Mexico and US signed that ended the Mexican war

James Bowie, William B. Travis Scott

Texan joint commanders at the Alamo

Traditional education

kind of education that’s concerned with passing on to new generations the knowledge and proven methods of the past

Cyrus McCormick

invented the reaper