period 5 apush

nativism

It was a strong anti immigrant movement. native born people who didn't like immigrants and promoting policies that protect established residents economic and cultural interests.

Wilmot Proviso

a failed proposal by US congressman David Wilmot to ban slavery from any states acquired from Mexico

Free soil movement

Formed by anti slavery democrats, Whigs, and liberty party members to oppose slavery expansion in western territories

Abolitionists

activists who fought to end slavery

Mexican Cession

the vast territory, including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas, that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, for $15 million

Civil war

The disagreements, failed compromises between the North and South over slavery, expansion into new territories, all lead to slavery

Emancipation proclamation

Lincoln declared enslaved people in confederate states to be free during civil war and allowing black men to join the union army, which strengthened the Union’s army

Gettysburg address

A famous speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four months after the pivotal Civil War battle.

13th amendment

to end slavery

14th amendment

right of citizenship to former slaves

15th amendment

all black males had the same voting rights of white males

sharecropping

post civil war labor system where landowners provided land, housing and supplies to black free people and poor whites, which trapped them in debt