Vocab Quiz 7 Tyler-->Bleeding Kansas

John Tyler

-10th pres

-whig

-created webster-ashburton treaty

Webster Ashburton Treaty

-treaty resolving border dispute betw US and Brit

-Maine-New Brunswick, Lake Superior, Lake of Woods—→49th parallel as border to West

Nativism

-hostility to immigrants

-native borns better than immig

Know-Nothings

-Opposed immigrants, Irish and German Catholics

-knew nothing when asked about immigration

Commonwealth vs. Hunt

-MA ruled (1842) that Labor Unions were legal, worker could strike

Gabriel Prosser

-African-American preacher

-tried to lead rebellion, it was discovered, rebel-crushed, hanged

Denmark Vesey

-Slave from SC

-bought his freedom

-planned to attack Charleston to steal armory, plan betrayed, hanged him and his followers

Nat Turner

-slave believed God told him to save his people from slavery

-Led Nat Turner’s Reb, killed lots women and children while men away

-caught killed

-largest black revolt

-scared south and more slave codes passed

Frederick Douglass

-the liberator

-editor, abolitionist, writer statesman

-escaped slavery

William Lloyd Garrison

-journalist, abolitionist

-found American Anti Slave Society

-created the liberator

Harriet Tubman

-underground railroad, freed slaves

Harriet Beecher Stowe

-Uncle Tom’s Cabin

-wrote to depict the harsh realities of slaves

Angelina and Sarah Grimke

-abolitionists and women’s rights

Sojourner Truth

-abolitionist

-Ain’t I a woman

Apologists

-people who said slavery was good and beneficial to society

John Calhoun

-slavery-=positive good

Manifest Destiny

-idea that it was America’s destiny to conquer all the land/expand

Steven Austin

-brought settlers to Texas (Mexico), leader

Empresarios

-person who arranged settlement of Texas land

-land was cheap as long as they obeyed law and be Roman Catholic

Alamo

-Texan defeat site when Santa Anna did siege

Lone Star Republic

-Rep of TX

-indep sov of North America bs of TX rev from Mexico

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

-ended Mexican-American War

-Mexico gave CA,NV, OR, AR, CO

Oregon Trail

-major route migrants took to come to West, hard journey, took months

James Polk

-dark horse

-extend territory bc mex-amer war

-annex tex, OR, mex cession

54 40’ or Fight!

-US sought to get land 54 degrees 40’ north parallel or fight brit to get it

Gadsden Purchase

-bought land from mex

-$10 mill

-land became NM and AR

Ostend Manifesto

-US want to purchase Cuba from Spain, if not then war to get it, slave state

-plans got leaked, didn’t work

Walker Mission

-tried to take Baja CA from mex

-took Nicaragua to make proslavery empire but killed by Hondurans

Wilmot Proviso

-bill that said no slavery/involun servitude in new territories

-unsuccessful but brought up topic of slavery

Free-Soil Party

-want to ban slavery

-want internal improvements

Compromise of 1850

-5 laws

-attempt to preserve union

1. CA=free state

2. UT & NM want to enter union, terri gov, pop sov, mex cess div 2 terri=ut and nm

3. TX gave money to give up mex claims $10 mill

4. Fugitive Slave Act

5. Washington DC = there no slave trade, but slavery allowed

Henry Clay

-war hawk

-MO Comp (MO slave state, ME free state into Union)

Daniel Webster

-webster-haynes debate over states rights

-sec of state

Stephen Douglas

-senator=pop sov

-transcont rail, free homestead

-influential in the enactment of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

Popular Sovereignty

-people determine if their territory is lave state or not

Kansas-Nebraska Act

-pop sov, Kansas=free Nebraska=slave state

-overturn MO comp

Bleeding Kansas

• the act produced violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.

Pottawatomie Massacre

-John Brown killed 5

John Brown

-radical abolitionist

-killed apologists

Brooks vs. Sumner Caning

-Charles Sumner verbal attack Preston Brooks uncle, got beat with a cane

-growing sign of passion on both sides

LeCompton Constitution

-kansas pro slavery constit

-support slavery and shareholders

-rejected