APUSH Period V

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended the Mexican American War

1850

California applies for statehood and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

1853

Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

1857

Dred Scott decision handed down by the Supreme Court

1860

Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President

1860-1861

Southern succession begins with South Carolina

1863

Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

1865

13th Amendment ratified abolishing slavery

1867

Reconstruction Acts give Congress control of the South

1869

15th Amendment ratified giving all citizens the right to vote

1873

Panic of 1873 sends America into economic depression

1876

Rutherford Hayes elected President, ending Reconstruction

Bleeding Kansas

Violent and bloody conflict arising from the split desire for Kansas to be a slave-state or free-state

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to exploit economic opportunities and influence politics with all their belongings in a “Carpetbag”

Free Soil Party

Political party that opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories, advocating for free land for settlers. Urged for the improvement of life for new settlers

Know Nothing Party

A nativist political party in the 1850s that aimed to restrict immigration and promote American-born citizens' interests, answering outsiders with “I know nothing”

Sharecropping

A system of agriculture where farmers would work land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crops produced

Border States

Slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War, including Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware

Compromise of 1877

An agreement that resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election, resulting in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and effectively ending Reconstruction

Habeas Corpus

A legal principle that protects individuals from unlawful detention, requiring that a person under arrest be brought before a judge.

Popular Sovereignty

Principle that stated those within a territory are those who should determine the status of slavery in that territory

Wilmot Proviso

Bill that ensured no territory gained from Mexico would allow for involuntary servitude at any measure