American History Test Study Guide

Missouri Compromise

-Missouri enters as a slave state

-Maine enters as a free state

-0 slave territory above Missouri

Mexican American War

U.S. beats Mexico in war & can gain their territory

Wilmot Proviso

-Effort by congressman

-Attempts to ensure that there will be no slavery from war

States (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California, & Utah)

2nd Middle Passage

-Many cotton plantations

-Slaves are being sold near further south

Sates: Arkansas, Mississippi, & Lousiana

“Sold down the river”

Idea that slaves were sold to the far south to cotton plantations

Harriet Tubman

-Helped around 70 ppl escape slavery w/ the Underground Railroad

-Womens rights activist

Free Soil Party

Party against slavery coming to new territory

1849 California Gold Rush (NEED TO KNOW DATE)

1849 ppl rushed to Cali to get gold

Compromise of 1850 (NEED TO KNOW DATE)

-Cali becomes free state

-New Mexico & Utah can MAYBE become slave states

-Fugitive slave law

Fugitive Slave Law

Even in free states, masters have a right to reclaim their slaves back

Popular Sovereignty

-Allows states to decided on their own

-Founded by Stephen Douglas in Kansas

(LED TO BLEEDING KANSAS)

Bleeding Kansas

-Originated by letting Kansas decide the status of its statue

-John Brown & family murderers 5 ppl (mini Civil War)

Dred Scott Decision

-Dred scott was enslaved even on free land then tries to sue

-His decision causes commotion between “AA”

Conclusion:

-Indicates that blacks have no rights

-Missouri Compromise is unuseful atp

Lincoln & Loss

Lincolns mom, older sis, & 2nd child died

Lincoln & Education

-Attended 1 year of school

-Reading & law

Lincoln & “Honest Abe”

His business collapses and he works to pay off his debts

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

-Biggest debate abt slavery

-Douglas made Lincoln look bad & he loses (lincoln)
-Debate makes Lincoln famous 

Raid on Hapers Ferry

-John Brown steals from storage place w/ weapons and gives to slaves so that they could rebel

-Lasted for abt. day before the slaves got either arrested, or hanged

Election of 1860 (NEED TO KNOW DATE)

Democrat - (North) Stephen Douglas

Democrat - (South) Breckenridge

Republic - Seward Lincoln - wins all states in North President

-Lincoln got elected in November & wins votes from state sin the North

-South Carolina voted themselves out the Union in December

William Seward

-Republican

-Went against Lincoln (1860 presedential election)

-Becomes Lincoln head advisor

Stephen Douglas

-Current republican senator/was hoping to get re-elected as senator to later become president

-Lincoln challenged him to debates and the main topic was about slavery

-Wanted to make Lincoln look radical by using his skin tone as an advantage

-Created idea of Popular Sovereignty

Grace Bedell

11 y/o who sent letter to Lincoln saying that he looked slim & that if he grew a beard, then her family would vote for him

Angelina Grimke

-Moved from South Carolina

-Wrote letter to Christian Women in the South to convince them that slavery needed to be stopped

Fredrick Douglass

-Ex slave

-Wrote biographies

-Famous for the newspaper “The North Star”
-Didn’t think he was a slave anymore after standing up to his master

-Wanted slavery to end

William Lloyd Garrison

-Wrote newspapers that appealed to logic & christian values

-Wrote “The Liberator”

-Wanted slavery to end

Harriet Beecher Stowe

-Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin

-Appealed to sympathy

-Started writing after her baby died

John Brown

-Believed that violence was the way to end slavery

-Led raid on harpers ferry

Immigrants to U.S.

Germany & Ireland

William Miller

-Thought that Jesus would come back in October 22, 1844

-Got his info in the book of Revelation

-The ppl who believed him became SDA

MAYBE BONUS QUESTION: 1 mil ppl in New England believed that

Joseph Smith

-Founded Mormonism

-Believed Polygamy (many died)

-Died bc of polygamy

-His followers were led by Brigham Young to Utah land

“The Burned Over District”

Part of NY where William Miller & Joseph Smith came from

Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott

Created women’s 1st convention (Seneca Falls Convention)

The Alamo

-Fight between Texans & Mexicans

-”Remember the Alamo”

Lonely Star Republic

What Texans called themselves after the Alamo

Why did the Democratic Party split in the election of 1860? 

Both sides disagreed on the topic of slavery (between Breckinridge & Douglass)