APUSH: Unit 5 (1844-1877)

westward migration

a phenomenon involving American pioneers in the 1840s who desired access to natural and mineral resources, hoped for economic opportunities, and sought religious refuge

Alamo

the building in which Colonel William B. Travis and his men held San Antonio under attack from 6000 Mexican soldiers under Presiden tAntonio Lopez de Santa Anna

President James K. Polk

the president

Oregon Territory

the territory jointly claimed by the U.S. and Great Britain

“Oregon Fever”

Oregon Trail

Joseph Smith

Mormon Religion

Brigham Young

Utah

Johann A. Sutter

Gold Rush

Forty-Niners

San Francisco

John L. O’Sullivan

Homestead Act

Transcontinental Railroad

Commodore Matthew Perry

Kanagawa Treaty

boundary dispute

Rio Grande River

Zachary Taylor

Mr. Polk’s War

Gadsden Purchase

Wilmot Proviso

squatter sovereignty

popular sovereignty

Free-Soil Party

Henry Clay

Compromise of 1850

Catholic

anti-Catholic nativist movement

Know-Nothing Party

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

underground railroad

Harriet Tubman

Free-Soil Party

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

popular sovereignty

border ruffians

Bleeding Kansas

Charles Sumner

“The Crime Against Kansas”

Brooks caned Sumner

Dred Scott

Dred Scott v. Sandford

The Republican Party

Third Two-Party System

“House Divided” speech

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Freeport Doctrine

Abraham Lincoln

Constitutional Union Party

John Bell

Election of 1860

South Carolina

secede

Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

Fort Sumter

advantages of the Union

advantages of the Confederacy

First Battle of Bull Run

Anaconda Plan

Control of the Mississippi

General Ulysses S. Grant

“total war”

General William T. Sherman

declaration of “total war”

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Capture Richmond

Battle of Gettysburg

national draft law

conscription

Conscription Act

preserve the union

Confiscation Act

Emancipation Procclamation

habeas corpus

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address