apush unit 7

what is manifest destiny

god given right to conquer land to the pacific ocean

Who coined the mainfest destiny term

John O’sulivan

What did mexico outlaw?

Outlawed slavery, white settlers unhappy, roman catholics.

What did mexico prohibt?

new white settlers into the region, but white southerners continued to move in anyway

WHat happened after houston applied to have texas join the union?

Jackson and Van buren put off request due to the issue of slavery

What happened in the election of 1844?

James K. Polk (dark-horse) expansionists democrat wins

What happened at the Anglo-American Convention of 1818

U.S. and ENgland agree to peaceful occupy oregon territory

Consequences of the mexican american war

$15 milion, 1/3 of the Mexican territory

What is the wilmot proviso

territories obtained from Mexico could not become slave states

what were the fire eaters

radical southeners, talked openly of secession

What occured as a paer of the compromise of 1850

new fugitive slave act/law for the south

what was a product of the fugitive slave act of 1850

huge increase in secitonal tension in the 1850s as a result of the FSA

what led to the kansas-nebraska act

stephen douglas wants to secure a RR route, took rights from natives and made new territory called nebraska

What did the kansas nebraska act do?

repealed the missouri compromise of 1820

What happened in pottawatomie creek (bleeding kansas)

john brown and his crew attack pro-slavery forces. Murder an dmutilaiton

What did buchanan and the lecompton consitution try to do?

atttempted to bring kansas in as a slave state but failed and fractured the dem. party

what happened due to the dred scott decision

republicans realize buchanan and the SC were pro slavery, missouri comrpomise found to be unconsitutional

what was said in the lincoln douglas debate

“house divided aganist itself”

Significane of Harper’s Ferry (john brown)

south outraged and fear further violence

Democrats spiltting blamed who

blamed buchanan for problems in kansas, not being admitted as a slave state.

What do the southeners see Lincoln as

a sectional president

What was one immediate impact of the war

virgnia: many voted aganist secession, but seceded in april 1861

what did lincoln say about the war?

“the war is

what was the significance of antietam

bloodiest day in U.S. history, blocked french and british assisstance, lincoln prepared emancipation proclamation

what was the consfiscation act

slaves used for “insurrectionary purposes” declared free, incentive for slaves to escape union camps

what did the emancipation proclamation deckare

all slaves in rebel territory free (confederacy), does not free slaves in border territories

What were african americans like in the war

segregated units, fought corageously

what did lincoln suspend

suspends the writ of habeas corpus

poltics of south during the war

wants to be left alone with permanent independence

turning points of the civil war

gettysburg and vicksburg

impact of the civil war

any of the souths attempts at manufacturing now lay in ruin

what was a result of the 13th amendment

4 million slaves freed by the amendment (prohibited slavery across the us)