APUSH SEMESTER 1 PERIODS 3-5

Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Aftermath of the Civil war and how the country repaired

Mexican American War time frame

1846-1848

Manifest Destiny

Belief that it was our destiny (as americans) and our god given right to expand westward

Homestead Act

160 acres (in the west) given to family if they lived and farmed on it for 5 years

Transcontinental Railroad Time Frame

1862

Mexican-American War Time Frame

1846-1848

Mexican-American War

American war against Mexico to gain more land

What did the Mexican-American war lead to?

New territories in the west and more political issues about slavery

What treaty ended the Mexican-American war?

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

California Gold Rush Time Frame

1848

Preemption acts

gave settlers squatting rights

Gadsden Purchase

Bought parts of New Mexico and Arizona

Gadsden Purchase Time Frame

1853

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive slave law, california free state, banned slave trade in DC, and utah and new mexico vote on the issue of slavery

Fugitive Slave Law

Escaped slaves could be taken back into the south by federal officials if resided in free states

Free Soil Movement

Keep western land free

Free Soil Movement Time

1848

Popular Sovereignty

Let territories vote on whether to keep slavery in their state

Advantage of the North

Industry

Advantage of the south

Agriculture

Panic of 1856

an economic crisis that mostly just effected the north

Nativists

people who opposed immigration

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

What did “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” oppose

Slavery

How did the south try to counteract the effects of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?

They wrote pro slavery books

Kansas-Nebraska Act Time

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote if they wanted to keep slavery within their borders or not

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act Violate

The Missouri Compromise

Bleeding Kansas

Bloody fighting that broke out in Kansas against pro-slavery people and abolitionists

John Brown

The man that lead a group of abolitionists to attack Harper’s ferry

What did John Brown oppose

Slavery

Seccond Party System comes to an end in…

1854

What was the second party system

the Whigs and the Democrats

Republican party forms to replace what?

the Whig Party

What year was Lincon first Elected in?

1860

What was the Crittenden Compromise?

The compromise that tried to put slavery into the constitution

How many people died during the Civil War?

700,000

What was the start of the Civil War?

Fort Sumter

Habeas Corpus

The right to a speedy trial & other 5th amendment rights

Scott’s Great Snake

Blockade that suppressed the south and reduced supply coming in

Antietam

Bloodiest day of the Civil War

Emancipation Proclamation

Declared that all slaves were free

Scorched Earth Policy

Orders to burn everything to the ground within a stretch of land in the south by northern generals

Lincon killed

1865

Trent Affair

US captured confederate diplomats on British ship

Failure of Cotton diplomacy lead to

Brittian seeking cotton elsewhere

Copperheads

Peacfull democrats in the union

What could you do during the draft

buy your way out

Civil War Amendments

13, 14, 15

13th Amendment

ended slavery

14th Amendment

equal protection for African-Americans and due process

15th Amendment

Voting rights for Aftican-American Males

Junteenth

the last slavery were told that they were free

Minor V Happersett

ruled that the 14th amendment didn’t give women equal protection

What did the North do to enforce the Amendments

military presence in the south

What election ended the Reconstruction

Hayes

Proclomation of Amnesty

full pardon if 10% took loyalty oath

Freeman’s Bureau

Wellfare agency to help newly freed slaves

Southern Governments of 1865

allowed southern states to join the union easily

Black Codes

Restricted newly freed slave rights

Johnson

Vice president to Lincon that became president and everyone hated him

Scalawag

southern republicans

Carpetbaggers

Northerners in the south

What election gained the Republicans 2/3 majority

Election of 1866

Panic of 1873

Shifted focus off of slavery and African Americans

Sharecropping

a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

Exodusters

African-Americans who went to Kansas

Redeemers

Southerners that oppressed African Americans

Klu Klux Klan

Terrorist group that terrorised African Americans

Poll Taxes & Literacy Test

Ways to opress African American’s right to vote by making them pay to vote and pass a literacy test

Compromise of 1877

Republicans cut a deal with the south to remove troops from the south in exchange for the presidency

End of Reonstruction

1877

Cause of the end of reconstruction

comprosmise of 1877

Sectionalism

Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South and West). This can lead to conflict.

Age of Jefferson

The first political parties in the U.S. were established in the 1790s because of the political differences between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

Age of Jefferson Time

1801-1809

Louisiana Purchase

territory in western United States purchased from France for $15 million

Louisiana Purchase Time

1803

Marbury v. Madison

This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review

Marbury v. Madison Time

1803

McCullough v. Maryland

In establishing a national bank, established that federal laws supercede state laws

McCullough v. Maryland time

1819

Aaron Burr

Jefferson's Vice President; killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel

Embargo Act

a law that prohibited American merchants from trading with other countries

Embargo Act Time

1807

American System

John quincy Adams

What did the American System do?

established a protective tariff, a national bank and improved the transportation system

Missouri Compromise

an agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories

Missouri Compromise Time

1820

Era of Good Feelings

A name for President Monroe's two terms, a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, and territorial expansion. Since the Federalist party dissolved after the War of 1812, there was only one political party and no partisan conflicts.

Era of Good Feelings Time

1816-1824

War of 1812

A 2 year war between the United States and England (impressment) which was trying to interfere with American trade with France.

How long was the War of 1812?

2 years

War of 1812 Time

1812-1814

Impressment

British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service

Results of the War of 1812

• respect for the US

• Hartford Convention

• Nationalism Grew

• War Heros

Monroe Doctrine Time

1823

Trail of Tears

The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. and journey westward

Trail of Tears Time

1838

Industrilization

the process of changing an economy to rely more on manufacturing and less on farming (agriculture)