APUSH time period 5

terms from time period five of apush

American Progress

A painting that symbolizes Manifest Destiny, depicting the westward expansion of settlers and the displacement of Native Americans.

antebellum

before the war

manifest destiny

it is Gods destiny for America to expand to the west

Texas annexation

Texas into the United States, which contributed to tensions leading to the Mexican-American War. Leads to issues of slavery and the debate over free versus slave states.

Oregan into the Union

refers to the admission of the Oregon Territory as a state in the United States, which was significant in the context of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. And the south wants Oregan to be added because they could be the free state what would allow slavery to be in Texas

Slidell mission

A diplomatic mission sent by the United States to Mexico to negotiate the purchase of California

Texas says no but because James K pulk beliefs in manifest destiny and thinks he needs to get California

James K Pulk

mentored by Andrew Jackson

brings the country into the war with mexico

and strongly advocated for Manifest Destiny, believing it was America's fate to expand its territory.

reasons for the war

Mexico invaded the us and attacked American solders

the US has to defend her honor

Clays reasons against the war

unjustified and thinks that the US can not handle the land they already have to gaining more land would make the US harder to Govern.

Abraham Lincoln (Mexican war)

Thinks the same as clay and calls Pulk out on saying that Mexican Solders attacks on the US soil. He says that it was on disputed territory instead

Lincon says if the war was on US land he will support it but he knows it was on dispute

Spot resolutions

Lincon asks Pulk to show were Mexico attacked on US soil

Wilmont Proviso

Law proposed that all land from Mexico should be free

this was proposed by a Pennsylvanian democrat, so it shows that the democrat perspectives are changing

tready of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

the US buys the land of Califora from Mexico to be nice and so Mexico cannot claim that the US took the land

Mexican Cession

the land they got from Mexico

Gadsden Purchase

bought land to make a railroad

finishes all of the land in the continental US

Filibusters

south attempts to try to buy islands in Caribbean to get the south more slave territory

Ostend Manifesto

south tries to buy Cuba so have slaves make sugar and have 2 cash crops

free soil party

oppose the extension of slavery in western territories

they want the west to be a place for economic gain for white people to buy land

cali gold rush

right after it is bought from Mexico

increases tensions of slavery because it becomes a state

fire eaters

people in the south that threaten to leave the union

southern advantages in the war

is there is a balance in the senate than abolishing of slavery can not be passed

rising cotton prices make them feel confidant

president Taylor is pro slavery

compomise of 1850

by henry clay

uses popular sovereignty to decide if Utah and mexico will be slave or free

fugitive slave law

enforce people to capture runaway slaves

people in north start to thing that slavery is morally wrong

Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore

allows the compromise

Underground rail road

south is angry because federal government is not helping catch her

uncle toms cabin

book that helps people start seeing the moral things wrong with slavery

Kansas Nebraska act

popular serenity states that used this to decide

bleeding kansas

south kills northerners going to Kansas trying to get it to be a free state

John brown

kills slave owners

Caning of Charles Sumner

he talks against the south and about bleeding Kansas

Preston brooks kills him

Dred Scott vs sanford

claims he is free federal gov says they do not have rights at citizens

goal of the north

originally to just keep the union together but terns into abolishing slavery

goal of the south

to leave the union so they are able to maintain the system of slavery

anaconda plan

Union creates a blockade around all the south major ports

this leads to the south not being able to trade cotton with Europe

the south cannot gain materials like guns and such for the war because they have to import the stuff in because the south only has cotton

emanation proclamation

not a law but an executive order

the south hates it and the north has mixed feelings about it

the first time that the federal gov says that slavery is good or bad

borders states are unclear if slavery is abolished or not

turns union army into abolitionists

habeas corpus

the write to have a fair trial

bans habeas corpus

this is a scare tactic to get people to support the north

Copperheads

democrats that want peace and dont want the civil war to happen

England and the south

England needs the souths cotton so the south uses that to get England to say that they are legit

England is against slavery, so they do not want to support the south

Lincon says the proclomation to make it clear to england that the war is about slavery

thoughts on the war in the north

they hate it because they feel like they are not effected by it

rich mans war poor mans fight

the poor people are fighting in the war and the rich people pay to get out of the draft

shermans march to sea

the union goes through atl because it is the transportation center

if they can take atl is shows they can win the war and it will convince the north to keep fighting

the soldiers are lining the chatohucee

13th amendment

abolishes all form of slavery