APUSH : 5 1844-1877

manifest destiny

belif it was americas god given duty to colonize from E coast to W coast

mexican american war

1846-1848, started over boundary dispute near rio grande riv., the alimo happened, war ended w/ treaty of Guadalupe-hildalgo

mexican american war results

us gained arizona, new mexico, utah, nevada, california

compromise of 1850

california entered us as free state, popular sovereignty for utah & new mexico, banned slave trade in dc, fugitive slave laws strengthened

continued debates over slavery post comp. of 1850

abolitionists : underground railroad, uncle toms cabin

southern defenders : sociology of the south+other argument essays

kansas Nebraska act

1854, popular sovereignty in kansas & new mexico=bleeding kansas within the territorys and on senate floor beating (brooks v sumner)

dred scott v stanford

1857, scott (slave) sued for his freedom after being in a free state w/ his master, ruling was black ppl werent citizens=had no constitutional rights

john brown in harpers ferry

lead a raid in Harpers ferry to start slave rebellion, captured+executed, considered a martyr of abolition

causes of civil war

slavery issues, debate over protective tariffs and states rights, election of lincoln(woukd he ban slavery???) = south secedes

confederacy in civil war

better generals, high commitment/dedication to their cause

battle of gettysburg

union in civil war

better infrastructure+more capital, higher population, lincolns leadership

lincolns presidency

1861-1865, suspended habeas corpus in boarder states, emancipation proclamation (south cant get help from europe)

reconstruction goals

aimed to bring former confederate states back into the union

reconstruction plans

controlled by radicals,

successes in reconstruction

freedmens bureau (gave food, shelter, education to newly free black ppl), 13 14 15 free citizens vote, black ppl elected to congress

failure of reconstruction

slavery replaced by sharecropping & tenant farming, implemented poll tax & literacy tests to vote, black codes+jim crow laws, kkk + other groups

compromise of 1877

troops over-seeing reconstruction removed from south, ended reconstruction