History Unit 5

As a result of the region being seen as undesirable, this was one of the last strongholds of Native Americans

The Great Plains

both Great Britain & the US had interest in Oregon

1818: Joint occupation

Oregon Dispute

The line separating British and American territory of Oregon

49th Parallel

moving from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time

Nomadic

recognized The Black Hills as belonging to the Sioux (another name for Lakota)

Treaty of Fort Laramie

The conflict because of “Off the Reservation” policy of the US Army→ any Indian not on the reservation (land the government ordered NAs to stay on) would be considered “hostile.”

1874 Battle of Little Bighorn

the leader of Lakota

Sitting Bull

Policy saying any Indian not on the reservation (land the government ordered NAs to stay on) would be considered “hostile.” 

“Off the Reservation” policy

General in the Battle of Little Bighorn

General Custer

The massacre that Sitting Bull died, thousands of the NAs killed.

1890 Wounded Knee Massacre

The other NA tribe involve in the Wounded Knee Massacre; tried to make peace

 Big Foot

 a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

Euphemism

Slaveholders with 100+ slaves

The Planter Aristocracy

One of the very less people that has source written down about slavery. “Middle Passage Account”

Olauduh Equiano

White helpers

• Blacksmith

• Violent

Gabriel Prosser

Motto for Gabriel Prosser

Death or Liberty

Person Gabriel and his team want to capture

James Monroe

The owner of the slave that leak Gabriel’s paln

 Moshy Sheppard

• Haiti

• Epilepsy

• lottery

• Violent

Denmark Vesey

Where Denmark Vesey’s first sold?

Haiti

Disease that Denmark Vesey had?

epilepsy

Church that Denmark Vesey joined?

African Methodist Episcopal Church

Song that possibly inspired by Denmark Vesey?

“Go Down, Moses”

• 3 visions

• eclipse

• violent

Nat Turner

After Nat Turner’s kill, the whites retaliated while killed close to 200 innocent blacks 

Virginia Retaliation

Drawing depicting Nat Turner’s kill

Horrid Massacre In Virginia

• white

• male

• House on fire

• Believe black & white should be fully equal and being meshed together

• Peaceful

William Lloyd Garrison

The news paper that William Lloyd Garrison publicated

The Liberator Newspaper

The anti-slavery organization William Lloyd Garrison helped form

“The American Anti-Slavery Society”

• Slave into freedom

• male

• Fought for black rights during the civil war

  • 54th MA colored unit → made of African-Americans

• peaceful

Frederick Douglass

The church that Frederick Douglass is the minister

American Methodist Church in NYC

• Slave into freedom

• female

• Thought women rights should proceed with the abolition of slavery

• Peaceful

Sojourner Truth

The publication of Sojourner Truth?

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

The original name of Sojourner Truth?

Isabella Baumfree

• white

• female

• author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• peaceful

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The super famous book Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The First organized emancipation movement, which goal is to return freed slaves to Africa to a land in West Africa called Liberia, meaning liberty.

American Colonization Society

Guy who ran an anti-slavery newspaper in Illinois. Killed by an Illinois mob for his beliefs.

Elijah P. Lovejoy

“tabled” any anti-slavery petitions in the House of Representatives, meaning any anti-slavery petitions would not be addressed

The Gag Rule

• Part of the Compromise of 1850

• Law requires all escaped slaves upon capture be returned to their masters.

Fugitive Slave Act

A series of violent confrontations from 1854-1861 due to the debate over the legality of slavery in Kansas.

Bleeding Kansas

• Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowing settlers to determine the legality of slavery through popular sovereignty

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The two groups in the dispute in Bleeding Kansas

• “Border Ruffians” from Missouri — vote for slavery illegally

• “Jay hawkers” from Kansas — anti-slavery

The senator and the representative fighting in the senate Chamber….

Violence in the Senate, 1856

The two people in the Violence in the Senate, 1856

Senator Charles Sumner

Representative Preslon Brooks

Led by a Radical abolitionist, raid on federal arsenal.

John Brown’s Raid

Supreme Court Case between a slave and his owner….

Dred Scott V. Sandford

The awesome conductor of the Underground Railroad!

Harriet Tubman

Publication of Frederick Douglass?

The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass