SS Midterm Review 1
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- no railroads, no factories, no navy
- South's weaknesses in the Civil War
- change in production from hand to machine, home to factory, and barter to money; happened in the North because of available rivers, population and land
- Industrial Revolution
- called the Anaconda Plan; wanted to gain control of the MIssissippi River, blockade the South, and caputre Richmond
- North's Civil War strategy
- Union gained control of the MIssissippi River with this battle
- Battle of Vicksburg
- the desire of the United States to expand to the Pacific Ocean; "sea to shining sea"
- manifest destiny
- began building the transcontiental railroad form the east
- Union Pacific
- first place where gold was discovered in the west; caused the Gold Rush
- Sutter's Mill
- an event that occurred during the reform age that looked to get more rights for women
- Seneca Falls Convention
- land set aside for native americans
- reservations
- population, factories, control of the navy, railroads
- North's strengths before the Civil War
- offense, little fighting skill
- North's weaknesses before the Civil War
- declared that all slaves were property and that the Missouri Compromise was unconsitutional
- Dred Scott Decision
- a part of the Compromise of 1850 that made it illegal to help runaway slaves
- Fugitive Slave Act
- allowing people in a territory to decide whether to have slavery or not; tested in Kanas
- popular sovereignty
- started in 1849 after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill
- Gold Rush
- rooted in religious ideas of equality and consitutional ideas of equality to say that slavery was wrong; some wanted to end slavery while others presented ideas like setting up a colony in LIberia
- antislavery movement
- the desire to get rid of something; in the 1800s abolitionists wanted to get rid of slavery
- abolition
- allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas; led to major disagreements between proslavery and antislavery forces
- Kansas Nebraska Act
- a dislike of immigrants; factory workers thought that immigrants took their jovs; formed a plitical party called the "Know Nothings'
- nativism
- "separate but equal"; allowed segregation in our country
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- wanted to tire the North out by staying defensive and depend on Europe for manufactured goods
- South's Civil War strategy
- first battle of the Civil War; showed that both sides needed training
- Battle of Bull Run
- paid less than men; wokred in many textile mills like the Lowell Mills
- Women Workers
- banned slavery in the US
- 13th amendment
- moved west in search of gold
- miners
- encouraged Native Americans to become farmers and accept Amerian ways (clothes, language, etc.)
- Dawes Act
- gave farmers 160 acres of land if they promised to farm it for 5 years
- Homestead Act
- a proposed colony where free blacks could settle in Africa; not very successful although it was created
- Liberia
- 1803 purchase of land from France; cost 15 million dollars; doubled the size of the US and gave the US control of the Port of New Orleans
- Louisiana Purchase
- turning point of the Civil War; only battle fought in the North
- Battle of Gettysburg
- allowed Missouri to become a slave state, Maine a free state, and drew a line separating slave states from free states at 36 30 N; worked to keep the number of free states and slave states equal
- MIssouri Compromise
- caused problems for the south because it made it difficult to collect taxes
- States' Rights
- homefield advantage, skilled shooters, good military leaders
- South's strengths before the Civil War
- granted citizenship to African Americans (and all ohter persons born in the US)
- 14th amendment
- began building the transcontinental railroad from the west
- Central Pacific
- tried to keep African Americans from voting by requiring payment to vote
- Poll Taxes
- a railroad that crossed the North American continent
- transcontinental railroad
- divided the south into five military districts; wanted to reunite the country but also get a little "revenge" on the south
- Radical Reconstruction
- the first industry affected by the Industrial Revolution; making cloth
- textile mills
- Chinese, Mexican, and Irish immigrants worked in the brutal conditions to build the transcontinental railroad
- immigrants on the railroad
- taxes on imported goods; supported by the North before the Civil War
- tariffs
- encouraged segregation
- Jim Crow Laws
- tried to keep African Americans from voting by requiring reading and writing tests
- Literacy Tests
- invented by Eli Whitney to clean the seeds from the cotton plant; made plantation farming in the south even more profitable
- cotton gin
- survived life in the plains by using the buffalo for many things
- Plains Indians
- drove in the golden spike connecting the transcontinental railroad
- Leland Stanford
- worked for less than Americans
- Immigrant Factory Workers
- Lincoln's decree that all slaves in states still rebelling were freed; used as a strategy to end the South's cotton diplomacy
- Emancipation Proclamation
- allowed California to be a free state; allowed the Mexican Cession to use popular sovereignty; outlawed the slave trade in Washington DC; enacted the Fugitive Slave Law
- Compromise of 1850
- a network of hiding places and routes to the north that led slaves out of slavery and to freedom; most famous conductor was Harriet Tubman
- underground railroad
- where Lee surrendered and the war ended
- Appomattox Courthouse
- land grants and money given to railroad companies by the US government
- subsidy
- separating things that are different
- Segregation
- brought the idea of the factory to the United States
- Samuel Slater
- a speech given by Abe Lincoln warning of the problems a nation could face if it continued to be half slave and half free
- "House Divided"
- having a loyalty to your part or section rather than your country as a whole
- sectionalism
- granted suffrage (voting) to African American men
- 15th amendment
- place where the transcontinental railroad met
- Promontory Point
- called the 10% plan; wanted to reunite and reubild the country quickly
- LIncoln's Reconstruciton Plan
- written by Harriet Beecher Stowe; exposed the evils of slavery and encouraged the abolition movement
- Uncle Tom's Cabin