Unit+Five+Terms+and+Questions

** Unit Five Terms and Questions—Enduring Vision and AMSCO texts **
 * Chapter 12 Terms—Enduring Vision **

Nat Turner's rebellion debate in the Virginia legislature over slavery, 1831-1832 three-fifths clause of the Constitution J.D.B. DeBow Tredegar Iron Works Whig party Democratic party Hinton R. Helper, //The Impending Crisis of the South// proslavery argument George Fitzhugh southern code of honor northern "character" Gabriel Prosser Denmark Vesey Henry "Box" Brown Frederick Douglass Harriet Tubman Josiah Henson Underground Railroad evangelical planters pidgin social structure yeoman


 * Chapter 12 Short Answer Questions: **
 * 1) Explain the differences between the Upper and Lower South. What tied them together?
 * 2) Explain why the Old South failed to industrialize.
 * 3) Summarize the proslavery argument developed by southern intellectuals to defend the "peculiar institution."
 * 4) Discuss the free black population of the Old South. How many were there by the eve of the Civil War? Where did most of them live? Under what economic and legal constraints did they exist?
 * 5) Describe the "furtive resistance" of slaves in the Old South.
 * AMSCO terms (Chapter 9) **

sectionalism urbanization Daniel Webster Industrial Revolution unions Irish potato famine German immigration Old Northwest immigration Nativists American party King Cotton “peculiar institution” free blacks/African Americans planters; poor whites; mountainpeople the West the frontier Great Plains environmental damage


 * Chapter 13 terms (Enduring Vision): **

Brigham Young and the Mormons Know-Nothing, or American, party George Henry Evans //Commonwealth// v. //Hunt// (1842) Spanish missions and presidios Stephen F. Austin and American //empresarios// in Texas Antonio López de Santa Anna the Alamo Sam Houston Overland Trail and the Donner party John Tyler John C. Calhoun Henry Clay James K. Polk John L. O'Sullivan and manifest destiny Zachary Taylor ("Old Rough and Ready") Winfield Scott John C. Frémont and the Bear Flag Republic Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Wilmot Proviso squatter or popular sovereignty Martin Van Buren and the Free Soil party freethinker proviso dark horse steerage secularize


 * Chapter 13 Short Answer Questions: **
 * 1) In the antebellum period, why did Irish and German immigrants generally favor the Democratic party over the Whig party?
 * 2) Why did Polk first demand all of the Oregon Territory from Britain and then agree to a compromise? What were the terms of that compromise?
 * 3) Why did many northern Democrats who were not abolitionists favor the Wilmot Proviso?
 * 4) What was the platform of the Free-Soil party in the election of 1848? How well did the party do in the election? Why was its showing significant?
 * 5) How were the clipper ships and the California gold rush related?
 * 6) How did the California gold rush bring to a head the issue of slavery in the Far West?
 * AMSCO Chapter 12 Terms: **

manifest destiny Texas—brief history of road to statehood Aristook War Webster-Ashburton Treaty Oregon territory “Fifty-four Forty or Fight!” Rio Grande: Nueches River Mexican War (1846-47) Stephen Kearney Franklin Pierce Ostend Manifesto Walker Expedition Clayton-Blwer Treaty Gadsden Purchase Great American Desert overland trails minig frontier gold rush; silver rush farming frontier urban frontier industrial technology Elias Howe Samuel F. B. Morse railroads: federal land grants foreign commerce; exports and imports Matthew C. Perry; japan Panic of 1857


 * Chapter 14 Terms (Enduring Vision): **

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry William H. Seward and irrepressible conflict popular (squatter) sovereignty Daniel Webster Henry Clay's omnibus bill and the Compromise of 1850 Millard Fillmore Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Anthony Burns, and personal-liberty laws Harriet Beecher Stowe, //Uncle Tom's Cabin// American (or Know-Nothing) party Stephen A. Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act free soil and free labor Gadsden Purchase John A. Quitman, William Walker, and filibustering Ostend Manifesto "Bleeding Kansas" Lecompton versus Topeka legislature and the Lecompton constitution sack of Lawrence and Pottawatomie massacre Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks John C. Frémont James Buchanan Roger B. Taney and //Dred Scott// v. //Sandford// Lincoln-Douglas debates and Douglas's Freeport Doctrine Panic of 1857 John C. Breckenridge John Bell and the Constitutional Union party Jefferson Davis and the Confederate States of America Crittenden compromise Fort Sumter omnibus bill doughface lynch stalwart naturalization referendum vigilantes


 * Chapter 14 Short Answer Questions: **
 * 1) Discuss the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. How did northerners attempt to prevent its enforcement?
 * 2) What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Why did it anger and alarm many northerners?
 * 3) What brought about civil war in Kansas in 1856?
 * 4) Explain Lincoln's position on slavery when he ran for the Senate in 1858 and for president in 1860.
 * 5) Explain the impact of John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid on the South's mood and thought.
 * 6) Discuss the political impact of the Confederacy's seizure of Fort Sumter.


 * AMSCO Chapter 13 Terms **

free-soil movement/Free Soil Party conscience Whigs “barnburners” popular sovereignty Lewis Cass Henry Clay Zachary Taylor Compromise of 1850 Stephen A. Douglas Millard Fillmore Fugitive Slave Law Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s Cabin HintonR. Helper, Impending Crisis of the South George Fitzhugh, Sociology of the South Franklin Pierce Kansas-Nebraska Act Know-Nothing party Republican party John C. Fremont James Buchanan New England Emigrant Aid Society “bleeding Kansas” John Brown; Pottawatomie Creek Sumner-Brooks incident Lecompton constitution Dred Scott v. Sandford Roger Taney Abraham Lincoln Lincoln-Douglas debates house-divided speech Freeport Doctrine Harper’s Ferry raid election of 1860 secession Crittenden compromise