Exam 3 chapter 12-15
(Q002) The American Colonization Society called for
a gradual end to slavery and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States.
(Q018) The idea of "perfectionism" was the view that
both individuals and society at large can be capable of indefinite improvement.
(Q030) The largest effort at educational institution building before the Civil War came in the movement to establish
common schools.
(Q008) Robert Owen's utopian society promoted this idea to allow workers to receive the full value of their labor.
communitarianism
(Q035) Free blacks drew upon what political office to justify "birthright citizenship"?
the President
(Q006) Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China
tripled
Fugitive Slave Act
1850 law that gave the federal government authority in cases involving runaway slaves; aroused considerable opposition in the North.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 law sponsored by Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas to allow settlers in newly organized territories north of the Missouri border to decide the slavery issue for themselves; fury over the resulting repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 led to violence in Kansas and to the formation of the Republican Party.
Dred Scott v. Stanford
1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision in which Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories, on the grounds that such a prohibition would violate the Fifth Amendment rights of slaveholders, and that no black person could be a citizen of the United States.
Homestead Act
1862 law that authorized Congress to grant 160 acres of public land to a western settler, who had to live on the land for five years to establish title.
Ex parte Milligan
1866 Supreme Court case that declared it unconstitutional to bring accused persons before military tribunals where civil courts were operating.
Reconstruction Act
1867 law that established temporary military governments in ten Confederate states—excepting Tennessee—and required that the states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and permit freedmen to vote.
crop lien
Credit extended by merchants to tenants based on their future crops; under this system, high interest rates and the uncertainties of farming often led to inescapable debts.
Bargain of 1877
Deal made by a Republican and Democratic special congressional commission to resolve the disputed presidential election of 1876; Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, who had lost the popular vote, was declared the winner in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from involvement in politics in the South, marking the end of Reconstruction.
Fort Sumter
First battle of the Civil War, in which the federal fort in Charleston (South Carolina) Harbor was captured by the Confederates on April 14, 1861, after two days of shelling.
(Q019) America's first black newspaper was called
Freedom's Journal.
Sanitary Fairs
Fund-raising bazaars led by women on behalf of Civil War soldiers. The fairs offered items such as uniforms and banners, as well as other emblems of war.
Ku Klux Klan
Group organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866 to terrorize former slaves who voted and held political offices during Reconstruction; a revived organization in the 1910s and 1920s that stressed white, Anglo-Saxon, fundamentalist Protestant supremacy; revived a third time to fight the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the South.
utopian communities
Ideal communities that offered innovative social and economic relationships to those who were interested in achieving salvation.
Black Codes
Laws passed from 1865 to 1866 in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves; to nullify the codes, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment.
(Q032) In her 1845 work Woman in the Nineteenth Century, this writer sought to apply to women the transcendentalist idea that freedom meant a quest for personal development.
Margaret Fuller
Know-Nothing Party
Nativist, anti-Catholic third party organized in 1854 in reaction to large-scale German and Irish immigration; the party's only presidential candidate was Millard Fillmore in 1856.
Free Soil Party
Political organization formed in 1848 to oppose slavery in the territory acquired in the Mexican War; nominated Martin Van Buren for president in 1848. By 1854 most of the party's members had joined the Republican Party.
Redeemers
Post-Civil War Democratic leaders who supposedly saved the South from Yankee domination and preserved the primarily rural economy.
(Q004) Stretching from Maine to Kentucky, this was the most successful of the religious communities in the mid-1800s.
Shakers
Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Site of abolitionist John Brown's failed raid on the federal arsenal, October 16-17, 1859; Brown became a martyr to his cause after his capture and execution.
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
Site of the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee to Union general Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, marking the end of the Civil War.
"the contrabands"
Slaves who sought refuge in Union military camps or who lived in areas of the Confederacy under Union control.
communitarianism
Social reform movement of the nineteenth century driven by the belief that by establishing small communities based on common ownership of property, a less competitive and less individualistic society could be developed.
scalawags
Southern white Republicans—some former Unionists—who supported Reconstruction governments.
common schools
Tax-supported state schools of the early nineteenth century open to all children.
feminism
Term that entered the lexicon in the early twentieth century to describe the movement for full equality for women, in political, social, and personal life.
moral suasion
The abolitionist strategy that sought to end slavery by persuading both slaveowners and complicit northerners that the institution was evil.
gold rush
The massive migration of Americans into California territory in the late 1840s and 1850s in pursuit of gold, which was discovered there in 1848.
Second American Revolution
The transformation of American government and society brought about by the Civil War.
(Q056) Many Americans saw the reform impulse as an attack on their own freedom, particularly the temperance movement.
True
sharecropping
Type of farm tenancy that developed after the Civil War in which landless workers—often former slaves—farmed land in exchange for farm supplies and a share of the crop.
"Bleeding Kansas"
Violence between pro- and antislavery settlers in the Kansas Territory, 1856.
Tenure of Office Act
1867 law that required the president to obtain Senate approval to remove any official whose appointment had also required Senate approval; President Andrew Johnson's violation of the law by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton led to Johnson's impeachment.
Fourteenth Amendment
1868 constitutional amendment that guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, in words similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
temperance movement
A widespread reform movement, led by militant Christians, focused on reducing the use of alcoholic beverages.
Liberty Party
Abolitionist political party that nominated James G. Birney for president in 1840 and 1844; merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848.
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
Along with the Fourteenth Amendment, legislation that guaranteed the rights of citizenship to former slaves.
"King Cotton diplomacy"
An attempt during the Civil War by the South to encourage British intervention by banning cotton exports.
Dorothea Dix
An important figure in increasing the public's awareness of the plight of the mentally ill. After a two-year investigation of the treatment of the mentally ill in Massachusetts, she presented her findings and won the support of leading reformers. She eventually convinced twenty states to reform their treatment of the mentally ill.
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle fought in southern Pennsylvania, July 1-3, 1863; the Confederate defeat and the simultaneous loss at Vicksburg marked the military turning point of the Civil War.
impeachment
Bringing charges against a public official; for example, the House of Representatives can impeach a president for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" by majority vote, and after the trial the Senate can remove the president by a vote of two-thirds. Two presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, have been impeached and tried before the Senate; neither was convicted.
second Battle of Bull Run
Civil War engagement that took place one year after the first Battle of Bull Run, on August 29-30, 1862, during which Confederates captured the federal supply depot at Manassas Junction, Virginia, and forced Union troops back to Washington.
New Harmony
Community founded in Indiana by British industrialist Robert Owen in 1825; the short-lived New Harmony Community of Equality was one of the few nineteenth-century communal experiments not based on religious ideology.
Compromise of 1850
Complex compromise devised by Senator Henry Clay that admitted California as a free state, included a stronger fugitive slave law, and delayed determination of the slave status of the New Mexico and Utah territories.
Thirteenth Amendment
Constitutional amendment adopted in 1865 that irrevocably abolished slavery throughout the United States.
Fifteenth Amendment
Constitutional amendment ratified in 1870, which prohibited states from discriminating in voting privileges on the basis of race.
Mexican War
Controversial war with Mexico for control of California and New Mexico, 1846-1848; the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo fixed the border at the Rio Grande and extended the United States to the Pacific coast, annexing more than a half-million square miles of Mexican territory.
Emancipation Proclamation
Declaration issued by President Abraham Lincoln; the preliminary proclamation on September 22, 1862, freed the slaves in areas under Confederate control as of January 1, 1863, the date of the final proclamation, which also authorized the enrollment of black soldiers into the Union army.
carpetbaggers
Derisive term for northern emigrants who participated in the Republican governments of the Reconstruction South.
(Q011) This first martyr of the antislavery movement was killed by a mob in Illinois while defending his press.
Elijah P. Lovejoy
(Q041) The American Temperance Society, founded in 1826, directed its efforts to redeeming habitual drunkards, not the occasional social drinker.
False
(Q043) Horace Mann argued that it was not a school's responsibility to reinforce social stability by rescuing students from the influence of parents who failed to instill the proper discipline in their children.
False
transcontinental railroad
First line across the continent from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, established in 1869 with the linkage of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory, Utah.
American Anti-Slavery Society
Founded in 1833, the organization that sought an immediate end to slavery and the establishment of equality for black Americans. It split in 1840 after disputes about the role of women within the organization and other issues.
Radical Republicans
Group within the Republican Party in the 1850s and 1860s that advocated strong resistance to the expansion of slavery, opposition to compromise with the South in the secession crisis of 1860-1861, emancipation and arming of black soldiers during the Civil War, and equal civil and political rights for blacks during Reconstruction.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel that popularized the abolitionist position.
women suffrage
Movement to give women the right to vote through a constitutional amendment, spearheaded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's National Woman Suffrage Association.
Battle of Antietam
One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought to a standoff on September 17, 1862, in western Maryland.
American Colonization Society
Organized in 1816 to encourage colonization of free blacks to Africa; West African nation of Liberia founded in 1822 to serve as a homeland for them.
(Q015) Which of the following was a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?
Owen promoted communitarianism as a way of making sure workers received the full value of their labor.
Ten-Percent Plan of Reconstruction
President Lincoln's proposal for Reconstruction, issued in 1863, in which southern states would rejoin the Union if 10 percent of the 1860 electorate signed loyalty pledges, accepted emancipation, and had received presidential pardons.
popular sovereignty
Program that allowed settlers in a disputed territory to decide the slavery issue for themselves; most closely associated with Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.
Wilmot Proviso
Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War; defeated by southern senators, led by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, in 1846 and 1847.
Wade-Davis Bill
Radical Republicans' 1864 plan for Reconstruction that required loyalty oaths, abolition of slavery, repudiation of war debts, and denial of political rights to high-ranking Confederate officials; President Lincoln refused to sign the bill.
the Freedmen's Bureau
Reconstruction agency established in 1865 to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, health care, and landowning.
Shakers
Religious sect founded by Mother Ann Lee in England. The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing settled in Watervliet, New York, in 1774, and subsequently established eighteen additional communes in the Northeast, Indiana, and Kentucky.
gag rule
Rule adopted by House of Representatives in 1836 prohibiting consideration of abolitionist petitions; opposition, led by former president John Quincy Adams, succeeded in having it repealed in 1844.
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Series of senatorial campaign debates in 1858 focusing on the issue of slavery in the territories; held in Illinois between Republican Abraham Lincoln, who made a national reputation for himself, and incumbent Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas, who managed to hold on to his seat.
(Q001) In the early decades of the 1800s, the population living in Texas who were non-Indian and of Spanish origin were called
Tejanos
Tejanos
Texas settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent.
Texas revolt
The 1830s rebellion of residents of the territory of Texas—many of them American emigrants—against Mexican control of the region.
Sea Islands experiment
The 1861 pre-Reconstruction social experiment that involved converting slave plantations into places where former slaves could work for wages or own land. Former slaves also received education and access to improved shelter and food.
the Slave Power
The Republican and abolitionist term for proslavery dominance of southern and national governments.
Battle of Vicksburg
The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Ulysses S. Grant's army on July 4, 1863, after two months of siege; a turning point in the war because it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
first Battle of Bull Run
The first land engagement of the Civil War, which took place on July 21, 1861, at Manassas Junction, Virginia, and at which Union troops quickly retreated.
Navajo's Long Walk
The forced removal of 8,000 Navajo from their lands by Union forces to a reservation in the 1860s.
perfectionism
The idea that social ills once considered incurable could in fact be eliminated, popularized by the religious revivalism of the nineteenth century.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
The last piece of Reconstruction legislation, which outlawed racial discrimination in places of public accommodation such as hotels and theaters. Many parts of it were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1883.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
The military leader who, in 1834, seized political power in Mexico and became a dictator. In 1835, Texans rebelled against him, and he led his army to Texas to crush their rebellion. He captured the mission called the Alamo and killed all of its defenders, which inspired Texans to continue their resistance and Americans to volunteer to fight for Texas. The Texans captured Santa Anna during a surprise attack, and he bought his freedom by signing a treaty recognizing Texas's independence.
Gadsden Purchase
Thirty thousand square miles in present-day Arizona and New Mexico bought by Congress from Mexico in 1853 primarily for the Southern Pacific Railroad's transcontinental route.
Enforcment Act
Three laws passed in 1870 and 1871 that tried to eliminate the Ku Klux Klan by outlawing it and other such terrorist societies; the laws allowed the president to deploy the army for that purpose.
Brook Farm
Transcendentalist commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, populated from 1841 to 1847 principally by writers (Nathaniel Hawthorne, for one) and other intellectuals.
(Q046) In the absence of a strong national government, American social and political activity was organized through voluntary associations such as churches, fraternal societies, and political clubs.
True
(Q054) Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female abolitionist orators in the country during her time.
True
Commodore Matthew Perry
U.S. naval officer who negotiated the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854. That treaty was the first step in starting a political and commercial relationship between the United States and Japan.
Oneida
Utopian community founded in 1848; the perfectionist religious group practiced "complex marriage" under leader John Humphrey Noyes.
"gentlemen of property and standing"
Well-to-do merchants who often had commercial ties to the South and resisted abolitionism, occasionally inciting violence against its adherents.
(Q008) The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called
manifest destiny
(Q010) "Gentlemen of property and standing" were
merchants with close commercial ties to the South.
(Q027) Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of
more humane treatment of the insane.
(Q005) There were calls by some expansionists for the United States to annex all of Mexico, yet the movement failed because
of the fear that the nation could not assimilate the large non-white Catholic population.
(Q007) Which of the following was an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?
public meetings
(Q038) Free blacks were regularly excluded from
steamships
(Q033) According to Pauline Davis in 1853, to emancipate women from "bondage," women must
go to work outside the home.
