History - pre civil war

• when was the antebellum period


  1815-1861
• what political side where the north on

  republicans
• what is another name for the north

  union
• what is another name for the south

  confederate
• what political side where the south on

  democracy
• did the north or the south want slaves

  south
• the norths economy was based on manufacturing and industrialisation
• the souths economy was based on agriculture and slavery'
• what were the soldiers of the north called

  Yankees
• what were the soldiers of the south called

  rebels
• the north had a larger population, more wealth, supplies, and weapons
• the south geologically had more swamps and marshes for agriculture
• what years were the westward expansion

  1803-1850
• what was the Louisiana purchase


  This monumental deal with France effectively doubled the size of the US. President Thomas Jefferson, a strong believer in Manifest Destiny (the idea that America was destined to stretch across the continent), saw the Louisiana Territory (land west of the Mississippi to the Rockies) as a treasure trove waiting to be explored and settled.
• was the new western land unclaimed

  no, the western land was home to native Americans who created wars when settlers tries to approach, so the US government forced them out
• what was the removal act of 1830


  This controversial act authorized the federal government to forcibly relocate Native American tribes east of the Mississippi River to designated territories in the West. This policy, known as the Trail of Tears, resulted in immense suffering and death for many Native American groups.\
• what was the gold rush in California 1848


  The discovery of gold in California in 1848 triggered a massive gold rush. Tens of thousands of people, spurred by dreams of riches, flooded into California, transforming it from a sparsely populated territory to a bustling state (1850).
• The South wanted to expand slavery into new territories, leading to increased tensions with the North over this issue. This would be a major factor in the Civil War.
• what was the manifest destiny


  manifest destiny was a powerful belief that emerged in the mid-1800s. It held that the United States had a God-given right, or manifest destiny, to expand westward across the North American continent.
• what was the three fifths clause


  This provision stated that the entirety of a state’s free population and 60 percent of its enslaved population would be counted in establishing the number of that state’s members in the House of Representatives and the size of its federal tax bill
• who proposed that Missouri should be a free state

  James Tallmadage
• what was the Tallmadge Amendment


  proposed that Missouri be admitted as a free state, that no more enslaved people be allowed to enter Missouri after it achieved statehood, and that all enslaved children born there after its admission be freed at age twenty-five. The amendment shifted the terms of debate by presenting slavery as an evil to be stopped.
• what was the souths reaction to the Tallmadge amendment

  Southerners in Congress rejected the amendment as an attempt to gradually abolish slavery—not just in Missouri but throughout the Union—by violating the property rights of slaveholders and their freedom to take their property wherever they wished.
• what was the Missouri Compromise 


  The Missouri Compromise of 1820 aimed to balance the power between slave and free states. Missouri entered as slave, Maine as free, and slavery was banned in the Louisiana Territory north of a set latitude line, except for Missouri. This fragile solution delayed a national crisis over slavery, but the deep North-South divide remained.
• was missouri a slave state

  yes
• when did the war with Mexico occur

  1846-1848
• what and when was The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed


  signed in February 1848 was a triumph for American expansion under which Mexico ceded nearly half its land to the United States.
• what was the border disagreement during the Mexican war

   US claimed Rio Grande, Mexico claimed Nueces River.
• what was the outcome of the border disagreement during the Mexican war

  Rio Grande was announced the border
• when did the civil war occur

  1861-1865
• in 1860 7 states suceeded from the union in retaliation to Abraham Lincon opposing slaved and formed the confederacy
• who was the confederate president to whom opposed Lincon

  Davis Jefferson
• when did the civil war begin

  April 12 1861
• what started the American civil war

  confederate rebels fired on fort Sumter in south Carolinas Charleston harbour
• when was the Missouri compromise

  1820
• when was the fugative slave act

  1850
• what was the fugitive slave act

  it required both north and south to co-operate and have citizens assist the recovery of fugitive slaves
• a lot of slaves stayed in Canada because Canada didn't reinforce the fugitive slave act
• what was the 'underground railway'

  it helped slaves escape the south to the north and was not a real railway but a network of people who worked to free slaves
• when was the kansas nebraska act

  1854